WORK OF THE UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE 7 
used for the benefit of the home builder first of all, upon whom depends the 
best permanent use of lands and resources alike. The continued prosperity of 
the agricultural, lumbering, mining, and livestock interests is directly depend- 
ent upon a permanent and accessible supply of water, wood, and forage, as well 
as upon the present and future use of these resources under businesslike regu- 
lations enforced with promptness, effectiveness, and common sense. 
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FIGURE 3.—One of the mean jobs in Forest Service work is fighting fire. It isn’t romatie. 
It is hard, hot, suffocating, dangerous labor. 
In the management of each reserve local questions will be decided upon local 
grounds, the dominant industry will be considered first, but with as little re- 
striction to minor industries as may be possible; sudden changes in industrial 
conditions will be avoided by gradual adjustment after due notice, and where 
conflicting interests must be reconciled the question will always be decided 
from the standpoint of the greatest good to the greatest number in the long run. 
Lands which are more valuable for agriculture than for forestry 
purposes have been excluded from the national forests either by 
changes in the forest boundaries or by being opened to settlement 
and entry under the Forest Homestead Act of June 11, 1906. The 
act of August 10, 1912, which directed that the national-forest lands 
