THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



District Forester's office is necessarily or- 

 ganized much on the same general lines as 

 the Washington headquarters. Thus, the 

 subjects of accounts, operation, silviculture, 

 grazing, lands, and forest research are all 

 represented in the District offices. In addi- 

 tion, a legal officer is necessarily attached to 

 each District office, and each District For- 

 ester has in his District one or more forest 

 experiment stations, employed mainly in 

 studying questions of growth and reproduc- 

 tion; and three forest insect field stations, 

 maintained for cooperation by the Bureau of 

 Entomology, are divided among the Districts. 

 While the work of the Washington office 

 is mainly that of guiding the work of the 

 National Forests along broad general lines, 

 through instructions to the District Forest- 

 ers, the office of each District Forester deals 

 directly with the Forest Supervisors, and so 

 with the handling of the National Forests. 



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