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Forest homesteads can be applied for on both surveyed and unsurveyed 

 land. On the unsurveyed lands, areas arc open to entry by a metes and 

 bounds survey which gives a man an opportunity not only to get patent 

 even though the regular rectangle public land surveys are 

 Every Piece never made but also to include the maximum amount of actual 

 of Agricul- agricultural land in his i6o acre homestead. It is the desire 

 tural Land of the forest service to have as many homesteaders within the 

 Will Be national forest as the available agricultural land will support. 



Available. All agricultural land is not open to entry, because it is neces- 

 sary for the governmient to retain small areas of land here and 

 there to provide stations for the forest rangers and to take care of the pack 

 horses used in fire protection work, telephone, trail and road construction. 

 Rights of way for the removal of timber and the driving of stock must also 

 be retained. The areas retained bv the government are held to the mini- 



Forest Homestead and Orchard on Sivan River. 



mum needed for the proper protection of the national forests and the utili- 

 zation of their resources. 



The administrative unit of the forest service is an area embracing 

 approximately one million acres called a national forest. This national for- 

 est is directly under the charge of a forest supervisor. He may or may not 

 have a deputy to assist him, depending upon the quantity of 

 The Organi- work. The forest is cut up into sub-units of 100,000 to 200,000 

 zation Is acres and these areas are directly under the supervision of for- 

 Very Com- est rangers. The ranger handles all the different lines of work. 

 plete and timber sales, grazing, fire protection, etc., in his ow'n district 

 Effective. ind is assisted during the hazardous fire season by temporarily 

 employed men known as forest guards. There are 18 forests 

 in Montana. The names of the supervisors, their addresses, the area of 

 each national forest, date of last proclam.ation. area of national forest m 

 a natioral forest are shown bv the following tables: 



-Nature left the door of fortune open in Montana. 



