Slash Burning A clean burn. Showing the 

 ground clear for skidding. 



iri the form of per diem guards or a detachment of troops or 

 a string of settlers or lumber camps, and a responsible dis- 

 trict ranger in charge, with an assistant who can, if need be, 

 act as quartermaster, should be an independent fire protec- 

 tion unit, dependent upon outside help only under exceptional 

 conditions. This is the ideal which should be worked to- 

 wards. I do not feel that the service will be an effective fire- 

 fighting organization until this ideal is reached, since a tre- 

 mendous loss always occurs whenever an attack upon a fire 

 must wait for men and supplies from an outside source. 



"Taking the next unit, the Natioal Forest, there should be 

 available for each supervisor either a clerk or a trained ranger 

 or guard, who can act as quartermaster for the Forest Service 

 whenever the need occurs. The executive staff of the Forest, 

 consisting of the supervisor, his deputy, forest assistant, and 

 other officers not attached to districts, should be .very largely 

 foot-loose for field work, directing the foremen of the fire 

 crews, taking hold wherever special assistance is needed and 

 directing the district rangers in adapting their patrol force 



