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planting. The planting assistant may be assigned to 

 the regular duties of a ranger during the winter when 

 nursery work is suspended. 



A ranger of any grade must be thoroughly sound and 

 able-bodied, capable of enduringhardships and of per- 

 forming severe ~labor under trying conditions. He 

 must be able to take care of himself and hisJiQEses in 

 regions remote from settlement and_supplies. He must 

 be able to build trails and cabins^ride, pack, and jeal 

 tactfully with all classesjrf people! He must know 

 "something of land surveying, estimating and scaling 

 timber, logging, land laws, mining, and the live-stock 

 business. 



On Isome Forests the ranger must be a specialist in 

 one or more of these lines of work. Thorough famil- 

 iarity with the region in which he seeks employment, 

 including its geography and its forest and industrial 

 conditions, is usually demanded, although lack of this 

 may be supplied by experience in similar regions. 



The examination of applicants is along the practical 

 lines indicated above, and actual demonstration, by per- 

 formance, is required. Invalids seeking light out-of- 

 door employment need not apply. Experience, not 

 Book education, is sough t^ although ability to make sim- 

 " pie maps and write intelligent reports upon ordinary 

 Forest business is essential. 



For duty in some parts of Arizona and New Mexico 

 the ranger must know enough Spanish to conduct Forest 

 business with Mexicans. 



