Obituary- Published in The Fresno Bee, Fresno CA , 29 Jan 1974 Tuesday page 32.--Cecil Metcalf, former Forestry Official Dies at 77- Cecil E. Metcalf, who crusaded against encroachment of subdivision development on Sierra foothill lands he had protected from forest fire for nearly four decades, died Monday night in a Fresno nursing home . He was 77.
Metcalf had served in the Fresno County Civil Service Commission , as chief deputy state forester and as vice president of the state Retired Public Employee Association.
He was a native of Michigan , whose family moved to Lindsay in 1911. He attended attended Lindsay High School before the family moved to Kerman, Fresno and Dunuba.
Metcalf married Leota Vansickle in 1917 and they established a cattle ranch at Sand Creek in Fresno County.
He began his forestry career as a volunteer fire warden in southeastern Fresno CO in 1920. He went to work for the state in 1926, helping contrlo Tulare County's big Dry Creek and Bear Mountain fires.
He helped erect the lookout tower on Bear Mountain near Dunlap in 1925.
He became a state forest ranger for Tulare County in 1927 and worked in numerous positions in the state division of Forestry.
When he retired in 1962, Metcalf was deputy state forester in charge of the San Joaquin Valley.
He also had established a reputation as a conservatist. As early as 1948. Metcalf was actively organizing forestry officials, loggers and recreationists in an effort to save forest land.
In the years after his retirement, the Dunlap area rancher many times appeared before the Fresno County Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors to protect subdivision proposals .
The Metcalfs moved to Clovis several years ago. They were members of the Memorial Methodist Church in Clovis.
Metcalf entered the nursing home 2 weeks before his death.
Metcalf was also a past president of the California Rural Fire Association and was a member of the California Farm Bureau and the American Association of Retired Persons.
He is survived by his widow and one son Ralph of Orange Cove; 2 daughters Mrs. Jeanette Bigard of San Jose and Mrs. Mayree Harbin of Fresno; six grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.
Hadley Funeral Chapel in Visalia has charge of funeral arrangements.
Metcalf had served in the Fresno County Civil Service Commission , as chief deputy state forester and as vice president of the state Retired Public Employee Association.
He was a native of Michigan , whose family moved to Lindsay in 1911. He attended attended Lindsay High School before the family moved to Kerman, Fresno and Dunuba.
Metcalf married Leota Vansickle in 1917 and they established a cattle ranch at Sand Creek in Fresno County.
He began his forestry career as a volunteer fire warden in southeastern Fresno CO in 1920. He went to work for the state in 1926, helping contrlo Tulare County's big Dry Creek and Bear Mountain fires.
He helped erect the lookout tower on Bear Mountain near Dunlap in 1925.
He became a state forest ranger for Tulare County in 1927 and worked in numerous positions in the state division of Forestry.
When he retired in 1962, Metcalf was deputy state forester in charge of the San Joaquin Valley.
He also had established a reputation as a conservatist. As early as 1948. Metcalf was actively organizing forestry officials, loggers and recreationists in an effort to save forest land.
In the years after his retirement, the Dunlap area rancher many times appeared before the Fresno County Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors to protect subdivision proposals .
The Metcalfs moved to Clovis several years ago. They were members of the Memorial Methodist Church in Clovis.
Metcalf entered the nursing home 2 weeks before his death.
Metcalf was also a past president of the California Rural Fire Association and was a member of the California Farm Bureau and the American Association of Retired Persons.
He is survived by his widow and one son Ralph of Orange Cove; 2 daughters Mrs. Jeanette Bigard of San Jose and Mrs. Mayree Harbin of Fresno; six grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.
Hadley Funeral Chapel in Visalia has charge of funeral arrangements.
Obituary- Published in The Fresno Bee, Fresno CA , 29 Jan 1974 Tuesday page 32.--Cecil Metcalf, former Forestry Official Dies at 77- Cecil E. Metcalf, who crusaded against encroachment of subdivision development on Sierra foothill lands he had protected from forest fire for nearly four decades, died Monday night in a Fresno nursing home . He was 77.
Metcalf had served in the Fresno County Civil Service Commission , as chief deputy state forester and as vice president of the state Retired Public Employee Association.
He was a native of Michigan , whose family moved to Lindsay in 1911. He attended attended Lindsay High School before the family moved to Kerman, Fresno and Dunuba.
Metcalf married Leota Vansickle in 1917 and they established a cattle ranch at Sand Creek in Fresno County.
He began his forestry career as a volunteer fire warden in southeastern Fresno CO in 1920. He went to work for the state in 1926, helping contrlo Tulare County's big Dry Creek and Bear Mountain fires.
He helped erect the lookout tower on Bear Mountain near Dunlap in 1925.
He became a state forest ranger for Tulare County in 1927 and worked in numerous positions in the state division of Forestry.
When he retired in 1962, Metcalf was deputy state forester in charge of the San Joaquin Valley.
He also had established a reputation as a conservatist. As early as 1948. Metcalf was actively organizing forestry officials, loggers and recreationists in an effort to save forest land.
In the years after his retirement, the Dunlap area rancher many times appeared before the Fresno County Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors to protect subdivision proposals .
The Metcalfs moved to Clovis several years ago. They were members of the Memorial Methodist Church in Clovis.
Metcalf entered the nursing home 2 weeks before his death.
Metcalf was also a past president of the California Rural Fire Association and was a member of the California Farm Bureau and the American Association of Retired Persons.
He is survived by his widow and one son Ralph of Orange Cove; 2 daughters Mrs. Jeanette Bigard of San Jose and Mrs. Mayree Harbin of Fresno; six grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.
Hadley Funeral Chapel in Visalia has charge of funeral arrangements.
Metcalf had served in the Fresno County Civil Service Commission , as chief deputy state forester and as vice president of the state Retired Public Employee Association.
He was a native of Michigan , whose family moved to Lindsay in 1911. He attended attended Lindsay High School before the family moved to Kerman, Fresno and Dunuba.
Metcalf married Leota Vansickle in 1917 and they established a cattle ranch at Sand Creek in Fresno County.
He began his forestry career as a volunteer fire warden in southeastern Fresno CO in 1920. He went to work for the state in 1926, helping contrlo Tulare County's big Dry Creek and Bear Mountain fires.
He helped erect the lookout tower on Bear Mountain near Dunlap in 1925.
He became a state forest ranger for Tulare County in 1927 and worked in numerous positions in the state division of Forestry.
When he retired in 1962, Metcalf was deputy state forester in charge of the San Joaquin Valley.
He also had established a reputation as a conservatist. As early as 1948. Metcalf was actively organizing forestry officials, loggers and recreationists in an effort to save forest land.
In the years after his retirement, the Dunlap area rancher many times appeared before the Fresno County Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors to protect subdivision proposals .
The Metcalfs moved to Clovis several years ago. They were members of the Memorial Methodist Church in Clovis.
Metcalf entered the nursing home 2 weeks before his death.
Metcalf was also a past president of the California Rural Fire Association and was a member of the California Farm Bureau and the American Association of Retired Persons.
He is survived by his widow and one son Ralph of Orange Cove; 2 daughters Mrs. Jeanette Bigard of San Jose and Mrs. Mayree Harbin of Fresno; six grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.
Hadley Funeral Chapel in Visalia has charge of funeral arrangements.
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