34 OUR NATIONAL FORESTS 



phone connections, a more accessible winter q[uar- 

 ters is occupied from October to May. 



The force of men the Forest Supervisor has 

 working under him varies of course with the amount 

 of work to be performed. The permanent force is 

 usually from 10 to 15 men, which during the fire 

 season may be increased to from 25 to 40 and in 

 cases of great fire emergency sometimes to several 

 hundred men, by the addition of temporary em- 

 ployees. 



The Forest Assistant. The other permanent 

 men on a National Forest are the Forest Assistant 

 or Forest Examiner, Forest Rangers, and a Forest 

 clerk with his assistant, the Stenographer and Type- 

 writer. The Forest Assistant or Examiner ranks 

 next to the Deputy and his work is directed by the 

 Forest Supervisor, to whom he makes his reports. 

 The Forest Assistant is the technical man of the 

 Forest force, who upon making good is promoted to 

 Forest Examiner. He is employed upon such tech- 

 nical lines of work as the examination and mapping 

 of forest areas ; reports on applications for the pur- 

 chase of timber; marking, scaling, and managing 

 timber sales ; the survey of boundaries ; and nursery 

 and planting work. 



