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Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods by Edward Tyson Allen
Edward Tyson Allen was an American conservationist. He was a forester and manager of the Western Forestry and Conservation Association.
Background
Edward Tyson Allen was born on December 26, 1875 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. He was the youngest of the three sons of Oscar Dana Allen and Fidelia Roberts (Totman) Allen. His father, whose family had deep roots in New England, was professor of metallurgy and of analytical chemistry at Yale. When Oscar Allen retired in 1884, the family moved to southern California and, in 1888, to the state of Washington, where they took up a wilderness homestead near Mount Rainier. It was here that young Allen learned his forest lore.
Education
Allen attended public schools until the age of thirteen. Thereafter he was tutored by his father, from whom he received an excellent education in the natural sciences, especially botany.
Career
In 1898 Allen worked as a reporter for the Tacoma Ledger, and was appointed forest ranger for the national forest reserves in the Pacific Northwest. The following year he joined the Bureau of Forestry--later renamed the Forest Service--in the United States Department of Agriculture and began a close association with the head of the bureau, Gifford Pinchot. He was appointed California State Forester in 1905 on Pinchot's recommendation.
In 1906 he returned to the Forest Service and over the next three years was an inspector and district forester in charge of the national forests in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska.
Allen left public service in 1909 to become forester and manager of the Western Forestry and Conservation Association. Composed chiefly of private forest-fire patrol associations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and California, it became one of the most dynamic private forestry groups in the West. Except for brief service during World War I as a member of the lumber committee of the Council of National Defense, which had jurisdiction over the purchase of lumber for war uses, Allen remained with the association until his retirement in 1932.
In his long career Allen participated in almost every aspect of forestry. At various times he was a consultant to the Department of Agriculture, the Treasury Department, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of the Interior. He was for many years one of the chief spokesmen for the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, serving both on its board of directors and as its counsel. He published numerous articles in popular magazines and trade journals and was an expert on the life cycle of the Western hemlock.
Allen died of cancer at the age of sixty-six in Portland, Oregon, where he had made his home.
Achievements
Allen is best known for determining national forest boundaries in vast regions of the West and was one of the first persons in the nation to hold a position of California State Forester. He was one of the pioneers of federal and state forestry programs, who drafted a number of state forestry codes and drew up the first contract for the sale of standing timber in the national forests, a document that became a model for future timber contracts, and wrote the first authoritative manual on the administration of the national forest reserves. Allen also helped to found the Western Forestry and Conservation Association.
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Politics
Allen frequently acted as a mediator between the federal government and the lumber industry in disputes over excess profits taxes and governmental regulation of forest practices, and he acquired expert knowledge in forest economics and taxation. A strong advocate of the policy of "cooperation" in national forestry, Allen believed that timber owners could be educated to the advantages of scientific forestry and would adopt sound management practices out of a sense of enlightened self-interest. Allen supported the efforts of William B. Greeley, head of the Forest Service from 1920 to 1928, to implement cooperative forestry policies.
Membership
Allen was a charter member (1900) of the Society of American Foresters and member of the National Forestry Program Committee.
Connections
On October 20, 1902, Allen married Matilda Price Riley of Norbeck, Maryland, who wrote fiction under the pseudonym "Maryland Allen. " They had two daughters, Olmsted Tyson and Barbara. After the death of his first wife in 1927, he married Mildred Grudolf-Smith on February 18, 1928.
