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to entry. This activity kept one man busy full time. 



Upon Fitzgerald s return I resumed my inspection 

 job. 



Meanwhile I never gave up my hope of getting 

 back to California. I was offered the full super- 

 visorship on two forests in District Two, but declined, 

 Finally, through the help of Paul Redington, Associate 

 District Forester at Denver, District Forester duBois 

 in San Francisco offered me a job as deputy supervisor 

 on the Trinity National Forest in northern California. 

 At the same time I was offered the supervisorship 

 of the Medicine Bow National Forest (Wyoming) with 

 headquarters in Laramie, Wyoming. Something told me 

 I d better take this, my third offer in District Two, 

 and I did so. I have always felt that my further ad 

 vancement was much more rapid than if I had gone to 

 another district where I was not known. 



Medicine Bow National Forest (Wyoming) 



This was a thoroughly satisfying experience, from 

 1911 until early in 1913. The forest was a compact 

 unit of just over 500,000 acres, v/ith heavy stands 

 of timber, some 85,000 .head of permitted sheep and a 



