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ful and resourceful. To secure such men is not easy. 

 Only the forest can produce them, and it cannot give 

 the literary and mechanical training necessary. Other 

 countries have found it advisable to establish schools for 

 fcrest rangers, and Canada will no doubt have to do 



FIG. ii. Fire Rangers' Notice on the Kemogami River, 125 Miles 

 North of Jack Fish, Ont. 



likewise. A small beginning has already been made in 

 this line of work by the institution of a course suitable for 

 forest rangers in connection with the vocational work of 

 the Military Hospitals Commission at Vancouver, B.C. 

 These should only add to, not replace, training which the 

 forest gives. The forest ranger must continue to be the 

 natural son of the forest, not the artificial product of a 

 school. The Director of Foresty gives the qualifications 

 of a forest ranger as follows : 



i. Physical fitness, to be attested by medical certificate. 



