tions are in keeping with the responsibilities. When Government liv- 

 ing quarters are furnished, a salary deduction is made. The amount 

 varies with the value and kind of accommodations, but ordinarily it 

 is from $240 to $420 annually. 



The work of the Forest Service was considerably expanded from 

 1933 to 1942 by the emergency relief and recovery activities. Forest 

 work for unemployed youth brought into the forests many thousands 

 of men in Civilian Conservation Corps camps. With these activities 

 came a demand for foresters and men otherwise qualified for field super- 

 visory positions. Hundreds of young men recently graduated from 

 professional schools found opportunities which offered an immediate 

 chance to gain both a living and valuable forestry experience. The 

 social and economic value of forest work is large, and as an outlet for 

 unemployed labor forestry is now well recognized. Public works pro- 

 grams in forest conservation, or greater recognition of the need to 

 have this work done as a regular continuing public activity, may 

 broaden the field for the employment of foresters as directing and 

 technical personnel. 



Divisions in the Forest Service 



Organization of the Federal Forest Service now includes 23 divi- 

 sions. These are correlated into 6 groups. Some are fiscal and facili- 

 tating 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 divi 

 sions. Men with professional forestry training are employed, in the 

 main, in work that may be grouped under the administration of na- 

 tional forests, research or technical investigations, and State and private 

 forest cooperation. Certain other phases of Federal forestry work, such 

 as the guayule rubber and other emergency projects undertaken during 

 the war, and various phases of 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 pro- 

 fessional foresters. 



The Forest Service employs a permanent force of approximately 

 7,000. Of these, about 2,100 are professional foresters, and the re- 

 mainder clerical, administrative, or custodial employees and protection 

 and construction forces. About two-thirds are employed on 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 Products Lab- 

 oratory, and the forest and range experiment stations, or in State and 

 private cooperation work in various parts of the country. In addition, 

 about 6,000 lookouts, patrolmen, fire fighters, and other nonprofes- 

 sional workers are temporarily employed each year on the national 

 forests during the fire season. 



Administration of the National Forests 



The national forests and purchase units cover a total net area of 

 approximately 178 million acres. Of this area more than 140 mil- 

 lion acres are in the public-land States west of the Mississippi River, 

 chiefly in the mountains of the far West. More than 21 million acres 

 are in Alaska, and approximately 17 million acres in the Eastern States 

 and Puerto Rico. 



The protection, administration, and development of this vast area 



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