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OFFICE OF LANDS. 



Mounted Maps for Field Officers 



In order to increase the serviceability of mounted maps used in field work, they 

 will hereafter be mounted to fold, unless it is specifically stated that this is not 

 desirable. Requisitions should state for what purpose the map is desired and 

 whether it should be mounted or unmounted. 



Field Notes 



Whenever it is necessary to submit a set of field notes of survey, with reports for 

 listing, under the act of June 11, 1906, examiners should be careful to furnish the 

 Washington office with at least five carbon copies of the field notes. 



Administrative Sites 



Supervisors are urged to consider carefully the question of making additional 

 recommendations for the withdrawal of administrative sites on their respective 

 Forests. It may be assumed that at least one ranger station will be needed for every 

 township. It is of course obvious that there are many townships within the 

 National Forests in which there is no need for an administrative site, but, on the 

 other hand, there are townships in which two or even more ranger stations will 

 eventually be needed. Supervisors should consider this question carefully during 

 the winter months and be prepared to have proposed ranger stations located just as 

 soon as the field work can be begun in the spring and before the more pressing 

 work of the summer begins. 



Boundaries 



Since the General Land Office requires that, in requests for withdrawals, the areas 

 included in the administrative sites which are described by metes and bounds shall 

 be indicated, supervisors should, in recommending such withdrawals, indicate on 

 the plats and field notes of survey the approximate areas included in all tracts which 

 are described by metes and bounds. 



OFFICE OF ORGANIZATION. 



Designation of Forest Divisions 



In giving instructions in the December Field Program for the designation of 

 divisions of National Forests a contradiction appears between the instructions and 

 example given. The instructions state that the name of the division should be placed 

 after the words "National Forest," whereas they should have stated "should be 

 placed before the words 'National Forest,' " to correspond with the example given. 



New National Forests 



During the past month the President signed proclamations making the following 

 additions: Monticello National Forest, 101,398 acres; Aquarius National Forest, 

 87,159 acres. The Vegas National Forest was created on December 12, with an area 

 of 195,840 acres, and the proclamation creating the Arkansas National Forest, with 

 an aria of 1,073,955 acres, was signed on December 18. The Arkansas has the dis- 

 tinction of being farther east than any other National Forest. A proclamation adding 

 about 67,425 acres to the San Gabriel National Forest, Cal., was signed December 23. 

 These creations make the total area of National Forests 162,578,358 acres. 



