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given temporary appointments will receive permanent appoint- 

 ments. The policy of the Forest Service is to open a lower or 

 apprentice grade of work to graduates from forest schools, who 

 have passed the Civil Service examination successfully. They 

 are to serve two years, as we understand, under a Forest Ranger 

 with no expectation of promotion until after this period of 

 apprenticeship is completed- By this means the Forest Serv- 

 ice will be able to use approximately 60 new men in all each year. 

 Rangers for the National Forests, including those in the White 

 Mountains and in the Southern Appalachians, will be secured 

 locally ; some of them will be men technically tramed in the 

 forest schools who are in their period of apprenticeship. It is 

 not likely that there will be a large demand for specially trained 

 rangers. 



Thirty-four states of the United States have adopted some way 

 of promoting forestry, either through a forestry commission, the 

 appointment of a state forester, the organization of a forest serv- 

 ice, or by assisting owners through the state experiment station 

 or agricultural college- Of the fourteen remaining states, few 

 are likely to require a state forest service. Additions of men 

 to state forest services have been very small annually, and in 

 states where the work is now established, no great enlargement 

 is to be expected. For example, take the State of New York 

 and assume that there existed no constitutional provision against 

 cutting timber on the State Forest Preserves, only few technical 

 men would be needed for various positions in the organization 

 required to handle the forests under actual management. The 

 State owns 1,644,088 acres of land. If this area were put on a 

 fairly intensive basis of management, it could be divided into 32 

 units of forests of about 50,000 acres each. Under an organiza- 

 tion similar to but much more intensive than that of the Forest 

 Service in the National Forests, the following force would be 

 required : 



Supervisors in charge of forests, 32 



Deputy Supervisors, 32 



Forest Assistants (technically trained), 32 



Expert lumberman and check scalers, 10 



Rangers, 540 



Total, 646 



