APPOINTMENTS TO THE FOREST 



SERVICE 



Method to be Followed in Selecting 

 Men for Government Forest Work 



N December 17, 1904, the Presi- the direction and control of the Fores- 



dent signed the following order : ter. 



"In the exercise of the power vest- POSITIONS ix THE CLASSIFIED FOREST 



ed in the President by section 1753 of SERVICE. PRESENT ORGANIZATION. 



the Revised Statutes and acts amenda- The fidd f Qrce of the Forest Seryice 



now contains the grades of Forest In- 



"IT IS ORDERED, That all per- spector, Forest Supervisor, Forest 

 sons employed in the field and in the Assistant and Forest Ranger. 

 District of Columbia in the 'protection The position of Forest Inspector 

 and administration of forestry re- is filled only by the promotion of ex- 

 serves in or under the General Land perienced men already in the classi- 

 Office of the Interior Department' be fied forest service. Forest Inspectors 

 classified and the civil service act and are assigned to inspection upon forest 

 rules applied thereto, and that no per- reserves, or in other branches of the 

 son be hereafter appointed, employed, forest work. 



promoted, or transferred in said ser- Forest Supervisors are appointed 



vice until he pass an examination in by promotion from Forest Rangers 



conformity therewith, unless specific- or Forest Assistants and by competi- 



ally exempted thereunder. This order tive examination only when no Forest 



shall apply to all officers and em- Rangers or Forest Assistants in the 



ployees, except persons employed State concerned are qualified and 



merely as laborers, and persons whose available for promotion to Forest 



appointments are confirmed by the Supervisor. They are assigned to the 



Senate." charge of one or more reserves, and 



This order classified the whole for- now receive from $1,000 to $2,000 



est reserve service, and placed it under a year. 



the civil service law. On February I, Forest Assistants are appointed 



1905, by Act of Congress, this service only by competitive examination and 



was transferred from the Department may be assigned to reserve duty or to 



of the Interior to the Department of work in other branches of the forest 



Agriculture, without modification of service. They receive from $900 to 



the above order except in the further $1,400 a year. 



restriction entailed by the following Forest Rangers are appointed only 

 section of the act : by competitive examination and are 

 "Sec. 3. That forest supervisors assigned to police and patrol duty 

 and rangers shall be selected, when "pc> n forest reserves and to conduct 

 practicable, from qualified citizens of the business of the reserve under 

 the States or Territories in which the the direction of the Forest Super- 

 said reserves, respectively, are sit- visor - Forest Rangers now receive 

 uated." from $720 to $1,080 a year, or $60 



By order of the Secretary of Agri- to & a month ' 



culture, dated February i, 1905, the PROPOSED ORGANIZATION. 



whole forest reserve service was The reorganization of the forest 



placed in the Forest Service, under service will take place as the neces- 



