THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



office is necessarily organized much on the 

 same general lines as the Washington head- 

 quarters. Thus, the subjects of accounts, 

 operation, silviculture, grazing, lands, and 

 forest products are all represented in the 

 District offices. In addition, a legal officer 

 is necessarily attached to each District office, 

 and each District Forester has in his Dis- 

 trict one or more forest experiment stations, 

 employed mainly in studying questions of 

 growth and reproduction; and three forest 

 insect field stations, maintained in coopera- 

 tion with the Bureau of Entomology, are 

 divided among the six Districts. 



While the work of the Washington office 

 is mainly that of guiding the work of the 

 National Forests along broad general lines, 

 through instructions to the District Forest- 

 ers, the office of each District Forester deals 

 directly with the Forest Supervisors, and so 

 with the handling of the National Forests. 



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