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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



A Forest Ranger Station 



HOWEVER POOR THESE FOREST RANGER STATIONS MAY BE IT IS NECESSARY FOR ALL PERSONS TO REMOVE THEIR SHOES 



BEFORE ENTERING THEM 



ination before entering the Forestry 

 Bureau. The officials constituting the 

 personnel of the Forestry Bureau and 

 the field force consists of twenty 

 Secretaries, twenty-three Assistant Sec- 

 retaries, and eighty-two experts in the 

 higher civil service; and 1,426 clerks 

 and assistant experts, and 1,321 forest 

 inspectors and rangers in the lower 

 civil service. Of these 2,079 are under 

 the Department for Ordinary Expendi- 

 tures and 668 under that of Extra- 

 ordinary Ex]3enditures. 



This makes a total of 2,272 permanent 

 •employes. Besides this number there 

 are 354 foresters connected with pre- 

 fectoral governments. The 10,850,000 

 acres of State Forests are divided into 

 ten Major Forest Districts containing 

 on an average 1,085,000 acres. These 

 districts are in turn divided into 211 

 Minor Forest Districts — National For- 

 est — with an average of 51,420 acres. 

 The Minor Forest Districts are sub- 



divided into 1,314 Protection Districts — 

 Ranger Districts — which will average 

 8,257 acres. 



As stated previously, the area of the 

 State forests comprises 10,850,000 acres. 

 Part of this land is unfit for State 

 Administration, and some areas are 

 better suited for agricultural purposes 

 than forestry. The total area of this 

 land is 1,150,000 acres, and is set apart 

 as "Unnecessary Land" and is sold to 

 local corporations or individuals. 



The remainder of the land, or 

 9,700,000 acres, is divided into 

 8,775,000 acres of land with trees 

 and 925,000 acres of land without 

 trees, rocky, etc. 



On account of lack of transportation 

 facilities some of the forests have not 

 been expoilted at the present time. 

 To be more specific, 5,725,000 acres 

 have been exploited and 3,050,000 acres 

 are yet unexploited. 



