Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-27
Duties of District Foresters.

! Each national forest will be in charge
! of a district forester. The work at is
| trict headquarters will be distributed
among four Offices-operation. grazing
siviculture and products-each equipped
with men of special training for the work
; of their Offices,
| The Office of operation will be charged
with responsibility for the protection OF
national forests. for the building of roads
trails and other permanent Improvement $
upon them. for the organization of the
force on national forests and with the
supervision of all business relating to the
special use of national forest resources
The office of silviculture will have super
vision of the free use and sale of timber
from national forests. forest planting
upon them. and will conduct forest studies
on national forests, we'll as in CO.
operation with private owners in the dis
trict. The office of grazing will supervise
grazing business in the district, except
for the actual fixing of allowances,
periods and rates. and will make studies
looking to the improvement of the forage
crop on national forests The office of
products will make both independently
and in cooperation with private owners
studies leading to a more profitable use
OF timber and Off national forests
within the district and to their preserva-
tive treatment.
From the district foreSters down the
up of men picked for their proved pac-
ity. for their thorough training and for
their experience in the west. Most of
them are men who not only have worked
in the wesi after they entered in the
service. but who lived in the west before
they took UP the government forest work.
MANY of them are men who formerly were
employed on the national fores,s and
have been promoted to larger response
bilites as a result of their high efficiency.
off hn vii off x,rl1i .1
has lust been announced. is as follows:
First District.
Montana northeastern Washington,
northern Idaho, northern Wyoming and
! northwestern South Dakota. Headquar-
| tiers: Missoula. Mont
". B. Greeley. district forester; F. "
Silcox. assistant district forester.
r. II. Rutledge. chief. office of opera
| ton: r. Y. Stuart, assistant chief; j. p.
Martin, chief engineer E. w. Kramer
| and T. L.. Day, engineers: +. Is. Quiggle.
| chief. section of occupancy; p. j. O'Brien.
claims clerk; j. Il. Reach, settlement
clerk; @. O. White. uses clerk; H. l.
Loving, fiscal agent: o. NJ Void, j. y
IrbanOwicz Miss Grace NJ. Curtin and
P. s. Gray, accounts clerks; r. l.. Camp
bell, chief. section of maintenance; Miss
Belle G. Warren, Miss Lydia jacob and
Guptill H. F.. Trip and Mrs. L. II.
Bryan. craftsmen.
c. H. Adams. chief. office of grazing:
w. s. Perrine, assistant chief. and Miss
B. Todd. clerk.
w. r. Wheaton, chief, office of products:
f. ]. Rockwell assistant chief, and Miss
Eva Slocum. computing clerk.
A w. Cooper, chief office Of sjlvculture:
D. r. Mason. assistant chief: f. l. Terry
chief section Of silvics: w. T. Stone, as
sistant: E. c. Clifford. chief section of
planting: w. NJ. Aiken. law officer; s. j.
Humeston. assistant law officer: j. F.
Preston, J. D. Warner, j. A. Fitzwater,
G. =. Macdonald X. w. Woodward, W.
B. Piper. l.. s. Murphy. J. ST J. Benedict,
T.. d. Fletcher and p. r. Hicks. fores
assistants: f. y. Salzman. A. J. Norton
and w. T. Colt. lumbermen: g. w. Glea-
son, X. P. Mclaughlin. J. w. STREET, and
J. -. Jones, land examiners: G. B. Swim.
assistant land examiner: II. NJ. Booth. G.
a. McElroy and c. ]. Sullivan expert
miners.
The following have been assigned 10
the stenographic work In this district
Misses +. l.. Sinclair T. NJ. Linell, Flor
ence Kelly, Bessie G. Shimman, &. NJ.