finauoial statement for your Porest; you oan then estimate 

 the 25.' which eventually goes into tho oounty treasuries, 

 and the 10^ which builds roads and trails. 



Be able to tell in a general way, if It is kno'.r. , 

 the Government wealth in your own forest in timber, wator 

 and forage. Havo such figures as you oan remember iroa t'.ie 

 roiestcr'a yearly report. Givo that business man oold facts 

 and iigures. Ho eats them. 



The professional nan gets much the same treatment 

 with the addition of something of the theory of forestry .'..'e 

 show him why we are doin:; certain things and what oercaln re- 

 sults we czrpeot. The professional man has a wider ravine of 

 reading and study than any other type of questioner, anc 1 . ho 

 rcoiates vori: done ior future returns probably more than 

 any other class of men. 



The stocLman is a business man, but when he finds 

 you oan tall; stool, out come the cigars, and if ho is from 

 the Southwest, almost invariably ho will tell you that tho 

 I crest jervioe saved the oattle industry in the southern 

 Rocl.ics. He tolls you how the oattle men laiev/ that they 

 were destroying the ranges, but that each man was afraid of 

 his neic^abor and did not dare reduce his herd to alloi? the 

 ranges to recover. The Torest Service treated them all 

 ali!re, and now ho tells how the ranges carry more stool: and 

 turn them ofi in better flesh. 



Last but not least comes the schoolteacher. How 

 Set busy. I orestry is established , and is a lusty child 

 oi less than 'twenty. '.Thile it needs all available support 

 right now, to fortify it doubly for the future, get tho idea 

 into the schools. Hot forestry alone, but soil erosion, 

 flood control and everything which conservation stands for. 

 The teacher, through nature study and geography, later 

 through economics and engineering, Instills these Ideas Into 

 the growing generations while their minds are receptive, so 

 here's your chance. 



I haven't touched the idea of recreation yet, nor many 

 other phases, but I have no doubt that if a ranger's diary 

 showed three hours devoted to teaching a pretty school teach- 

 er the theory of reconnaissance , special use, diameter tapes, 

 and in fact any phase of It but the Biltmore stic!:, during 

 her summer vacation, he v/ould be marke. 7 . down as showing Im- 

 provement. This has happened on tho Sierra many times with 

 most ratifyin results. 



But after all, why conserve the rain ? '"hen I loft San 

 Diego they had lured :: Zat-:ield" to make it rein, and I : ve 

 been back on the Sierra just thirty-four days, and I '.a ready 

 to talro oaiih . "A 1 :e' ?s C- rain. 



