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BRANCH OF SILVICULTURE. 

 OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT. 



Certificate of Publication 



Neglect on the part of forest officers in charge of National Forests to send to 

 the Forester Form 935, " Certificate of Publication," in Class C timber sales, as 

 required by " The Use Book," page 39, always causes delay in handling the 

 timber sales. This form properly filled in, and with a clipping of the adver- 

 tisement attached, should be sent to the Forester as soon as the first publi- 

 cation has appeared. Without this form it is impossible for the Washington 

 office to know upon what date the bids in each case should be opened. 



Management Men Temporarily Assigned 



Technical men from the Office of Forest Management are temporarily as- 

 signed to assist forest supervisors on the National Forests in which the timber- 

 sale work is especially large and important. Such men are expected to assist 

 the supervisor by carrying on under his direction such work as the preliminary 

 examination and estimate of proposed sales, the marking of timber and the 

 instruction of local forest officers in timber marking, and to consult freely with 

 the supervisor regarding all phases of the technical timber work on his 

 National Forest. They should in no case be assigned to do rangers' work, such 

 as attending to grazing business, or examining agricultural and other claims. 



As soon as the technical work requiring the presence of extra men from the 

 Office of Management has decreased, or is in condition to be handled by the 

 local forest officers alone, the supervisor should promptly report to the For- 

 ester, in order that the assistants may be directed* to proceed to some other 

 National Forest where their services are more urgently needed. 



Assistant Lumbermen 



Assistant lumbermen are assigned temporarily to the National Forests where 

 the need for their work arises. While on a National Forest they are under the 

 direction of the supervisor, but their disposition will be controlled by the Wash- 

 ington office, and the supervisor should fully understand that they are subject 

 to transfer on very short notice from one Forest to another when the need for 

 their services elsewhere is urgent. But after the assignment of an assistant 

 lumberman to a National Forest, and until otherwise instructed by the Washing- 

 ton office, the supervisor should direct the movements of the assistant lumber- 

 man within his National Forest and should see that his services are utilized to 

 the best advantage. 



Owing to the large number of existing sales where work is actually being 

 carried on their time, will be mainly occupied in supervising logging operations 

 and in check-scaling. It is expected that along these lines the assistant lumber- 

 men will be of great assistance to the local officers. Assistant lumbermen can 

 be used to advantage also in cruising and reporting on .tracts of timber for 

 which there is either an application or a chance of an early sale. 



The assistant lumbermen should report fully on the scaling methods in 

 practice in any particular locality in which they are working, noting the 

 defects of the methods, and should recommend changes and improvements if 

 such are thought necessary. 



