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The Annual Estiratse and On all tho HatiTnal Forests of 

 Analysis of Diaries. California during the months of 



Janujtry and P*bmary the Dis- 

 trict IAIWTB are netting to the Supervisors' off lorn *o 

 fco OTPT 3n detail their eatii^tes for aen and Improve- 

 ments during the noreing fiscal year and to analyze, through. 

 a ilnse study of their diaries, the work performed by them 

 durlrg tho oalpndar year 1915. 



Thn ImproTamert estimate work has brought ant a t^-eat 

 need, riz, that there should be readily available for ov-- 

 ery officer on a national rorst, up-to-date, exact data con- 

 cerning the availability, Initial and transportation oost 

 of thn hundred kinds of material oeedAd In oaintenanoe and 

 ocnat runt ion of permanent linproTeiwnts . The Sierra has jjct- 

 tnn oat a handbook of useful information whi oh partly oovr 

 this nood. Howe-vcr, a looal Forest book giving not only the 

 *lnd of Information whirch the Sierra handbook attempts to 

 supply, hut in addition ooat data of naterlals, Is urgently 

 needed to enable rangers to present aoourate, domprehensivu 

 estimates to the Supervisors 1 of floes. The rugsestlon Is 

 made that every Supervisor will find it to his advantage to 

 hare suoh a ooet book made up. 



In order to show olearly to the Distrlot Porester th 

 need for men to handle administrative work, the Supervisor 

 must know how many units of eaoh different kind of forest 

 work have to >e looked after ill anjt one ranger district. 

 A Forest Sheet \7 la therefore a necessity. 



The analysis of ranger diaries ha been most Interest- 

 ing, and will BO doubt result in profit. Th Supervisor 

 more thoroogbly understands how a rangr spends his time, 

 and the rangpr oan draw valuable deductions from the anal- 

 ysis; lan see where he spent too icaoli time and where too 

 little. A question most frequently asked by outsiders of a 

 Forest offior 1: Tfhat does a ranger Ao ?' r If the ques- 

 tioner ould se the analysis sheet in which (on the Sequoia 

 and the Sierra) were listed 60 definite ranger activities 

 exclusive of all permanent improvement work, b* would have 

 no difficulty in answering hi a own query. 



The Ranger and Ten years ago, a prophecy that in fifteen 

 the Antorrobil*. years an automobile would be a ncsary 



adjunct to the work of a forest ranger 



would have beer, received with scorn end riCioule. How it la 

 safe to say thau in five years 50','': of the rasters in Call- 



