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tive. The next step is to convert this 

 analysis into a plan of action. A start 

 on this is made, as previously stated, 

 by assigning each job, or a specified 

 part of each job, to each of the months 

 during which it should be performed. 

 The resulting list of jobs in each month 

 is then assembled into an integrated 

 plan of work. 



In a ranger district, for example, the 

 list of jobs for a month will include a 

 great variety of work such as timber 

 sales, inspection by fire guards, range 

 management, and special-use adminis- 

 tration, scattered probably over a quar- 

 ter of a million acres. Travel time 

 alone, on horseback and otherwise, may 



require as much as 35 percent or more 

 of the total time devoted to all the 

 duties on the district. Obviously, there- 

 fore, unless the work is carefully 

 planned, travel may be unproductive 

 and unreasonably high and it may 

 shorten appreciably the time necessary 

 for the actual fulfillment of duties. 



EARL W. LOVERIDGE is assistant chief 

 of the Forest Service, in charge of ad- 

 ministrative management and infor- 

 mation. A native of Pennsylvania and 

 a graduate in forestry from Pennsyl- 

 vania State College, he started work 

 with the Forest Service in Minnesota as 

 a student assistant in 1911. 



A juniper 3,000 years old in Cache National Forest in Utah; 

 drawn from a photograph taken in 1924. 



