

them. Some years ago the problem wa s to got to a fire as 

 CjUicl-ly as possible and put it out, ]Jow~a-days that is 

 still our problon, but we know that thoro aro a dozon ways 

 of reporting a firo, a dozon Wo,ys of got ting men to it, 

 and a dozon ways of handling it after we got to it, Moro 

 important still, if the private owners or tho sottlers havo 

 "been properly trained "by the forest Service, it nay not 

 "bo nocossary for the Service to go no&r tho firo at all. 

 The old get~thero~and~put~tho~fire~out policy will no 

 longer clfr the work, 



Solutions of tho present day various problems 

 arrived at "by tho different supervisors woro contained in 

 reports sent to the District Office in answer to a circu- 

 lar lottor lato in October, and a compilation of those ro~ 

 plios has "beon mado which I am going to road. 



Aft or I got through tho programme calls for a 

 "brief tallr "by each Supervisor on tho sane general subject. 

 I don't want to steal anybody's thunder, and to malio sure 

 that I wont do so I will not mention in my tallr the names 

 of tho supervisors who havo contributed suggestions* 



Some of the suggestions contradict oach other and 

 I havo nado no attempt to reconcile any contradict ions, "but 

 them to "bo discussed "by the mooting. 



Tools. Contract tools aro bettor than those o"b~ 



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