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THE OPENING FOR FORESTERS. 
The best management of the national forest reserves will require 
the services of many trained men. The Bureau of Forestry, in the 
preparation of working plans for private, State, and Federal forest 
lands, in forest investigations, and in tree planting, is at present 
unable to find a sufficient number of suitably prepared foresters to 
supply its needs. The lack of foresters to care for the forest interests 
of several States is already making itself strongly felt. An increas- 
ing number of foresters will be required by private forest owners, as 
the great holders of timber lands come to realize more generally that 
conservative lumbering pays better than the methods now employed. 
The Forestry Bureau in the Philippines offers what is in some ways 
an unrivalled opportunity to trained men. 
As regards compensation, forestry offers the well-prepared man a 
fair living. It is naturally impossible to foretell what will be the 
pay of foresters in this country. It is reasonably certain, however, 
that their salaries will never be large. Trained foresters in the 
employ of the Bureau of Forestry now receive from $720 to $3,000 
a year. 
GIFFORD PINCHOT, 
Forester. 
Approved : 
JAMES WILSON, 
Secretary. 
WASHINGTON, D. C., January 15, 1902. 
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