It is my policy to furnish District Rangers 

 with all information which tends t:owards increasing and 

 "broadening their knowledge of Forest administration, "but 

 carefully keeping in hand the general work on e^ch Dis- 

 trict ; keeping such a grip upon all work tends toward 

 decreasing duplication of work, improvement of all lines 

 of work taken up by the field force, increasing the 

 Supervisor f s general knowledge of his Forest and then 

 by placing Forest management where it properly should "be, 

 within the Supervisor T s office. I do ICOJ mean that 

 firo plans, improvement plans, allotment plans and the 

 "bigger factors should "be handled and worked up in tho 

 Supervisor's office after meoting the rangers on the 

 ground, going over^thoir districts with them and dis- 

 cussing the points at issue personally, rather than 

 calling for voluminous reports and maps etc, which can 

 only bo used in a very superficial way. 



Rangers seldom leave their districts, have, 

 not tho opportunity to keep in touch with the advancement 

 of thfis Service and consequently can not he objected to 

 conceive the "broad scope of progress within v/hich our 

 v/ork must "be place and necessarily follow. This is no 

 discredit to them, it is the result of unavoidable cir- 



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