THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



with those preliminary phases of the work 

 of forestry through which the National 

 Forest Service has already passed. Much 

 progress, however, is being made, and we 

 may fairly count not only that State forest 

 organizations will ultimately exist in every 

 State, but that the State Foresters will exert 

 a steadily increasing influence on forest per- 

 petuation in the United States. 



THE FOREST SERVICE IN 

 WASHINGTON 



A DESCRIPTION of what a Forester has to 

 do which did not include the work of the 

 Government Foresters at the National Capi- 

 tal would necessarily be incomplete. The 

 following outline may, therefore, help to 

 round out the picture. 



The Washington headquarters of the 

 Forest Service are directly in charge of the 



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