NEWS AND NOTES 



Forest Service Personnel in Six New Field 

 Districts 



THE names of the 377 foresters, 

 clerks, and stenographers who are 

 to make up the personnel of the 1'nited 

 States Forest Service Headquarters of 

 the six districts into which the National 

 Forests have been divided, have just 

 been announced. The district for- 

 esters' offices, located in Denver, Colo.; 

 Ogden, Utah: Missoula. .Mont.: Al- 

 buquerque. N. Mex. ; San Francisco, 

 Cal., and Portland, Oreg., will open on 

 December I. 



The new field organization of the 

 Forest Service will greatly facilitate the 

 use of the National Forests by the peo- 

 ple. It will mean that the National 

 Forest business which formerly was 

 transacted in "Washington will be han- 

 dled by officers on or near the ground. 

 The establishment of the district head- 

 quarters is the culmination of a plan 

 toward which the Foresl Service has 

 lii-en working steadily -ince it took 

 charge of the National Forests. 



Each National Fon>t District will be 

 in charge of a District Forester. The 

 work at district headquarters will be 

 distributed among four offices Opera- 

 tion. ( iraxing. Silviculture, and Prod- 

 ucts each equipped with men of spe- 

 cial training for the work of their 

 office. 



The < >ffice of < >peration will In- 

 charged with responsibility f, .r the | 

 tection of National Forests, for the 

 building of roads, trails, and other i 

 manent improvements upon them, for 

 the or^anixation of the force on Na- 

 tional Forests, and with the supervision 

 of all husine^ relating to the special 

 use of National Forest resoui The 



( M'tice of Silviculture will have -uper- 

 vision of the free use and sale of timber 

 m National Forests, forest planting 

 u])on them, and will conduct forest 



studies on National Forests as wei, 



in cooperation with private owners in 

 the District. The < )ffice of < irazini: 

 will supervise grazing business in the 

 District, except for the actual fixing 

 of allowances, periods, and rat' 

 will make studies looking to the im- 

 provement of the forage crop on Na- 

 tional Forests. The office of 1'rodncts 

 will make Ix'th independently and in 

 lera'ion with private owners, stud- 

 ies leading to a more profitable use of 

 timber on and off National FOP 

 within the District and to their pre- 

 servative treatment. 



From the District Foresters down, 

 the personnel of the District offices i~ 

 made up of men picked for their pro. 

 capacity, for their thorough train i 

 and for their experience in the W 

 Most of them are men who not onh 

 have worked in the \Yest after they 

 entered in the Ser\ ice. but \\lio lived 

 in the West before they took up the 

 (io\ eminent forest work. Many 

 them arc men who formerly were cm- 

 plo\cd on the National F> and 



havt been promoted to larger responsi- 

 bilities as a result of their high ctti 

 ciencv. The personnel of tin- District 

 office-, which has ju^t been announced. 

 is as f< >lli il 



I District (>n<- Including: Montana. 

 Northeastern Washington. Northern 

 Idaho. Northern \\'yoming. and North 

 \\cstern South Dakota. II t \nJ<jn.: 

 Missoulii. Mitnt. IT. />'. Greeley, I 

 /./(-/ /'";<.</,';; ]'. \. S WMaiit 



! >i-trict I-'orester. 



K. 11 Kutled-e. ( 'hief. < M'nVe of 

 ( >pcration ; K Y. Stuart. \ 

 ("hief: (. I 1 . Martin, ('hief Engineer: 

 F. W. Kramer and T 1 Day, En^i 



lieefs ; I'. 1 '. ( 



upancy : P. 1. ' ''1'rien. riaim 

 ( "lerk : I. Iv Keac! inent Tlerk : 



Wilhit. lerk: TT 1. 1 



ini;. l ; iscal Agent: ' ' M \\"old. T. N 



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