28 THE NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL. 



Bangers' Beading Courses. 



The District Foresters should prepare outlines of courses of reading for ibe 

 rangers, which wil! cover the various subjects and contain- references to the 

 available books. This will insure an intelligent and systematic use of the books 

 in the Forest libraries. These outlines may be supplemented by lists of ques- 

 tions to be answered by the ranger students, after the reading course is com- 

 pleted. The details of the plan and its execution will be left, however, to life 

 District Foresters. 

 Attendance of Forest Officers at Public Meetings. 



A forest supervisor or his representative may, when necessary, attend meet- 

 ings which directly affect the administration of the National Forest of which 

 he is in charge. One member of the district office may also be authorized by 

 the District Forester to attend such meetings. When a supervisor is invited to 

 attend meetings of this kind he will inform the District Forester and make 

 recommendations as to the advisability of the attendance of a member from the 

 district office. In case it is desirable for a Forest officer to attend meetings 

 other than those here specified, the circumstances should be reported to the 

 Forester through the proper channels. (See p. 63.) 



Temporary Details to Washington Office. 



To keep close touch between officers in Washington and in the districts, the 

 Forester will call District Foresters and assistant district foresters into Wash- 

 ington for details of approximately one month. These details may be to aid 

 in the general administration of the Service, for conference on important points 

 of policy, or for special work. 



To prevent serious interference with the plans in the districts, the District 

 Foresters will be called upon for suggestions and recommendations before any 

 detail is made from a district office to Washington. 



Temporary Details to the District Offices. 



The District Forester will detail supervisors, deputy supervisors, forest assist- 

 ants, and, in cases of special efficiency, forest rangers, to assist as needed in the 

 district offices of Operation, Lands, Silviculture, Grazing, and Products. The 

 total number of such details to any district office for any one year will be deter- 

 mined by the District Forester, Only in cases of emergency will the period of 

 such detail exceed, for any one man, six weeks in a single year. 



Amendments to Forester's Authorization. 



Whenever a member of the field force is detailed to a district office, or to the 

 Washington office, for a period longer than six weeks, an amendment to the 

 Forester's letter of authorization will be requested of the Secretary, in the fol- 

 lowing form: 



The SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE: 



SIR : I have the honor to request that Letter of Authorization No. 537 



to the Forester, dated July 1, 3909, be amended to permit , whose 



official station is , to be reimbursed for his actual expenses incurred. 



for subsistence while detailed to the office of the Forest Service at . 



for the period not to exceed days, the expenses for subsistence not 



to exceed an average of $ per day. 



Very respectfully, , 



Forester. 



The maximum allowance for subsistence (meals and lodging only) during a 

 temporary detail of more than 15 days should not exceed an average of $3 per 

 day for the whole period. 



Efficiency. 



To familiarize the rangers with the general routinue of Forest business and 

 with matters outside of their districts, each supervisor w r ill arrange for tempo- 

 rary office details from his ranger force. Such details must not interfere with 

 field work or occasion an increase in the force, and should not exceed one month 

 in duration. An important result of the detail will be the training and develop- 

 ment of the ranger. As a rule, office work outside the duties of the supervisor 

 and his deputy can be done better and more cheaply by clerical help. 



Misconduct. 



Conduct detrimental to the work of the Forest Service, or subversive of dis- 

 cipline, such as disobedience of orders, negligence, insubordination, dishonesty, 



