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uates in Forestry in the dozen or more 

 years of their existence. A Httle more 

 than one half of these. 79, are in Domin- 

 ion or provincial g-overnment service, 

 and approximately one quarter of them 

 are employed by lumber companies or 

 pulp and paper companies. 



The reader who has followed these 

 articles thus far niay be interested in a 

 statement as to the opportunities in for- 

 estry work. As indicated in the pre- 

 ceding paragraphs, the majority of the 

 forestry school graduates thus far have 

 entered .government service. The prin- 

 cipal employers are the Dominion For- 

 estry Branch, the Forest Service of Que- 

 bec, the British Columbia Forest Branch, 

 the Ontario Forestry Branch, the New 

 Brunswick Forest Service, and the Com- 

 mission of Conservation at Ottawa. 



The work of the Dominion Forestry 

 Branch that administers some 22,500.000 

 acres of forest land in the four western 

 provinces may be taken as fairly repre- 

 sentative of government service. Ac- 

 cording to the Civil Service regulations 

 the graduate ranks as a forest assistant 

 and he starts in on $1,320 a year, with 

 traveling and living expenses when in the 

 field. He may be called upon to act as 

 an assistant in almost any kind of work, 

 such as estimating timber, making boun- 

 dary surveys, making maps showing 

 forest conditions, topography and drain- 

 age ; constructing roads, trails and tele- 

 phone Hues ; building bridges, cabins and 

 lookout towers ; fighting tires and guard- 

 ing against trespassers; marking timber 

 for cutting, scaling logs, burning slash 

 and doing reforestation work. 



The Salary Reward. 



The term as forest assistant is a 

 period of apprenticeship and testing the 

 qualities of the man and lasts two or 

 three years or longer according to indi- 

 vidual cases. If the t'orcst assistant 

 makes good, he next steps into the grade 

 of forester, with an initial salar\- of 

 $1,680. with lield exi)enses paid. His 

 work is ])nictically the same as before, 

 but he is given positions of increasing 

 res])onsibility and is encouraged to use 

 his head more than his brawn. In fact. 

 he has the opportmiity to i)repare him- 

 self for the higher administrative posi- 



tions and he may pass next to the grade 

 of superior, when he will have charge of 

 a forest, which may vary from a few 

 hundred to a million acres in extent. A 

 supervisor starts in at $1,800. The sup- 

 erintendent of forest resen^es begins on 

 a salary of $2,100 and goes to $2,580. 

 He administers several reserves. The 

 Dominion Poorest Reserves are divided 

 into four districts, one in each of the 

 western provinces. The district office 

 administers all the reserves within the 

 province. The District Forester Inspec- 

 tor at Calgary, for example, has charge 

 of more than 12.000.000 acres of forest. 

 This officer begins with a salarv of S2,880 

 and may go to S3, 360. At the present 

 time there are only two or three positions 

 in the Forestry Branch that pay salaries 

 higher than this. All the salaries indi- 

 cated above carry a substantial bonus 

 for men with families and for single men 

 with salaries below $2,100. 



The work in provincial forestry 

 branches is similar to that outlined above. 

 Local conditions, however, bring about 

 variations in the emphasis of the work. 

 For example, in one province fire pro- 

 tection may be stressed and in another 

 timber scaling or in still another it may 

 be the examination of timber lands pre- 

 paratory to leasing. W'ith one or two 

 exceptions the salaries in provincial ser- 

 vices are lower than in the Dominion 

 ser\'ice. 



The Demand for Forest Engineers. 



I here is an increasing demand from 

 lumbermen, especially pulpwood opera- 

 tors, for men trained in engineering and 

 forestry. A\'itli cheap stumpage and an 

 overrtowing sn|)ply. rough and readv rule 

 of thumb nielliods in the woods and in 

 the mill were adequate, but with the 

 preseiU high prices and with at least an 

 imcertainty as to future supplv. nuich 

 closer utilization is possible and the 

 checking of waste prolitable. In many 

 cases, however, the new i>robIeins whicli 

 the new conditions bring are proving loo 

 knoiiy for wooilsinen with onlv empiri- 

 cal knowledge and the managors of the 

 more progressive companies .ire turning 

 to technically educated men. This trend 

 is particularly noticeable in timber cruis- 

 ing. I he limit owners now demand de- 



