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upon the Department of Agriculture are in charge 

 of the Forester whose office is in Washington, D. C. 

 To facilitate the administration of the Forests 7 

 districts have been established with headquarters in 

 the following places: 



District 1. (Montana, northeastern Washington, northern 

 Idaho, and northwestern South Dakota) Mis- 

 soula, Montana. 



District 2. (Colorado, Wyoming, the remainder of South 

 Dakota, Nebraska, northern Michigan, and 

 northern Minnesota) Denver, Colorado. 



District 3. (Most of Arizona and New Mexico) Albuquerque, 

 New Mexico. 



District 4. (Utah, southern Idaho, western Wyoming, eastern 

 and central Nevada, and northwestern Arizona) 

 Ogden, Utah. 



District 5. (California and western Nevada) San Francisco, 

 California. 



District 6. (Washington, Oregon, and Alaska) Portland, 

 Oregon. 



District 7. (Arkansas, Florida, Oklahoma, and the newly pur- 

 chased areas in South Carolina, Georgia, North 

 Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, 

 New Hampshire, Maine, and Alabama,) Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Each administrative district embraces a number of 

 National Forests and is in charge of a Forest officer 

 known as the District Forester who is responsible to 

 the Forester for all administrative and technical 



