THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



are observed. The scaling of the logs to 

 determine the amount of payment to the 

 Government will many times be under his 

 supervision, although in the larger sales this 

 work, as well as the routine inspection of the 

 logging, is usually carried out by a special 

 body of expert lumbermen, who often bring 

 to it a much wider knowledge of the woods 

 than the men in actual charge of the 

 lumbering. 



In nearly every National Forest there are 

 areas upon which the trees have been de- 

 stroyed by fire. ^lany of these are so large 

 or so remote from seed-bearing trees that 

 natural reproduction will not suffice to re- 

 place the forest. In such localities planting 

 is needed, and for that purpose the Forest 

 Examiner must establish and conduct a 

 forest nursery. The decision on the kind of 

 trees to plant and on the methods of raising 

 and planting them, the collection of the seed, 



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