East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-02-15
NEW GOVERNMENT
POSITIONS MADE
THREE GRAZING EXAMINERS
FOR NATIONAL FORESTS
Applicants Must Be Over Twenty
Years of Age Must Be Botanists
With Range Experimence - For
estry Service Is After Scientific In
formation,

A new government position is dis
closed by the announcement by the
U. S. civil service commission of an
examination which will be held Feb
ruary 90 and "a to find three graz
ing examiners for the forest service.
The positions will pay salary OF ST.
200 a year at entrance.
The announcement specifies that
the applicants must be men, at least
20 years old, and possessed of at least
one seasons experience in handling
range stock, together with ct least
one year of technical training in spe-
Gifted botanical studies.
The establishment of this position
is in line with the objects which the
department of agriculture has always
had in view in its management of
grazing on the national forests. 1t
is not merely seeking to prevent cat
tie and sheep from doing damage to
forest growth and watershed condi-
tons. as they Craze on the herbage
which is yearly produced in the open
forests, parks and high mountain
meadows within the national forests.
Range-fed stock are a matter of de-
cided Importance to the American
people in these days Of rising prices
for food products and diminishing
supplies, in proportion to population
of livestock; and therefore Secretary
Wilson intends that every acre of ma
tional forest range shall be made tc
produce as much forage as it is ca.
As- icrn y, h
carrying out of the other purpose:
for which the national forests are
maintained.
Ever since the forest service tool
over the management of the nationa
forests. it has been studying the range
problem along with its regulation o.
grazing. In the beginning it wa!
confronted with the fact that yer!
large part of the range had beer
badly abused and depleted through
the competition of rival owners be
fore any restrictions had been pu
upon them, and by overcrowding ant
bad methods of handling stock. 1t
supporting power had in consequence
been greatly reduced, and was stead
lily declining To enable overgraze,
the extension of overgrazed condition
TO new areas. the amount Of stock t
be allowed on the forests was every
where carefully prescribed. The re
suits were then observed, and if
appeared that there was still over
use of the range, the numbers pei
mitted were cut down still further. Q
the other hand, where recuperatio
has taken place the allowance
stock has been correspondingly il
creased.
The proposal to appoint specials
who are both thoroughly trained bo
anists and men of experience
range matters indicates recognitic
of the fact that to attain the highe
point of range productivity the be
scientific knowledge must be. appn'
to the study of the problems of 70
age production and utilization.
stock Craze on the range, the effe
on the different kinds of vegetatrt
differs both with its palatability
unpalatability and with its capaci
to produce seed, its time of seedir
its resistance to trampling, its ma
ner of growth and many other el
mentS.
What is aimed at now is nothil
less than to find out all the things
which depend the production of I
largest amount Of beef mutton, wo
and hides on a given area. This /
wolves learning how both to restr
and to time the grazing so as not
interfere with the reproduction of
most valuable elements in the fora
crop. how 70 prevent unnecessary Il
TO feed through trampling and
other ways, how to exterminate p