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Montana to see how David Mason had inaugurated selec 

 tion-marking in lodgepole pine there, I found it was 

 no more than Lovejoy had been practicing for several 

 years. 



Fry: Do you remember much about the degree of consensus 



between the timber operators and your staff at Medicine 

 Bow regarding appraisal, marking, and bidding procedures? 



Granger: As a rule timber purchasers were rarely satisfied with 

 appraisals, marking, scaling, etc., but they usually 

 gave in after the first squawks! 



I believe the Medicine Bow pioneered in a new 

 method of settling a timber trespass case. A large 

 tie-producing company had cut over a large area of 

 national forest land in trespass in pre-Forest Service 

 days and during my supervisorship the settlement had 

 come to a head. One feature of it provided that the 

 trespasser would build a wide fire line around the 

 edges of the cutover area, on which there was still 

 much inflammable debris left from the cutting. We 

 decided that such a line would be of little or no value 

 against a wind-driven fire, so we got authority to have 

 the trespasser instead construct access wagon roads 

 to the area and install telephone lines to connect 

 the ranger station with a sort of central switchboard 



