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dense timber encumbered with windfalls, or may necessitate wading 

 in streams. One should be familiar with horses, canoes, and woods 

 tools, as well as with automobiles and perhaps with the diamond hitch 

 or tump line. Resourcefulness, physical endurance, leadership, and a 

 cheerful disposition are desirable traits in facing many of the woods 

 problems. 



The nature of the work may require frequent changes of head- 

 quarters, and thus it may be difficult to establish a home until ad- 

 vancement in position may require living in a larger community with 



FIG. 14. Fruit Growers Supply Company's mill and box factory, Susanville, 

 California. This mill cuts 300,000 board feet in eight hours. This was one of 

 the pioneer companies in the establishment of a sustained yield plan of forest 

 management on their extensive timber holdings of about 142,000 acres. This 

 company is owned by an association of fruit growers to supply wooden boxes 

 for fruit shipments. It also sells lumber in the open market. In the left center 

 is the jack-ladder to haul logs from the storage pond to the second floor of the 

 mill. Refuse burner is shown at the right. 



greater opportunities for home life. Those occupying administrative 

 positions of responsibility may be expected to spend from 35 to 65% 

 of their time in the forest or away from home, supervising, directing, 

 and inspecting the work of others. One must be adaptable and so- 

 cially minded to get along with all kinds and conditions of people who 

 are earning their livelihood from the woods. If one is industrious, 

 lends oneself to the work at hand, exercises good judgment, gets along 

 well with his superiors and subordinates, there are ample opportunities 

 for success. A forester must love and enjoy his work, his associations, 

 and his profession. There is little that is monotonous about the work. 



