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Campers' Registers. Now that we have excellent naps and coop- 

 ers' hand-books to give out to c. seeking 



public, ne of the old obstacles in the way of getting travel- 

 ers' naraes in a register maintained ct a ranger station has 

 disair^rjflfi. './e have something to offer In exchange for the 

 name. I!any hundred's of travelers have already registered at 

 the stations where we maintain station registers, and by the 

 end of the summer It is safe to say that the rnutbrr will run 

 into the thousands. Mth campaign ammunition which we have 

 never had before, with an inducement to stop at a station 

 which will a;val to ninety out of a hundred travelers, the 

 scope and effect of our personal appeal work should be jreat- 

 ly enlarged. Incidentally the regioters will give us a most 

 valuable nailing list for publicity literature. 

 Sign Boards. The sign board .;rblem on a Poreot s* 



greatly frequentec. by mountain travelers 



as is the Sierra is a big ne. forest officers, when consider- 

 ing what sijns are needed most, should loek at the problem from 

 the viewpoint of the man who wvuld pause in uncertainty at a 

 point where a dim oow-trail leado away from the blr.zoned path. 

 He must ior^et that he knovrs every foot of the country, and 

 think in terns of one who doesn't. Good sign-board work will 

 do more towards easing the worrying traveler's mind than any- 



.ing else we can do. People who travel and see such things 

 advettise them, and this encourages others to wend their way 



'c has heretofore been, perhaps, a mysterious and 

 avoided region. The calls which have been r.ede on the Super- 

 visor's office for signs during the last year show the ranjer'8 

 appreciation of the problem and his attempt at its solution. 



Fire Protection. Pour fire protective Associations compris- 

 ing over two hundred settlers, 90 er bet- 

 ter of all who dwell within or near the ?orest north of the San 



iver, have entered into cooperative &r>Teement8 with 

 the 1 crest Service to safeguard their brush fires and to assist 

 i preventing and suppressing forest fires. This bodes well for 

 :ire record this year not because the officers of the as- 

 tions have afiixed their names to the agreencnta, but be- 

 .use the members of the associations are enthusiastically in 



r of fire control . Before Icng, a man outside of the asso- 

 ciation who thinks he can continue to handle fires rhen and 



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