THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



be made, as well as of the cost of moving it 

 to the mill or to the railroad. 



The Forest Examiner must also consider, 

 in many cases, the building of logging roads 

 or railroads, timber slides, etc., and must 

 make a careful study of the material into 

 which the trees to be cut can best be worked 

 up, and of the value of such material in the 

 market. Most of all, however, he must 

 study, think over, and decide what he will 

 recommend as to the conditions which are to 

 govern the logging conditions by which the 

 protection of the forest is to be insured. 

 These conditions, fixed by his superiors upon 

 the report of the Forest Examiner, deter- 

 mine whether an individual timber sale is 

 forestry or forest destruction. This is the 

 central question in the administration of the 

 National Forests from the national point of 

 view. 



The principal objects of the conditions 



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