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Show SHERMAN TO VISIT ALASKA Former District Forester j Here to Inspect Service Activities J K A. Sherman, former district for-Ir'-.er of District I with headquarters in Ogden, now associate I'nlted St itea I forester at Washington. -vill leave j i jW nahinsrton July 10. for a two months' tri 'lirough AlMka. While in the I for norUi Mr. Shermun will Inspect title work of the forestn- service In peni rnl and rilso study various depart-mental depart-mental problems, It Is stated. At Juneau, C. A. Flory, district forester, for-ester, w ill meet Mr. Sherman To-j gather the' will travel to aides and i thence to Fairbanks by auto at which , place they will Inspect the tfrlcultur- 1 al experiment station. F'rom Kair- ! j banks, they will go to Seward nnd Cor- dtva, via the new rrovernment rail-troad, rail-troad, to inspect tho Chuaach forest j arid the forest r.r Katalla and the, I Prince William Bound iecion. Mr Sherman will .study the pro-I gram of road construction in the na-J Itipnal forest6, the relationship thai the. appropriation for rinds in the national I , forests should bear to roads in other I prirta of the territory, the possibilities I , pj organized fire protection foi the unreserved forests of the Interior of i Alaska, questions of boundary adjustments adjust-ments m ('hugach and around towns and villages In Touut.ls-. also the re- , lationshlp of the nntlonal forests to! the freneral tie velopnient of territory. I He will also devote some time to the! .study of problems affecting the de- I partment as a whole |