322 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Act entitled ‘An Act to repeal the timber-culture laws, and for 
other purposes,’ approved March third, eighteen hundred and 
ninety-one, and Acts supplemental to and amendatory thereof, 
after such lands have been so reserved, excepting such laws as 
affect the surveying, prospecting, locating, appropriating, enter- 
ing, relinquishing, reconveying, certifying, or patenting of any 
of such lands.” **° 
At the beginning of the fiscal year this bureau, known as the 
Forest Service, had in its employ 821 persons, of whom 153 were 
professionally trained foresters. In 1908 the force comprised 
1779 persons, consisting of 29 inspectors, 98 forest supervisors, 
61 deputies, 33 forest assistants, 8 planting assistants, 941 rangers, 
521 guards and 88 clerks.‘ ‘The scope and magnitude of the 
activities of the Service have increased year by year since that 
date. 
Thus, after the lapse of fifteen years since the committee of 
the Academy made its recommendations, the Government has 
provided an effective organization for the protection of the 
public forests—one which may be fairly said to possess the 
principal features, though not the exact form, which the com- 
mittee considered desirable. Instead of a bureau of forests in the 
Department of the Interior we have the Forest Service in the 
Department of Agriculture. Instead of a “director” and 
“assistant director,” we have a “chief forester’ and “ associate 
forester”; instead of “ head foresters ” and “ foresters ” we have 
“forest supervisors ” and “ deputies.” ‘The division into depart- 
ments has been adopted. The formation of a special “ board of 
forest lands” has not been carried into effect, the locating and 
surveying of forest lands and kindred duties remaining in charge 
of the General Land Office of the Department of the Interior. 
The plan of recruiting officers from West Point and providing 
for retirement for age has not been adopted, while the forest 
schools connected with universities and colleges have supplied 
the means of educating young men in the principles of forestry 
*® Stat. at Large, vol. 33, part 1, p. 628, 58th Congress, 3d Session, chap. 288, sec. 1, 1905. 
© Rep. Dep. Agric. for 1908, p. 417. 
