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establish chairs and departments of forestry. So great is the need of 

 trained foresters that the government forest service is not able to expand 

 as rapidly as would otherwise be possible. 



The acceptance, as stated above, by owners of woodlands and timber 

 tracts of advice and technical forest working plans from the bureau of 

 forestry for the management of their timber supplies is exceedingly wide- 

 spread. Likewise, the acceptance of similar help by tree planters through- 

 out the states is very great. The bureau has more work of this kind than 

 it can take care of j^roperly. In addition, it has been commissioned, 

 through a request of the secretary of the interior, to supply forest work- 

 ing plans for all of the federal reserves. The completion of this work 

 alone will require fifteen or twenty years. 



ORGANIZATION AND WORK OF THE BUREAU. 



As I have just said with the enlargement of funds came the expansion 

 of the division of forestry into a bureau of forestry. This happened only 

 last July. At present the bureau of forestry is divided into four princi- 

 pal divisions: the executive office of the chief forester; the division of 

 forest management ; the division of forest investigation, and the division 

 of office routine and records. The division of forest investigation has 

 come all the way from Washington to get acquainted with the people in 

 Michigan who are interested in forestry. The whole bureau expected to 

 come, but had to remain in Washington to look out for our appropriation 

 for next year's work. 



SCOPE OP FOREST WORK. 



In general, the work of the bureau includes the making and execution 

 of working plans for federal, state and private forest lands; the study 

 of forests, forest fires, forest grazing, commercial trees, lumbering and 

 forest products; the study of economic tree planting and the preparation 

 of planting plans. The bureau is cooperating with the federal govern- 

 ment, with several states, and with many private owners in handling 

 their forest lands. Its assistance has been asked for a total area of 

 52,170,036 acres, of which about 4,000,000 acres are held by lumber com- 

 panies and other private owners. In its studies of commercial trees and 

 forests, and of their forest problems, it is pursuing lines of investigation 

 indispensable to the development and perpetuation of our national forest 

 resources. Its work of tree planting on treeless plains already involves 

 the making of planting plans for many thousand of acres of wood lots, 

 shelter belts and commercial plantations. 



OFFICE OF THE FORESTER. 



The forester or chief executive of the bureau has general directive care 

 of all forest work in consultation with the chiefs of divisions, and of all 

 administrative functions of the bureau. 



DIVISION OF FOREST MANAGEMENT. 



Requests from private owners for practical assistance and advice in 

 the handling of their forest lands are cared for in this division. Of the 



