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C. A. SCHENCK. 



B. Office 

 Branches 



Branch of Operation 



1. organization (personell) 



2. engineering (improvement \x^ork) 



3. occupancy 



4. accounts (presided by a "district 

 agent") 



5. maintenance. 



fiscal 



C. Field 

 Force 



Branch of Silviculture 



1. timber sales 



2. planting 



3. silvics and experimental work. 

 Branch of Grazing 



Branch of Products (preservative treatment; timber 

 tests ; market studies). 



(a) Forest Supervisor (salary $1800 $2500) 



or Acting Forest Supervisor, or Deputy 

 Forest Supervisor in charge of a Na- 

 tional Forest (natives of state) ; 



(b) Forest assistant, (salaries not fixed), tech- 



nical adviser of a supervisor (trained 

 foresters) ; 



(c) Forest ranger (salary $1200 to $1400), or 



Deputy Forest ranger, or Assistant For- 

 est ranger (natives) ; 



(d) Forest guard (salary $75 per month) ap- 



pointed when there are no classified 

 men available, on basis of examinations 

 or when there is temporarily a need of 

 extra help. Guards are not under Civil 

 Service rules. 





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ORGANIZATION. 



For each of the many lines of special work in the national 

 forest specialists are being employed. The number of forest 

 officers on duty in the national forests was, in 1Q09, the fol- 

 lowing: 



