&quot;to the dense chaparral, where one had to crawl to 

 get through, I couldn t see how anyone could sight 

 out a trail without a lot of clearing. Fortunately 

 at this point G-reeley sent word for me to return 

 to headquarters. 



G-reeley had given Dave Rogers a much more dif 

 ficult job - laying out a road location to open up 

 a body of timber for sale. For a forester just out 

 of forest school, this was a real test, and Rogers 

 came through successfully. 



It was near the end of my six-months assign 

 ment to the Sierra(South) and I was told I would be 

 transferred elsewhere. I desperately wanted to stay 

 in California, my home state, but despite Greeley s 

 plea in my behalf, I was ordered to the Montezuma 

 National Forest in southwest Colorado. 



Montezuma National Forest 



I arrived in Durango, Colorado shortly after 

 the first of the year, 1908. Ernest Shaw was the 

 Forest Supervisor, James Langworthy the head ranger 

 and William Fraser the forest clerk. At first I 

 helped with office work and got accustomed to a 



