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r and his technical aids to bring their forest gradually 

 to a condition of maximum product iveness. To do thi-j requires a 



great deal of detailed study and skillful planning. Each step, 

 from the care and protection of the young growth to the lumbering 

 of the mature forest must be carefully considered and as carefully 

 executed if the forest is to go on producing trees indefinitely. 

 For each of the many lines of work to be carried on in 

 the forest, men with special experience are required. Those who 

 prepare and tend the nurseries must be experienced in raising and 

 caring for young trees. The lumberman, who cruises and estimates 

 timber s helps to plan logging operations, and st-es that the scaling 

 is correctly dor.e and that the rule? for logging are properly ob- 

 served t must be an experienced and capable woodsman. The Forest 

 Ranger patrols his district of the forest to see that fire and 

 trespass are prevented, that the range is not over glased, that log- 

 ging regulations are enforced,, and that the privileges granted by 

 permit for the use of the various forest resources are not abused; 

 he also must be hard-headed, practical,, and thoroughly honest, an 

 able-bodied citizen of the '.Vest, with plenty of experience in all 

 the problems with which he may have to deal. The trained foresters 

 are i^.suaily Forest School graduates a Their training is somewhat 

 parallel to that of the civil engineer, but particular attention 

 is paid to th-3 study of botany, to the life and grovrth of forests, 

 and to all that affects their development and usefulness. In 



