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The Office- of Operation attends in each district to 

 the-protection and administration of the National Forests and 

 employs engineers, expert miners, and foresters to investigate 

 claims, make surveys and maps, and supervise the "building of 

 telephone lines, trails, roads, bridges, ranger stations, and 

 other permanent improvements. 



The Office of Grazing looks after the range, cooper- 

 ates in the enforcement of quarantine regulations, and 'Issues 

 permits by wh: oh the grazing of stock within each National For- 

 est is FO regulated as to improve rather than destroy its graz- 

 ing capacity. It studies the "best means of re seeding the range 

 and conducts investigations and devises means of checking the 

 growth of poisonous plants which are iniur' ous to live stock. 



The Office of Silviculture makes a special study of 

 the management of timbered lands in order to make then yield 

 the largest permanent returns* It makes timber sales on the 

 Rational Forests, plants trees on bare National Forest land, 

 makes estimates and forest working plans, investigates forest 

 conditions and all problems connected with the life and growth 

 of trees, and gives advice v/hero possible to private parties 

 who are interested in similar lines of work. 



The work of the Office of Products is the determina- 

 tion of all ways and means possible for utilizing wood and tim- 

 ber, in order to make the "business of forestry both economical 

 and profitable* UJarke'ts and wood-using industries everywhere 



