SERVICE NOTES FOR JANUARY. 



These notes contain instructions and necessary information to forest 

 office'rs, and will therefore be carefully read and kept on file for reference. 



FORESTER. 



Organization of Branch of Forest Management. 



The return of the men from France makes possible the readjustment 

 of the organization of Silviculture to the new conditions. It is my 

 desire to broaden the scope of the work of the Branch, with special 

 view to the promotion of the practice of forestry outside the National 

 Forests. Until his resignation Mr. Hall was my immediate assistant 

 in the work of forwarding the new forestry movement. This work will 

 now be assigned to the Branch of Silviculture. The extension work on 

 farm woodlands and assistance to private owners in the practice of 

 silviculture will be transferred from Research to Silviculture. 



The development of the practice of forestry on private as well as 

 public lands calls for more specialized direction in the overhead organi- 

 zation. To secure this it is desirable to divide the work of the East 

 from that of the West, and thus to establish an eastern and a western 

 division. The western division will be in charge of Forest Inspector 

 R. Y. Stuart, and the eastern division in charge of Forest Inspector 

 E. E. Carter. Each of these men will assist the chief of Branch in 

 the direction of all the work of the Branch within his respective 

 division. In effect these men will be associate chiefs of Branch, to 

 whom the chief will delegate large authority in their respective fields. 

 Either of them, however, is subject to call to aid in the field of the 

 other, just as any of the other assistants in the Branch may be called 

 upon to do work outside of the district constituting his main assign- 

 ment. Field inspection by the officer in charge and his assistants will 

 ordinarily be limited to their own division. 



WESTERN DIVISION. 



This division will be responsible for the silvicultural and manage- 

 ment work on National Forests west of the Great Plains, for coopera- 

 tion with other Federal agencies, and for State cooperative work in this 

 region, including cooperation under the Weeks law, and for the exten- 

 sion and application of forestry on private lands. These activities 

 will be conducted through the existing district organizations. The 



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