Current Literature. 65 



The bulletin is a valuable and useful one, and it is to be hoped 

 that the authors will issue it in book form. A similar work on 

 shrubs is a desideratum. 



J. H. W. 



The National Forest Manual. U. S. Forest Service. Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Much of the time of Forest Service administrative officers 

 during the past few years has been spent in perfecting routine 

 methods and in solving new problems of policy that are con- 

 tinually arising in every day work. As instructions were issued 

 in the Field Program, in Service orders, or in circular letters it 

 proved increasingly difficult for new men entering the Forest 

 Service to find out what the latest policy and procedure was with- 

 out hunting through a mass of material. In order to correlate all 

 instructions for the use of the National Forest resources, a 

 National Forest Manual is now being issued. The sections now 

 in print are as follows : 



I St. Water Power. Pages 86. Issued to take effect Decem- 

 ber 28, 1910. 



2nd. Grazing. Pages 100. Issued to take effect May i, 191 1. 



3rd. Especial Uses. Pages 35. Issued to take effect May i, 

 1911. 



4th. Trespass. Pages 23. Issued to take effect September i, 

 1911. 



5th. Forest Plans, Forest Extension, Forest Investigation, 

 Libraries, Co-operation, Dendrology. Pages 45. Issued to take 

 effect November i, 191 1. 



6th. Timber Sales, Administrative Use, Timber Settlement, 

 Free Use. Pages 90. Issued to take effect December i, 191 1. 



It is understood that the Claims and Forest Settlement (Act of 

 June 11) section is now in proof. 



The first four sections enumerated above are confined chiefly 

 to administrative routine and policy. Possibly the trespass sec- 

 tion is too brief and it certainly can be vastly improved before it 

 is re-issued. 



The Forest Plans section contains a great deal of valuable 

 technical information based on the results of actual experience; 

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