CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Foreword 11 



PART I. ADMINISTRATION OP THE NATIONAL FORESTS: 



Relation of Forest officers to the public 13 



Purpose and location of National Forests 13 



History of the National Forests 14 



The Forest Service and the National Forests 15 



Establishment 15 



Purpose of administration 15 



Organization 16 



Administrative districts 16 



Qualifications and duties of Forest officers 16 



Supervisors and deputy supervisors 16 



Forest examiners 16 



Rangers 16 



Lumbermen 17 



Sealers 17 



Planting assistants 17 



Forest guards, field assistants, and temporary laborers 17 



Forest clerks ^ 17 



Authority of Forest officers 18 



Accessibilty of public records 18 



Associations of Forest users 18 



How to remit money - 18 



PART II. TIMBER SALES, TIMBER SETTLEMENT, FREE USE: 



Timber sales 19 



National Forest timber for sale 19 



Purchaser's first step 19 



Four classes of sales 19 



Advertisement of sale 19 



Deposit with bid 



Awarding a sale 20 



Financial standing of applicant 20 



Bonds 20 



The sale contract 20 



General stipulations 20 



Fire protection 21 



When cutting may begin 21 



Advance cutting 21 



Private sale of advertised timber 21 



Unadvertised sales to settlers and farmers -r 21 



Marking trees to be cut 22 



Scaling timber 22 



Log lengths 22 



Special rule for Alaska and west slope of Cascades 22 



Unnecessary loss in manufacture not considered 



Measuring diameters 



Merchantable material 22 



Ties 22 



Shakes and shingle bolts 



Lagging 



Poles, posts, etc 



Stamping logs and other material 23 



Payments for timber 23 



Refunds 24 



Determination of stumpage rates 24 



Period of cutting 24 



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