12 THE PROFESSION OF FOEESTEY. 



supervisors are men who have been promoted either from forest 

 assistant or from forest ranger. 



With the exception of the Forester and the Associate Forester the 

 salaries of the higher officials in administrative and investigative 

 work in the Washington and District offices vary from $2,000 to 

 $3,750 per year. The salaries of supervisors range from $1,400 to 

 $2; 700; of deputy supervisors from $1,400 to $1,700; of forest exam- 

 ners from $1,600 to $2,200; of forest assistants from $1,100 to 

 $2,000; and of rangers from $900 to $1,500 per year. 



The Forest Service force has increased within a comparatively 

 short time from only a few men to a total of between three and four 

 thousand. Until 1911 practically every person who passed the 

 civil service examination for forest assistant was taken on the force. 

 There is now, however, a complete administrative organization with 

 a specffied number of positions, and the future growth of the Service 

 will necessarily be much slower. This has led to the general impres- 

 sion that unless there are very largely increased appropriations there 

 will be no opportunity for new men in the Forest Service. In a sense 

 this is true, because there will be but a small increase in the number 

 of positions. At the same time it is Hkely that a certain number of new 

 men wall be needed every year. The Forest Service is a very large 

 organization, and a new one, and a great many changes in personnel 

 are occurring all the tune. Doubtless it wiU ultimately be a very 

 much larger organization than at present. It is inevitable that 

 many of the Forests will be subdivided, as it becomes possible to 

 make their administration more intensive, and that the investiga- 

 tive work will develop considerably. 



For replacement in the ranks of forest assistants some twenty 

 new men will probably be required each year. In addition there 

 will be opportunity for a number of men to enter the Service as 

 rangers, with the possibihty of promotion later to more technical 

 positions. Inasmuch as the high-grade forest schools are now 

 turning out several hundred men each year, this means that the 

 time has arrived when the Forest Service can no longer take care of 

 all their graduates, and that a considerable number must look else- 

 where for employment. 



STATE WORK. 



During the last few years there has been a constantly increasing 

 activity in forestry among the various States. Whereas only a few 

 years ago not over half a dozen States employed trained foresters, 

 to-day more than 20 different States have some kind of organization 

 for forest work. These include the New England States, New York, 

 Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky, 

 Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, Colorado, 

 Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California. 



