THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



to continue in the employ of the Govern- 

 ment. If he is unfit he may be dropped, for 

 there are many young and ambitious men 

 ready to step into his place. If he makes 

 good he is promoted to the grade of Forest 

 Examiner and is put definitely in charge of 

 certain lines of professional work ; always, of 

 course, under the direction of the Supervisor, 

 of whom he becomes the adviser on all prob- 

 lems involving technical forestry. 



The most important tasks of the trained 

 Forester on a National Forest are the prepa- 

 ration of working plans for the use of the 

 forest by methods which will protect and 

 perpetuate it as well, and the carrying out 

 of the plans when made. This is forestry in 

 the technical sense of the word. It involves 

 a thorough study of the kinds of timber, their 

 amount and location, their rate of gro\\i:h, 

 their value, the ease or difficulty of their 

 reproduction, and the methods by which the 

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