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Josef Brunner (standing left), Frank F. Liebig (next to Brunner) and S. A. Silcox (standing, far right) at meeting of Blackfeet National Forest personnel, Point of Rocks, MT, 1910. Brunner, a Bavarian, was hired in 1909 by A.D. Hopkins, Chief of Forest Insect Investigations, Washington, DC, to investigate forest insects in the northern Rocky Mountains. Silcox was equivalent of Regional Forester at the time and later became Chief Forester. The position of Brunner and Silcox at opposite sides in the photo is not coincidental. Brunner was a temperamental person continuously at odds with the Forest Service over the relative importance of fire and insects. Besides, Silcox didn't like tobacco smoke! Liebig worked for Brunner briefly; Brunner said of him: "Liebig cannot be learned anything." (Furniss 2003, Fig. 6).

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