THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



The uses to which National Forest lands 

 are put are almost unbelievably various. 

 Bams, borrow pits, botanical gardens, ceme- 

 teries and churches, dairies and dipping vats, 

 fox ranches and fish hatcheries, hotels, 

 pastures, pipe lines, power sites, residences, 

 sanitaria and school-houses, stores and 

 tunnels, these and many others make up, 

 with grazing and timber sales, the uses of the 

 National Forests, for which already more 

 than half a million permits have been issued. 

 This work also falls to the Branch of Lands. 



The third branch, that of Silviculture, is 

 the most important of all. It has oversight 

 of the practice of forestry on all the National 

 Forests, and of all scientific forest studies 

 in the National Forests and outside. It is 

 here that the conditions in the contracts 

 under which the larger timber sales are made 

 are finally examined and approved, and here 

 are found the inspectors whose duty it is not 



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