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districts with 100,000 to 200,000 acres in each. The ranger has 

 an assistant ranger and several guards under him. 



Needs of the Bureau of Forestry. 



The chief need of the Bureau of Forestry is to complete as 

 soon as possible the organization of intensive administration for 

 all Philippine forests along the Hues inaugurated in 1909 for the 

 Bataan and Negros forests. To do this will require a greatly in- 

 creased force of trained foresters and trained native rangers. 

 The foresters for a number of years will be almost exclusively 

 American, but it is planned to educate and train Filipinos of the 

 better class, in the course of time, to be foresters capable of taking 

 charge of forest districts. To properly administer the forests of 

 the islands will require at least 50 trained foresters, 500 or more 

 trained rangers, and 2,000 or more guards. 



The present force is ten American foresters and about 40 native 

 rangers and student assistants. In order to increase the present 

 inadequate force to what it should be it will be necessary to in- 

 crease the appropriations from $70,000 per annum, the present 

 amount, to about $500,000 per annum. The increase in force and 

 appropriations will take place gradually. 



There is being established, in connection with the Philippine 

 College of Agriculture, a school of forestry for the education and 

 training of native rangers and foresters. Up to the present the 

 native rangers were trained in the field by the different American 

 foresters while engaged in field work. There are three Filipino 

 assistant foresters, two graduates of Nebraska and one of the 

 Michigan Agricultural College, who have had some forest train- 

 ing in the United States. But as a rule it will be much better to 

 give the native all his forest education and training in the Philip- 

 pines, as sending him to the States is very expensive and is liable 

 to give him too much of a swell head, and he is then not of as 

 much use for actual field work as rangers with only a rough and 

 ready training in the field. 



The education and training of a large corps of native rangers 

 and foresters is the most important work which the Bureau of 

 Forestry has at present. It is part of the policy of the United 

 States to educate the Filipinos to take care of themselves, and 

 most of the higher as well as lower offices in the Government will 



