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RECORD. 



This office, in charge of which is the Special Fiscal Agent, consists 

 of three sections, which have oversight of accounts, of the purchase 

 of supplies, and of the general maintenance of the office equipment of 

 the Service for its work. 



RESERVE ORGANIZATION. 



This office has charge of the reserve force and its equipment and of 

 the examination of lands for the creation of new forest reserves or for 

 eliminations from and additions to existing reserves. 



For administrative purposes the reserves are grouped into three 

 districts: The northern, comprising Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North 

 and South Dakota, and Minnesota; the western, comprising Washing- 

 ton, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Alaska; and the southern, com- 

 prising Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, 

 and Utah. Through an inspector in charge of each district this office 

 has direct oversight of personnel, equipment, and expenditures. It 

 also examines all matters of an administrative character which are 

 prepared in the other offices, and forms the central agency in which 

 the work of all branches of reserve administration is brought together 

 and harmonized. 



The section of reserve boundaries ascertains through field examina- 

 tions the suitability of public lands for reserves and compiles the data 

 on reserve conditions gained in the field. It is the purpose of the 

 Government to include no large bodies of agricultural land in forest 

 reserves. Through the examinations made by this section such agri- 

 cultural lands are opened to settlers by changing the boundaries. By 

 the working of the law of June 11, 1906, agricultural lands of small 

 extent within reserves, when so directed by the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture, are opened to settlement. 



The permanent field force of the forest reserves now contains the 

 grades of forest inspector, assistant forest inspector, forest supervisor, 

 deputy forest supervisor, forest assistant, forest ranger, deputy forest 

 ranger, assistant forest ranger, and forest guard. 



Except in the case of forest inspector, assistant forest inspector, 

 and forest assistant, whose compensation will depend on varying cir- 

 cumstances, pay will be fixed as follows, as fast as the necessary funds 

 are available and the promotions are earned: 



Per year. 



Forest supervisor $1, 800 to |2, 500 



Deputy forest supervisor - 1, 500 to 1, 700 



Forest ranger 1, 200 to 1, 400 



Deputy forest ranger 1, 000 to 1, 100 



Assistant forest ranger 800 to 900 



Forestguard 600 to 720 



