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experience, appointments to the position of forest 

 supervisor are made by the promotion of competent 

 forest rangers or forest assistants, when they can be 

 found in the State or Territory in which the vacan- 

 cies exist. Should there be no thoroughly satisfactory 

 resident forest rangers or forest assistants, examina- 

 tions of other applicants are held. 



The qualifications for the position of supervisor 

 include all those required of rangers, as hereafter out- 

 lined, with superior technical, business, and adminis- 

 trative ability. -Applicants should not'only be familiar 

 with every detail of the work of the rangers and with 

 the conditions of the forest region involved, but should 

 be able to handle men, to deal with all classes of persons 

 who do business with the forest reserve management, 

 and to conduct the transactions and correspondence of 

 the office. Knowledge of technical forestry is most 

 desirable, but not always essential. Candidates for 

 the position of supervisor are required to furnish the 

 most convincing proof of their moral and business 

 responsibility. 



While certain general qualifications are required in 

 every case, special fitness for employment in a special 

 region is always considered. In many heavily forested 

 regions knowledge of timber and lumbering is more 

 important than familiarity with the live-stock business, 

 while the opposite is true in several reserves where 

 grazing problems are numerous and little timber is 

 sold. 



Supervisors must give their entire time to the service. 

 They have full charge of their reserves, plan and direct 

 .all work, have entire disposition of rangers and other 



