on the piles, and cull logs should either be peeled and the 

 bark burned , or the "bark destroyed by piling brush over the 

 logs and burning. 



present Policy. 



Our present policy is to carry on control work in 

 epidemic infestations in commercial and accessible timber, in- 

 sofar as funds will allow, until the number of infested trees 

 become so small that they can be treated annually by the regu- 

 lar forest force and a small amount of temporary labor, if 

 needed. To accomplish this a fixed sum will be expended year- 

 ly, until all the Forests in the District have been fully 

 covered and epideiaic infestations in valuable timber are under 

 thorough control. In this work the ranger must help to the ex- 

 tent of becoming familiar with the infestation on his district 

 Rangers will be called upon for reports to be used as a basis 

 for control work and v/ill need to know the causes of infesta- 

 tions and methods of control in order that they may direct 

 this work on their districts- Insect control will be as much 

 a part ofrthe work of Forest officers as timber sales, grazing, 

 or fire protection. At present the most attention v/ill be 

 given to commercial trees, such as yellow pnd sugar pine, fol- 

 lowed by Douglas fir, Jeffrey pine, and white and rod fir. 

 Other species infested will no doubt be protected in the futurr 

 They are, however, mostly local in occurrence or of very little 

 commercial importance. 



