THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



the National Forests, with all their resources, 

 boundaries, and interior holdings, is in 

 charge of the Branch of Operation. So is 

 the immense amount of drafting which is 

 necessary in the other work of the Service, 

 and the photographic laboratory in which 

 maps are reproduced and where permanent 

 photographic records of the condition of the 

 forest are made. 



The second branch, that of Lands, has to 

 do with the questions which arise from the 

 use of the land in the National Forests for 

 farming or ranching, mining, and a very 

 wide variety of other purposes, and with the 

 exceedingly numerous and intricate ques- 

 tions which arise because there are about 

 20,600,000 acres of land within the bounda- 

 ries of the National Forests whose title has 

 already passed from the Government. The 

 boundaries of the National Forests also are 

 constantly being examined to determine 



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