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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



FORESTERS ATTENTION 



AMERICAN FORESTRY will gladly print free 

 of charge In this column advertisements of for- 

 esters, lumbermen and woodsmen, discharged or 

 about to be discharged from military service, who 

 want positions, or of peraeni having employment 

 to offer inch foresters, lumbermen or woodsmen. 



POSITIONS WANTED 



WANTED Position aa Forester and Land Agent. 

 Technically trained forester, 84 years old. 

 Practical experience along all lines included 

 under the duties of the above positions. For- 

 mer Captain, Field Artillery. Address Box 840, 

 care American Forestry, Washington, D. C. 



A FORESTRY graduate with several years ex- 

 perience in forest work and at present em- 

 ployed along technical and administrative 

 lines desires responsible position with private 

 concern operating in and outside the United 

 States. Address Box 870, care of American 

 Forestry Magazine, Washington, D. C. 



RECENTLY discharged from U. S. Army, young 

 man wants position with a firm who has use for 

 a lumber tallyman and inspector. Has a good 

 education, 11 years' practical experience in lum- 

 ber and can furnish good references. Address 

 Box 880, care of American Forestry Magazine, 

 Washington, D. C. 



GRADUATE of the Ranger Course of the Lin- 

 coln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee, 

 wishes to secure work as a forest ranger or 

 guard. Twenty-four years old. Address Box 

 965, care American Forestry, Washington, D. C. 



(11-1-21) 



POSITIONS OPEN 



POSITION wanted by technically trained For- 

 ester. Have had fourteen year* experience 

 along forestry lines, over five years on the 

 National Forests in timber sale, silvicultural 

 and administrative work; three years experi- 

 ence in city forestry, tree surgery and landscape 

 work. Foreater for the North Shore Park Dis- 

 trict of Chicago. City forestry and landscape 

 work preferred, but will be glad to consider 

 other fines Can furnish the best of reference. 

 Address Box 600, Care American Forestry 

 Magazine, Washington, D. C. 



"CIVIL ENGINEER TO SURVEY AND MAKE 

 DETAIL MAPS. ABOUT 2,000 ACRES, NEAR 

 NORWICH, CONNECTICUT. EXCELLENT 

 BOARD AND LODGING. STATE TIME 

 AND TERMS. Address Box 040, care of 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



WANTED Two technically trained foresters. 

 One as Assistant Forester for technical work 

 with headquarters at Trenton, New Jersey, and 

 one as Division Firewarden with headquarters 

 in northern part of State. Firewarden to own 

 and operate automobile for which liberal mileage 

 charge is paid. Salary to start $1,500 and field 

 expenses. If unwilling to apply at this figure 

 submit applications stating minimum salary. 

 Address Department of Conservation and Devel- 

 opment, C. F. Wilber, State Firewarden, State 

 House, Trenton, New Jersey. 



MAN WANTED with technical training and 

 practical experience sufficient to make him 

 thoroughly competent as a developer of Park 

 plans, and also Park Superintendent both in 

 road construction, planting and landscape work 

 and Director of Forestry Service upon the 

 public streets and parks of the city. Address 

 Box 010, American Forestry Magazine, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. (8-8-20) 



WANTED An assistant forester. Good place of- 

 fered for a recent graduate who would like to 

 get in business for himself in an excellent lo- 

 cation. Address Box 920, American Fobestby 

 Magazik*. (810/20) 



School of Forestry 



UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO 



Four Year Course, with op- 

 portunity to specialize in 

 General Forestry, Log- 

 ging Engineering, and 

 Forest Grazing. 



Forest Ranger Course of 



high school grade, cover- 

 ing thsiee years of five 

 months each. 



Special Short Course cover- 

 ing twelve weeks design- 

 ed for those who cannot 

 take the time for the 

 fuller courses. 



Correspondence Course in 



Lumber and Its Uses. No 

 tuition, and otherwise ex- 

 penses are the lowest. 



For Further Particulars Address 



Dean, School of Forestry 



University of Idaho 



Moscow, Idaho 



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SMOKERS URGED TO USE CARE IN 

 THE WOODS 



AS a basis for securing co-operation of 

 tobacco users in the reduction of losses 

 from forest fires, the Forest Service of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture 

 is gathering information as to the extent 

 to which fires in the woods are due to 

 smokers. 



"We have been gathering statistics for a 

 number of years as to the causes of forest 

 fires," said Acting Forester Sherman re- 

 cently in outlining the plan, "but these sta- 

 tistics have not shown under a separate 

 heading fires known to have their origin 

 in tobacco smoking. All fires started by 

 hunters and fishermen, for example, are 

 commonly classed as campers' fires ; those 

 started by loggers, to lumbermen; and so 

 on. From now on our men in the field mak- 

 ing reports will be asked to indicate, so 

 far as they are able, how many fires are 

 started by smokers. 



"A burning cigarette end seems such a 

 small matter that relatively few people 

 trouble to be sure that it is out before 

 tossing it away. In the western national 

 forests, where in the summer every spark 

 of fire is particularly dangerous on ac- 

 count of the dryness of the vegetation, 

 our forest rangers have again and again 

 traced fires back to the point of origin 

 and found there a cigarette butt, from 

 which the fire had spread fan-wise down 

 the wind. Some of these cigarette butts 



lay by the roadside where they had been 

 tossed from the cars of automobilists. 



"Lumber companies sometimes forbid 

 smoking in the woods. Restrictive meas- 

 ures of this character would not be called 

 for if smokers had a sufficiently keen sense 

 of responsibility, and the habit of care not 

 to drop fire in any form." 



The Secretary of Agriculture addressed 

 a letter, to a number of leading tobacco 

 manufacturers not long ago, pointing out 

 that smokers cause many forest fires, that 

 a single fire may cost the Government 

 thousands of dollars for fire fighting, to 

 say nothing of the timber burned up and 

 the landscape desolated, and that by en- 

 closing in tobacco packages some sort of 

 warning against carelessness with fire, the 

 companies could materially aid in the cam- 

 paign for forest protection. One of the 

 largest tobacco companies in the country 

 answered favorably and requested a sug- 

 gestion for a slip which might be placed 

 in packages of smoking tobacco, as a 

 warning. The department suggested a 

 legend reading: 



Careless Smokers Cause Many 



Forest Fires, 



says the United States Forest Service. 



Burned Timber Pays No Wages 1 



asks 



your help to prevent fires. 



Be sure your match, pipe ashes, 

 cigarette are out before you let them 

 fall. 



FOREST RANGER EXAMINATION 



TN order to fill vacancies in the ranger 

 force of the Forest Service, the United 

 States Civil Service Commission announced 

 an open competitive examination for forest 

 ranger on October 25. In Arizona the ex- 

 amination was held at Clifton, Flagstaff, 

 Prescott, Roosevelt, Safford, Snowflake, 

 Springerville, Tuscon, and Williams, and in 

 New Mexico at Alamogordo, Albuquerque, 

 Magdalena, Santa Fe, Silver City, and 

 Taos. Persons desiring to take such exami- 

 nations should secure application Form 1312 

 from the Civil Service Commission, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, from the Forest Supervisor 

 at any of the examination places above 

 mentioned, or from the District Forester, 

 Albuquerque, New Mexico. 



A MERICAN FORESTRY, in my opin- 

 ion, is going ahead faster than almost 

 any magazine I know of. I have found it 

 this year of very great value in my admin- 

 istration of this park. You are certainly to 

 be congratulated upon the beauty of the 

 magazine, as well as upon the quality of its 

 articles and editorials." 



Horace M. Albright, 

 Superintendent of the Yellowstone 

 National Park. 



