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Supervisors 106 



Deputy forest supervisors 70 



Forest assistants 117 



Forest planting assistants 11 



Lumbermen 17 



Forest rangers 188 



Deputy forest rangers 420 



Assistant forest rangers 413 



Forest guards 151 



Total 1,493^^ 



In 1910, the number of forest rangers was increased by 293; 

 and the total number of all employees at work in the National 

 Forests (including mining experts, hunters and clerks) is given 

 as 2,536. 



Every national forest is immediately under the charge of a 

 local forest supervisor. If the supervisor fails to be a trained 

 forester he is given an assistant experienced in forestry. The 

 supervisor must be a man of the west, and must be equipped 

 with a wide practical knowledge of western lumbering and 

 western grazing. 



The "planting assistant" prepares and tends the nurseries and 

 superintends the planting of seeds and seedlings. The annual 

 capacity of the nurseries in the National Forests exceeds, in 

 1910, 16,000,000 seedlings. Almost 10,000 acres situated in 104 

 National Forests were planted up, during 1910. Obviously, most 

 of this planting work is experimentaL 



The "lumberman" cruises and estimates the timber, prepares 

 the logging operations, and watches the scalers and the loggers. 



The "forest ranger" patrols his district (average district, in 

 1910, is 104,307 acres), prevents and stops fire, trespass, over- 

 grazing, abuse of privileges, non-compliance with contracts and 

 regulations etc. 



NATIONAL FOREST BUSINESS. 



The national forests are used to the fullest possible extent 

 for the benefit of the whole people, with the only proviso 

 that the use must not be such as to invite destruction of a 

 resource. 



