Show WAR TIME WORK OF FOREST FOB SERVI SEM C 4 how flow the work of tile tho forest bors sor vice was realigned to hect war a r con cc coni i editions Is described it iii tho the an annual I 1 report of tile the forester which in tile tho absence of at the head ot of tho the service is made by acting forester Por cater A p 1 potter tho the report also states that practically every torm form ot of uso 1180 ot of the forests was greater than over ever before that the receipts again bouchea a now high level with a total ot of 3 and that the increase in receipts pta over th taj previous year waa when the has been advanced tu to cover the full value of tho the grazing privilege says the report the income from the nation lit al forests will lio bo close to tho coat ot of operation tho the present annual cost is about ap an increase equal to that of at the last fiscal year would close the gap the forester henry S graveris Grav esis now serving with the american ex forces in franco france with a commission as lieutenant colonel tit in connection with too forest work for the supply of the needs ot at our overseas troops and those ot at tho the allies A number ot of other members of the forest 3 received commisa jolla ions lit in tho the tenth engineers forbat Fo reu reat while many moro more entered the ranks upon the rupture of diplomatic relations lons with gormany germany says tho the report tho the forest service began to plan tor for meeting the responsibilities which it if war followed it should as sume among these were emergency assistance in the protection of public works and transportation lines and the flie gathering of military reconnaissance information valuable to tho the war department wood and other forest products have almost innumerable uses in modern warfare it Is pointed out never before has the demand tor for exact knowledge been so urgent in the work relating to forest forcini forc iii utilization and forest products the resources of the service have hava been employed to tho the limit of their capacity since blua the war began in rendering assistance to the war and navy departments the emergency fleet corporation various committees of the council of national defense and manufacture era eis of war orders the peace timo program has been largely T tied aed tile the force and tho the work havo been centered a washington and madison every effort has been made to bring available knowledge knowl edgo to the attention of tile tho organ organizations Izat ions which have need tor for it and to 11 in anticipating heir A much aluch of the work has concerned aircraft material it has also problems connected connect ea with the construction of wooden slips and i vehicles assistance has been given to hardwood distillation plants in oi 01 der to increase tho the production of ac atone and other products needed for making A commercial demonstration has shown that costs of pr dicing ethyl al colial from wood r v j can call bo be materially reduced methods have been developed by aich walnut an all cau can bo be kilell kiln ried in fit a mitch deduced educed time v 1 f i compart comparatively hively little loss in ill goner yi it il the report say much as assistance sistar r W has been given on a great variety of war problems relating to forest to ie sources and the tha manufacture purchase and most efficient uso use of wood and other forest products in ill spite of all the many now demands upon on the service and the entrance upon military duties of a considerable number of its ito men the administrative and protective work ou oc the national forests was continued without disorganization upon request of the war department tho the preliminaries of recruiting rind and cring the tenth engineers forest handled increase In creaso of crop production lit in and near the forests was stimulated and tho the forage resource of tho the forests iraq i wai mado made available for emergency emerlon cl y use up to the limit of safety in the latter part of at tho the summer aal ericason peason rf of extreme dan ger mado W worse orse in some local localities ittes by an prevalence of incent warl wan passed through with relatively small loss of properly and ana w ith no reported potted re loss of lite life |