SERVICE NOTES FOR JANUARY. 



These notes contain instructions and necessary information for 

 Forest officers, and will, therefore, be carefully read and kept on file 

 for reference. 



OFFICE OF THE FORESTER. 



L.AW. 



Manual of Procedure Amended 



The sentence "Areas will be given so far as shown by the record," beginning on 

 line 0, page 82 of the Manual of Procedure, should be amended to read: "Areas and 

 the amount of timber will be given so far as shown by the record." 



Trespass: Criminal Prosecution 



J. D. Combs pleaded guilty in the United States district court for Oregon of driving 

 cattle across the Deschutes National Forest without a permit. He was fined $50 and 

 costs, which he paid. 



Dates for Hearings on Claims to Land 



The District Foresters should request supervisors to inform them promptly of 

 dates fixed by local land officers for hearings on claims to lands in their respective 

 Forests. 



OPERATION. 



Working 1 Map for Improvement Estimates 



The working plan for improvements on each Forest which is to be submitted by 

 the supervisor with the improvement estimates for the next fiscal year should be 

 drawn upon the base maps of Forest Atlas folios, or upon other base maps already 

 prepared which have a scale of not less than one-half inch to one mile. The procla- 

 mation diagrams are usually on too small a scale for this purpose. 



Credentials of District Officers 



It was reported recently that a man who had no connection with the Forest Service 

 represented himself to a ranger on the Coconino National Forest as a forest inspector, 

 and requested to be shown the ranger's official records. The ranger properly refused 

 to show them, on the ground that the man could not produce credentials. 



Since many of the officers of the various District offices are unknown to the field 

 force on the National Forests, District officers when in the field should be supplied 

 with proj>er credentials, and field officers should not allow anyone not known to 

 them access to their records unless proper credentials are shown. 



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