THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



on these points rests with the Department 

 of the Interior. The examination of lands 

 to determine whether they are agricultural 

 in character, and therefore should be opened 

 to settlement, is directed from this Branch. 



The uses to which National Forest lands 

 are put are almost unbelievably various. 

 Barns, borrow pits, botanical gardens, ceme- 

 teries and churches, dairies and dipping vats, 

 fox ranches and fish hatcheries, hotels, 

 pastures, pipe lines, power sites, residences, 

 sanitaria and school-houses, stores and 

 tunnels, these and many others make up, 

 with grazing and timber sales, the uses of the 

 National Forests, for which already more 

 than half a million permits have been issued. 

 This work also falls to the Branch of Lands. 



The sixth branch, that of Forest Products, 

 is concerned with the whole question of the 

 uses of wood and other materials produced 

 by the forest. Its principal work is con- 



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