6o6 Forestry Quarterly. 



ministration after having been thoroughly organized and put 

 in good running shape. 



The work on the newly organized forests includes all of the 

 general administrative work formerly carried on, when part of a 

 larger district, and some additional lines of work. The program 

 includes : 



1. Inspection of cutting areas and fines for violations of regu- 

 lations. 



2. Inspection of land for homesteads, sale, and lease, and action 

 thereon. 



3. Granting of caingin permits on public land. 



4. Action on applications for licenses to collect and remove 

 forest products. 



5. Patrol against trespass and fire. 



6. Control of free use privilege, and the establishment of com- 

 munal forests. 



7. Silviculture — regulations of logging operations and tree 

 planting. 



8. Co-operation with the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the 

 collection of revenue on forest products. 



9. Investigations tending towards the building up of forest 

 industries. 



10. Land status work such as will aid people with valid claims 

 in establishing title to public land; and investigation of public 

 agricultural land unjustly held or claimed to the exclusion of bona 

 fide homesteaders, and throwing the same open for settlement. 

 The Bureau will encourage and aid the natives in taking out 

 permanent homesteads and in acquiring title to the same rather 

 than to practice the shifting caingin method of agriculture by 

 which so much valuable public forest has been destroyed. 



11. Establishing and maintaining patrol trails' to guard against 

 fire and trespass, and to facilitate caingin, homestead, and status 

 work, is perhaps the chief feature in the organization of the 

 different forests. Forest officers will be provided with horses, 

 and with the patrol trails they can quickly and with ease pass to 

 any part of their district. In general, the main patrol trail will 

 form the boundary between land suitable for settlement and 

 public forest to be retained as such. 



12. Each forest, in charge of a forester, is divided into ranger 



