FOEEWOED 



Public knowledge of the reasons for the existence 

 of the United States Forest Service is fairly wide- 

 spread and accurate. Conservation the intelli- 

 gent use and development of the resources of our 

 National Forests, has worked its way into the list 

 of the Nation's permanent policies. But while most 

 people are agreed as to the desirability of the work 

 the Forest Service is doing and know in a general 

 way what that work is, there exists a surprising lack 

 of information as to the actual life and day-to-day 

 duties of Service field men : Supervisors and For- 

 est Assistants, Eangers and Guards. 



"The Log of a Timber Cruiser " is in part an 

 attempt to furnish such information at least in one 

 phase of Forest Service activity by detailing the 

 incidents of a six months' field assignment in the 

 mountains of southern New Mexico. If, in addition, 

 the reading of this account provides half the enter- 

 tainment which the recording of the events as they 

 occurred brought, I shall feel very much more than 

 pleased. 



Grateful acknowledgment is due Mr. Gifford 

 Pinchot, the former Forester; Mr. Herbert A. Smith, 

 Editor of the Forest Service; Mr. Bristow Adams, 



