THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



the National Forests, with all their resources, 

 boundaries, and interior holdings, is in 

 charge of the Branch of Operation. So is 

 the immense amount of drafting which is 

 necessary in the other work of the" Service, 

 and the photographic laboratory in which 

 maps are reproduced and where permanent 

 photographic records of the condition of the 

 forest are made. 



The third branch, that of Silviculture, is 

 the most important of all. It has oversight 

 of the practice of forestry on all the National 

 Forests, and of all scientific forest studies 

 in the National Forests and outside. It is 

 here that the conditions in the contracts 

 under which the larger timber sales are made 

 are finally examined and approved, and here 

 are found the inspectors whose duty it is not 

 only to see that the work is well done, but 

 to labor constantly for improvements in 

 methods as well as in results. Here centres 

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