loyalty. The esprit du corps of the Porest Service has 



been one of Its greatest assets and the Sierra 

 It seems to me, has always had more than its share due 

 largely to the Intense enthusiasm and loyalty of former 

 Supervisors Shinn and Redington from whom we absorbed a 

 generous quantity. There Is no factor In any work that 

 goes farther to promote efficiency than loyalty and enthu- 

 siasm to the work In hand. Ours is not an organization 

 that depends upon di&nlty and aloofness to command respect 

 for superiors In office, but rather we are drawn together 

 by enthusiasm for the work, Its present and Its future. 

 We have worked shoulder to shoulder, Forester and Guard, to 

 establish a national Institution that affects the whole na- 

 tion vitally. 



Now that we have become an Institution, we are 

 apt to forget these hard and trying times of opposition 

 and to lose the close personal touch of former times. There 

 is something wrong when any man In the organization goes so 

 far as to criticise his superiors publicly. If he does not 

 agree with his superior's actions, constructive criticism Is 

 absolutely necessary and Is welcomed. But to be an effective 

 organization we must weed out the men who offer only the other 

 brand. 



The Fire Season. July has come and ^one with only eight 



fires on this Forest, on a total acre- 

 acre of 266.35, practically all of this being in brush 

 where no attempt was made to reduce the acreage. It cost 

 a total of ylSS.OO to put these fires out before they 

 reached timber. August Is the month of extreme danger 

 but we are going to beat the July record with a smaller 

 force than we have had for years. 



Preparedness. A bridge over the Dorth Pork of the San 



Joacuin went out during the winter storms, 

 another over the South ~I?ork of tho San Joaquin and a third 

 over the Berth Pork of Ulngs. They had to be replaced at 

 onoe to make it possible to use certain cattle ranges to 

 which stock had been allotted. These bridges were known to 



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