NEWS AND NOTES 



Forest Service Personnel in Six New Field 

 Districts 



THE names of the 377 foresters, 

 clerks, and stenographers who are 

 to make up the personnel of the United 

 States Forest Service Headquarters of 

 the six districts into which the National 

 Forests have been divided, have just 

 been announced. The district for- 

 esters' offices, located in Denver, Colo. ; 

 Ogden, Utah ; Missoula, Mont. ; Al- 

 buquerque. N. Mex. ; San Francisco, 

 Cal., and Portland, Oreg., will open on 

 December i. 



The new field organization of the 

 Forest Service will greatly facilitate the 

 use of the National Forests by the peo- 

 ple. It will mean that the National 

 Forest business which formerly was 

 transacted in Washington will be han- 

 dled by officers on or near the ground. 

 The establishment of the district head- 

 quarters is the culmination of a plan 

 toward which the Forest Service has 

 been working steadily since it took 

 charge of the National Forests. 



Each National Forest District will be 

 in charge of a District Forester. The 

 work at district headquarters will be 

 distributed among four offices — Opera- 

 tion, Grazing, Silviculture, and Prod- 

 ucts — each equipped with men of spe- 

 cial training for the work of their 

 office. 



The Office of Operation will be 

 charged with responsibility for the pro- 

 tection of National Forests, for the 

 building of roads, trails, and other per- 

 manent improvements upon them, for 

 the organization of the force on Na- 

 tional Forests, and with the supervision 

 of all business relating to the special 

 use of National Forest resources. The 

 Office of Silviculture will have super- 

 vision of the free use and sale of timber 

 from National Forests, forest planting 

 upon them, and will conduct forest 



studies on National Forests as well as 

 in cooperation with private owners in 

 the District. The Office of Grazing 

 will supervise grazing business in the 

 District, except for the actual fixing 

 of allowances, periods, and rates, and 

 will make studies looking to the im- 

 provement of the forage crop on Na- 

 tional Forests. The Office of Products 

 will make both independently and in 

 cooperation with private owners, stud- 

 ies leading to a more profitable use of 

 timber on and off National Forests 

 within the District and to their pre- 

 servative treatment. 



From the District Foresters down, 

 the personnel of the District offices is 

 made up of men picked for their proved 

 capacity, for their thorough training, 

 and for their experience in the West. 

 Most of them are men who not only 

 have worked in the West after they 

 entered in the Service, but who lived- 

 in the West before they took up the 

 Government forest work. Many of 

 them are men who formerly were em- 

 ployed on the National Forests and 

 have been promoted to larger responsi- 

 bilities as a result of their high effi- 

 ciency. The personnel of the District 

 offices, which has just been announced, 

 is as follows : 



District One Inchiding : Montana, 

 Northeastern Washington, Northern 

 Idaho, Northern Wyoming, and North- 

 western South Dakota. Headquarters: 

 Missoula, Mont. W. B. Greeley, Dis- 

 trict Forester; F. A. Silcox, Assistant 

 District Forester. 



R. H. Rutledge, Chief, Office of 

 Operation ; R. Y. Stuart, Assistant 

 Chief ; J. P. Martin, Chief Engineer ; 

 E. W. Kramer and T. L. Day, Engi- 

 neers ; E. B. Ouiggle, Chief, Section of 

 Occupancy; P. J. O'Brien, Claims 

 Clerk ; T. E. Keach, Settlement Clerk : 

 C. O. Wilhite, Uses Clerk ; H. I. Lov- 

 ing. Fiscal Agent : O. ]\T. Wold. J. A, 



