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heavy responsibility, and the mass of the new work made demands 

 which could only be met by giving to it for months many hours a day 

 beyond the regular hours. How well they met all the demands upon 

 them is shown by the fact that the new methods were applied and 

 showed results at once upon the transfer, so that the usually unpro- 

 ductive period of adjustment was conspicuous by its absence. 



The organization of the Forest Service is shown by the chart on 

 page 200. 



INSPECTION. 



, The Section of Inspection examines and reports on the conduct and 

 process of the whole field of work conducted by the Forest Service. 

 The inspection work was not formally set apart in a section until after 

 the beginning of the present fiscal year, and therefore calls for no 

 more specific mention in this report. The inspection work of the 

 Service lies at the foundation of its efficiency. It is believed to be in 

 thoroughly good condition. 



RESERVE BOUNDARIES. 



Examinations for reserve boundaries were conducted during the 

 past year with a combined efficiency and economy which will produce 

 results out of all propor/;ion to the cost, and which would have been 

 altogether impossible of attainment but for the ability and the devo- 

 tion of the men intrusted with the work. All forest reserves created 

 during the past year had previously been examined by this section. 

 Fourteen men were engaged in this work during portions of the field 

 seasons of 1904 and 1905 in nine of the western States and Territories. 



PTTBIiICATION AND EDUCATION. 



During the past year it has become more evident than ever before 

 that to secure the full benefits of the progress in technical forestry 

 made by the Service an active campaign of popular education is called 

 for. The large owners of timber land form a class quick to see the 

 practical bearing of forestry upon their own interests. The small 

 owners, whose aggregate holdings constitute so large a portion of our 

 forest wealth, are less easily reached. ■ Through the press, through the 

 avenues of education opened by school instruction and industrial 

 training, through concrete example, and through the regular publi- 

 cations of the Service, popular opinion must be formed and the 

 knowledge of what constitutes the right use of forest land must be 

 widely inculcated. 



The Forest Service has now reached the point at which it can 

 undertake with confidence to advise and guide the forest owners of 

 this country in wise and safe methods of forest management. But 

 not all of the forest owners have yet reached the point at which they 

 are ready to seek and to adopt this advice. During the past year defi- 

 nite plans were made and put in effect to open more widely the stores 

 of information which have been gathered, and this work, than which 

 none more important lies in the immediate future, will be extended 

 and pressed forward just as rapidly as men and means will permit. 



