To Watch the Loggers During Work This Winter. 



The nine or ten who will remain during the winter, will 

 watch slash disposal, noting the manner, promptness and 

 thoroughness of the work. They know their districts, know 

 the operators in the timber and the operators know them. 

 Besides this work of supervision, the patrolmen will do some 

 snowshoe reconnaissance duty. 



The forestry board will ask the next session of the Legis- 

 islature for an appropriation of $150,000 double the amount 

 appropriated now with which to conduct the work in 1913. 

 The state forester believes the North woods should be pa- 

 trolled by at least 200 men during the danger season, instead 

 of by 50 as the force is now constituted. 



Commenting on the work of the patrolmen during the sea- 

 son and telling of their duties, the forester says in his annual 

 report, just issued: 



What Patrolmen Have Been Doing to Perfect the Service. 



"Immediately upon taking the field it was required of every 

 patrolman that he acquaint himself with all characteristics of 

 his territory, and especially with the people. He sought, for 

 future reference, the location of areas which were most liable 

 to fire. He learned the rivers, roads, trails and open regions 

 all the means of rapid travel and advantageous lines of 

 defense in case of fire. Many patrolmen worked out definite 

 patrol routes, which they covered as often as necessary in the 

 performance of their chief duty guarding against the occur- 

 rence of fires. They were supplied with tents, axes, shovels, 

 mattocks and other simple equipment necessary to living and 

 working in the forest. Where there were good water routes 

 in their beats patrolmen were furnished canoes. In the latter 

 case, or where horses were used, sets of fire-fighting tools 

 were carried. 



"Patrolmen were endowed with police powers to enforce 

 the forest law. They were empowered to summon aid in the 

 case of fire, to demand the observance by the people of the 

 requirements of the law, to make arrests when necessary; 

 and were responsible to the rangers in carrying out the de- 



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