of the Supervisors took advantage of the experience of others 

 and made many changes in their estimates both In figures and 

 In projects. 



It is by much discussion of of a plan or syster. that many 

 ideas are finally consolidated . This means that In the end 

 the rocney allotted to the forest Service is spent In the way 

 that will brin about the greatest results according to the 

 combine?. Judgment (1) of all the rancors of a Porest with 

 that of a Supervisor; (2) of all the Supervisors of a Lls- 

 trict with that of the Wstriot Forester. 



The Cover Illustration, 



The cover illustration shows former Supervisor Redington 

 and his yearlong force. This was talien on April 10, two days 

 before lir.Redin;7ton left the Sierra and four years later than 

 the photograph which formed the cover illustration of iTo.l 

 Vol.11 of the RAI1GEB. A comparison of the two pictures is 

 Interesting. All but three of the men in this photograph ap- 

 pear in the earlier one. Those three are D.C. Birch, IPorest 

 Examiner, and G. P. Leslie, Clerk (recent additions to the For- 

 est force) and tf.H.Parliinson who was unable to be at Uorthfork 

 at the tine the earlier picture was taken. The rangers look 

 a little older (witness the tops of several heads) and a little 

 less worried - note the happier expressions of Taylfcr, LIcLeod 

 and Uainwaring. But though he also looks happy, Mr .Redington 

 appears decidedly thinner than in the former illustra- 

 tion. It has been suggested that he looks happy at the pms- 

 pect of leaving the Forest that has worked him so hard. 



The most marked difference, however, is in the number of 

 men. Aside from the visitors, there are twenty-five Sierra 

 Forest officers shown in the first picture; ir the second there 

 are but fourteen. Even counting out the two summer men 

 I/un^an and Gray who appear in the first picture, there is 

 still a startling difference in numbers. The Forest is Being 

 run with fewer yearlong icen than in 1912. This economy is 

 isade possible partly by the better means of travel and commu- 

 nication that have been built up, but partly because of the 

 change in policy . Instead of holding a considerable force of 

 men all the time, the Forest now has only a scall force of 

 picked men yearlong, and a largely augmented force during the 

 season of greatest fire menace. 



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