University Invites Israeli Soil Conservationist-forestry Expert to Work in U.S. Southwest

A leading Israeli soil conservationist and forestry expert has come here on the invitation of Colorado State University to apply his knowledge and experience in Israel to the development of new forms of plant life and afforestation in the arid regions of southwestern United States, the Jewish National Fund reported today. Dr. Israel Gindel, who beads the division of forest ecology at the Volcani Institute of Agricultural Research in Israel and visits the University of Florence, Italy, regularly where he is professor of forest research, will conduct a research program at the Colorado school’s Forestry College. He will specialize in the development of new ecological and arid zone forestry techniques. (Ecology is the study of life forms in relation to their environment.) He established the first forest research laboratory in Israel at the invitation of the Jewish Agency and the JNF.