The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-01-25

management the quantity produced
can be increased. its kind regulated
and its most desirable utilization Sc
cured
"The wild life of the forests has
various kinds of values material
esthetic, scientific educational. AL
should be recognized. Unregulated
! use means its impairment; intensive
use, often its eventual destruction as
a resource. Expert knowledge of all
the factors that determine its amount
and character on q given area, COM
: bined with just appraisal of all the
from it, are fundamental requisites for
It's proper administration"
Supervisors Problems.
In many cities west of the Great
Plains you will find national forest
headquarters in the business sections
of these places. There are such offices
In Seattle Portland and Los Angeles !;
in Denver and Salt Lake City; in Mis-
soua, Mont, and in Phoenix Ariz.
You will also find these headquarters
in dozens of little places that you
never heard of. Fifteen years ago al
most all the forest headquarters were
in little settlements or out-of-the-way
towns close to the forests themselves
But for the better service of the pub
lie it has been necessary to move
them, where possible, to more access
ible points.
"The forest supervisor says Her
bert A. Smith, assistant forester in
charge of public relations, forest serv-
ice, in a bulletin. SIS first and fore
most a business man, the local man
ager of an important enterprise, Of
some million acres of land permanent
~ devoted to the advancement of the
general welfare. His duties as
manager are partly those of an execu-
tive in charge of property which
must be protected, developed and i'm
proved. But they are also very large
ly those of a sales manager. What
he is engaged in selling, however, is
more than the things that
DllDS III lIoilC. " tIC SONCiliihCht. II
is service to the individual, the com
munity and the nation.
All Technical Men.
1.-THE supervisor may or may not be
a college graduate who has prepared
for his profession as would an engi-
neer or student of agriculture at a
state university; but he is always a
graduate of the school of the woods
Over one-third Of the 152 supervisors
have been through a professional
school of forestry. But all should be
counted technical men. for to be quail
earn. through years of service, the
practice of forestry as it is applied on
the national forests.
Before finding out just what this
means. we may profitably note what |
sort of business goes on in the super
visor's office On his desk is his morn |
ng mail-perhaps 81 or 60 letters, If |
It does not happen to be busy time.
Some are from people whose homes
ire within or near the forests and
Who have written for permit to cut |
;ome sfree-use' timber for fuel, fencing
,r lumber, or who want summer en-
)loyment as fire guards, or who are +
lot satisfied with the way the local |
anger is dealing with them For we
must remember that our general sales
manager for the forest, in the person
# the supervisor, is not the man who
oes most of the actual selling.
"1'he men in first-hand contact with
he local public are the forest rangers
"a goodly body, all in the classified
fviT service and, therefore, selected
n the basis of proved qualifications
he forest ranger has almost become
amous, collectively speaking, in the
Vest and even in the East. That is
artly because he is a somewhat pic
nresque and romantic figure as we'll
s highly useful citizen and public
ff1cer He is indeed in a sense the
eystone of the forest service arch !;
II the rest of the administrative or
anization leads up to him and he Is
le final unit that completes the sys-
,m
"Since the rangers are the actual
alesmen sof service TO the local pub
c. If they don't mind their p's and
S the supervisor quickly hears Of tt /
I'd very likely also If they do. Il
Grazing Problem. II
"When the forest service took \
large Of the forests in 1905 the most !
'essing administrative problem was
hat to do about grazing. UnreguIat II
grazing was proving seriously in II
rious both to the growth of timber Il
I'd to water supplies. and the range X
self was fast losing productive ca X
city. Mnny persons advocated en- II
ely closing the forests to the grazing Il
sheep No one would think. Of sug- Il
sting snch policy now 7sf~ XIX
The timber is still too far distant If