58 CIR. 211, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
planting assistants are employed on the forests in the 
work of timber appraisal, cruising, scaling, and forest 
planting. Like all other permanent employees, they 
are appointed only after a civil-service examination. 
Forest guards are temporary employees appointed 
during the seasons of greatest fire danger. 
The permanent force employed by the Forest Sery- 
ice numbers approximately 2,700. Of these, about 
two-thirds are employed upon the national forests as 
supervisors, assistant supervisors, rangers, ete., and 
the remainder are engaged in administrative, scien- 
tific, and clerical work at the Washington and re- 
gional headquarters, the Forest Products Laboratory, 
and the forest and range experiment stations. In 
addition, more than 2,500 forest guards are employed 
on the national forests during the fire season each 
year, 
For sale 2 the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, 
33 D. C. Price 10 cents. 
