Person Record

Metadata

Name

Koch, Elers

Born

1880/12/12

Birthplace

Bozeman Montana

Education

Graduated Montana State College 1901Bozeman, MT
Master Degrees in Forestry, Yale University, 1903; two year course at Yale

Notes

1930 - Family cabin at Seeley Lake next to the cabin the Reverend John Maclean family. Peter learne fly fishing from John Maclean. Koch family (just the boys?) traveled to and back each summer to the cabin by horses. Two day try. The boys (no adults) took 2 week pack each summer, usually east in the Bob Marshall
Stanley at age 11 (1926) rode on a horse 100 miles from family cabin on Flathead lake to Boy Scout camp at Seeley lake. On arrival he was told that he was too young for Scout camp, but he was allowed to stay.

Occupation

1903Master Degrees in Forestry, Yale Universitytwo year course at Yale

1899 - Bureau of Forestry summer seasonal: Worked near Mt Rainer Washington studying Douglas fir. First met Gifford Pinchot.
1903 - Bureau of Forestry Forest Reserve suitability studies forest land in Shasta, California and Gallatin, Lewis & Clark and Beaverhead areas of Montana.
1905 - Forest Inspector
1906 - Forest Supervisor for the combined Lolo, Missoula and Bitterroot Forest Reserve and then National Forests, Missoula MT
1918 - Washington Office assignment
1919 - Chief of the Fire Division, Northern Region, Missoula MT
1921 - Assistant Regional Forester and Chief of Timber Management, Missoula, MT
1940 - elected Fellow, Society of American Foresters
1944 - retired from Forest Service

Spouse

Gerda, Married 1905

Children

Stanley born 1915, died June 1944 on an LST at Normandy Beach; Thomas - born 1917, retired in 1997 in Hamilton MT after a career as lawyer; Peter - born 1920 Graduated Montana State College at Bozeman in engineering. PhD in Wood Science for Univ. of Washington. Career Forest Service scientists in wood technology