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protection, administrative, and improvement work; 

 Field Assistants, usually students of forestry serv- 

 ing their apprenticeships, are usually employed at 

 minor technical work and timber cruising; Tempo- 

 rary Laborers are employed by the day or month at 

 any kind of improvement or maintenance work. 



Forest Service Meetings. A general meeting of 

 the Forest force is usually held annually to give the 

 Forest officers the benefit of each other's experience, 

 to keep in touch with the entire work of the Forest, 

 and to promote "esprit-de-corps." The time and 

 place of the meeting depends upon circumstances, 

 but it is usually held at a time of the year when 

 there is least danger from fire. Often joint meet- 

 ings are held with the forces of adjacent Forests. 

 This annual meeting idea is carried through the en- 

 tire Forest Service. The Forest Supervisors in 

 each administrative district usually meet at the 

 district headquarters once a year and the District 

 Foresters of all the districts together with repre- 

 sentative officers from the Washington office usu- 

 ally meet annually at some centrally located dis- 

 trict office such as the one at Ogden, Utah. These 

 meetings assist greatly in keeping all the work in 

 the various branches of the Service up to the same 



