Excerpt from Forest Rangers' Catechism: Questions and Answers on the National Forests of the California Region The average citizen has no conception of some of the technical terms or trade names used by forest officers in their everyday work. Such terms as grazing allotments, improvements, timber appraisals, special use, and the like, either mean nothing to the average inquirer or at least may convey only a hazy or distorted idea of what one is talking about. Regulation of grazing, which assures forage for live stock and the stabilization of the stock-raising industry; regulation of timber cutting, which provides for an unfailing future supply of timber; forest protection, which aids in the regulation of water flow and the prevention of erosion, all mean a great deal if rightly under stood. The fact that public resources are being so managed that they supply a demand and bring in a revenue, and yet are not being injured by use, should interest the citizen, who is a part owner and shareholder in the national forests. The Forest Service is a decentralized Federal agency, and the idea of bureaucracy is often corrected when it is seen how many important questions are settled on the ground and how few are referred for decision to the Forester at Washington, or even to the regional forester at San Francisco. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.