204 Forestry Quarterly 



Forest Service is concerned with judicial, legislative, and admini- 

 strative problems, including technical management, forest experi- 

 ments and examinations. Under his direction, subordinate 

 officials at the central bureau examine and approve district 

 budgets, prices of forest products, technical studies, free use, 

 wages, promotions, appointments, and organization regulations. 

 There are 7 districts (Vienna, Gmunden, Salzburg, Innsbruck, 

 Gorz, Lemburg, and Czernowitz), each in charge of a director 

 or district forester that directs and supervises the "forests." He 

 is an executive who recommends and carries out schemes ap- 

 proved by the central administration at Vienna. He maintains 

 the property of the State and funds lands, and plans increases in 

 revenue; supervises free use, building operations, shooting and 

 fishing, working plans, annual and current reports, finances, 

 allotments, and appointments within their districts. Important 

 district problems, however, are not decided within the district, 

 but only after consultation with the chief officials of the other 

 districts. Judging from the large number of forests (196), and 

 bearing in mind that the total area administered is less than 

 4,000,000 acres, it is clear that the supervisors in charge of forests 

 are all-round men who personally supervise all field work done 

 by their subordinates, besides being responsible for office work. 

 There is clearly no room for a supervisor staff with administra- 

 tive districts. 



In France, there are no districts in the sense that districts are 

 maintained in Austria. There is a central bureau at Paris having 

 much the same functions as the Vienna bureau, but instead of 

 seven districts there are thirty-two "conservations," not including 

 three in Algeria, and one in Tunisia. The French "conservation" 

 is, therefore, practically identical (but far less important) than 

 the proposed staff supervisor organization, proposed by District 

 3. In France, the conservator makes personal trips to superin- 

 tend important work on the various units within his conservation, 

 holds the more important timber auctions (which are oral), and 

 generally represents the district in the local department; is the 

 personal representative of the Waters and Forests Service in 

 dealing with the Prefect or local governor. Under the conserva- 

 tor, are comparatively small forest units, usually in charge of an 

 inspector or assistant inspector who personally supervises impor- 

 tant marking and other field work and "management" (working 



