ABSTRACT
Since it is clear that the organizations for national forest administration might disintegrate if each field officer made entirely independent decisions about the handling of his district, many decisions are made for them in advance of specific situations requiring choice (once experience has indicated the kinds of situations likely to develop). That is, events and conditions in the field are anticipated as fully as possible, and courses of action to be taken for designated categories of such events and conditions are described. The field officers then need determine only into what category a particular circumstance falls; once this determination is made, he then simply follows the series of steps applicable to that category. 1 Within each category, therefore, the decisions are “preformed.” 2
