and two pair of dels. The web shoes wore beet euitr,j to 

 our a O3t, of our work ras done by pacing. After 

 the nen heed all bocome familiar with the raethodu of work 

 ari with pacing on snowshoes, we worked in orev/a of two men 



, ootinintinr of a oorapasoman and tallyman. The compaes- 

 man wr>3 equipped with a standard compass and Jacob staff, an 

 aneroid barometer, a tally register, a map book form 521, and 

 run the lines, did the pacing, made the topofrarhic nnd 

 > maps and took the oilvical notes. The tallyman used 

 calinera to take diameters until he became orpert, and then 

 carried a diameter tape to mako frequent checks; he v/ao also 

 equipped with a standard Forest Service hypsometer, and a 

 tally book form 335. and tallied the trees on a strip two 

 chains wide by epocies, dianeter breast high and number of 

 los, and also assisted in the preparation of the sllvical 

 notes. 



fter a man had spent two weeks as oojipassir.aj;, 

 he chanced and acted as tallyman for an oaual period, and 

 vice versa, in order that each man might be familiar with all 

 the details of the work. On days whon it was impossible 

 to do field work the oompassmen transferred the topographic 

 and t:Tpe maps and the silvic al and field notes to forms 322, 

 and the tallymen entered their estimates on these forms. 

 In this way the rangere all became familiar with the office 

 work as well as with the field work, and at the end of the 

 season the only work left to be dene in the supervisor's 

 office was the combined map on township plata 303 and the 

 general report. 



Pour strips, running through the center of each tier 

 of forties, were run across each section: the strips were two 

 chains wide, so that lOf? of the area was covered, Hie tracks 

 of the compassnien in the snow made it very easy for the tally- 

 can to fallow the line ?/ithout keeping watch on the compaasman. 

 When the men had become familiar with the work, each crew was 

 expected to cover a section a day. The country in which 

 we were working was well surveyed so that we could check on 

 the large majority of section and quarter corners. A supply 

 of fire warnings was carried along and at every corner found 

 a fire warning was posted, usually on a bearing tree facing 

 th? corner. Even when the snow was very deep, the wind would 

 scoop out the snow around the base of the troes so that the 

 marks on line and bearing trees could usually be seon even 

 though the corners were deeply buried. When we worked along 

 the boundary, a supply of boundary notices was also carried 

 for posting whore we checked on section lines or corners along* 

 the boundary, 



\Vorking on the ssiow necessarily made it impossible 

 to obtain silvioal notes on the seedling reproduction, the 

 soil, hurruo, litt/er, ground cover and underbrush and grazing 



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