CAREERS IN FORESTRY \\ 



from salary, the amount corresponding to the value and kind of 

 accommodations. 



Youth Training Program 



Considerable forestry work is now being done under the nationwide 

 Job Corps program, established in 1965-66 by the Office of Economic 

 Opportunity to assist young men from deprived backgrounds to find a 

 useful place in our society. Most of the nearly 100 Job Corps Con- 

 servation Centers are located in National Forests; others are on Na- 

 tional Park, Bureau of Land Management, and other Federal lands. 

 Almost 14,000 youths are enrolled in these centers at any one time, 

 receiving an intensive program of remedial basic education and on- 

 the-job entry-level vocational training in various trade skills. 



Foresters, as staff members in these Conservation Centers, work 

 alongside educators to give the Corpsmen volunteers the opportunity 

 for productive lives and decent income which they lacked in their 

 home communities. Foresters plan and administer the unique work 

 program. Projects are selected for the particular work-skills they pro- 

 vide, as well as for protecting and maintaining the Nation's forest, 

 water, soil, grassland, wildlife, and public recreation resources. A 

 number of foresters are also in administrative positions overseeing the 

 Job Corps centers. 



Forest Service Organization 



Organization of the Federal Forest Service now includes 26 divisions. 

 These are correlated into 5 groups. Some are fiscal and facilitating 

 divisions in which the nature of the work calls for training entirely 

 different from forestry, although forestry school graduates with special 

 aptitudes or experience often find opportunities in these divisions. 

 Men with professional forestry training are employed, in the main, 

 in work connected with the administration of Natiorial Forests, forestry 

 research, or State and private forestry cooperation. Certain other phases 

 of Federal forestry work, such as planning, extension, information, and 

 education work, allied to, or closely coordinated with the activities of 

 one or more of the divisions, have also provided employment for many 

 professional foresters. 



The Forest Service employs a permanent force of approximately 

 20,000. About 7,000 are professional foresters, 3,000 in other profes- 

 sions, and the remainder in administrative, custodial, and protection 

 and construction forces. About two-thirds are employed in the Na- 

 tional Forests as supervisors, assistant supervisors, rangers, etc., and 

 the remainder are engaged in administrative, scientific, and clerical 

 work at the Washington and regional headquarters, the Forest Prod- 

 ucts Laboratory, and the Forest and Range Experiment Stations, or 

 in State and private cooperation work in various parts of the country. 

 In addition, about 10,000 lookouts, patrolmen, firefighters, and other 

 nonprofessional workers are temporarily employed each year in the 

 National Forests during the fire season. 



Administration of the National Forests 



The National Forests cover a total net area of about 180 million 

 acres. Of this area more than 138 million acres are in the States 



