THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



The same branch takes charge of the lands 

 as soon as they have been acquired. 



The foregoing description of the work 

 which is done in Washington by the Forest 

 Service may help to make clear the great 

 variety of tasks to which a Forester may be 

 required to set his hand, and emphasizes the 

 need of a broad training not strictly con- 

 fined to purely technical lines. It would be 

 defective as a description, however, and 

 would fail to show the spirit in which the 

 work is done, if no mention were made of 

 the Service Meeting, at which the responsi- 

 ble heads of each branch and of the work of 

 the Forester's office meet once a week to dis- 

 cuss every problem which confronts the Ser- 

 vice and every phase of its work. This meet- 

 ing is the centre where all parts of the work 

 of the Service come together and arrange 

 their mutual cooperation, and it is also the 

 spring from which the essential democracy 



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