88 FOREST RESERVE MANUAL. 



RULES GOVERNING THE APPOINTMENT, DUTIES, AND 

 STANDING OF HEAD RANGERS IN FOREST RESERVES. 



APPOINTMENT. 



Head rangers will only be employed in forest reserves 

 where their services, as such, are needed. They will be re- 

 quired to pass an examination tending to show their qualifi- 

 cations, experience, and efficiency in forest work, especially 

 forest surveying, timber estimating, scaling, logging, the 

 methods and principles of general forestry, and ready knowl- 

 edge of our forest trees. 



The salaries paid them will vary, and will be fixed by the 

 Secretary in accordance with jjhe services required and ren- 

 dered in the reserve where employed. 



They will be required to keep one or more saddle horses for 

 their own transportation in the reserves, but they will be 

 allowed traveling expenses wherever their work requires 

 other means of transportation. 



They will be suspended or removed by the Secretary of the 

 Interior on established charges. 



Examinations for appointment will generally be had at the 

 office of the forest supervisor for the reserve where the head 

 ranger is to be employed. A printed form of set questions, 

 to be approved by the Department, will be furnished the 

 supervisor from which to conduct the examination. Each 

 applicant will be required to write out his answers to the 

 questions in the examination papers in the presence of the 

 supervisor, unaided, and to swear to the same. Upon direc- 

 tion of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the 

 forest supervisor will set convenient days for examinations. 



Examinations may also be held, in the discretion of the 

 Commissioner, in places to be designated by him. 



DUTIES. 



They will act as technical assistants to the forest super- 

 visors, and, as such, will survey and map the reserve areas, 

 and will be given charge of timber cutting in sales and "free 

 use" cases, and will direct the marking, cutting, and scaling 

 of timber, and the cleaning up of the cutting areas, and will 

 inspect cuttings and attend to other reserve work. They 



