38 OUR NATIONAL FORESTS 



build cabins and trails, oversee grazing business, 

 investigate mining and agricultural claims, report 

 upon applications, and report upon and arrest for 

 the violation of Forest laws and regulations. 



The Forest Clerk. The Forest Clerk performs 

 the clerical work and the book-keeping in the Forest 

 Supervisor's office. He sometimes has a Stenogra- 

 pher and Tji'pewTiter to assist him and to do the 

 mechanical work of correspondence. Lumbermen 

 are specialists who are thoroughly well versed in all 

 that pertains to logging, milling, scaling, and cruis- 

 ing timber. They are assigned temporarily to For- 

 ests where need for their work arises. Scalers are 

 men thoroughly familiar with the art of scaling or 

 measuring logs, ties, poles, cordwood and other for- 

 est products. Planting Assistants are specialists 

 in nursery and planting work. Their duties in- 

 clude the preparation of seed beds, seed sowing, 

 transplanting and care of seedlings, and field plant- 

 ing. They are assigned to the Forest Service nur- 

 series. 



Temporary Laborers, Forest Guards, and Field 

 Assistants are employed during the field season 

 when additional work on the National Forests war- 

 rants it. Forest Guards perform temporary 



