toe defective, but this office had no estimate of the ooat to 

 roplaoe thorn. In fire protection a lack of similar Informa- 

 tion would have been a sign of extreme Inefficiency. To cor- 

 rect this weakness, there has been assigned to Deputy Super- 

 visor Jordan the task of preparing a complete Improvement 

 Plan that will ahow in detail all Improvements needed for as 

 long a period In advance as can be reasonably forecasted. To* 

 you rangrs on the Job, every one of you, this means that 

 your minds must be constantly alert to noto neeCed Improve- 

 ments in your districts, so that Jordan can discuss them with 

 you and can correlate them in a detailed and comprehensive 

 plan for the Forest. 



Save the Odds and Ends. Strangers, especially foreigners, 



shake their heads over the waste 



on our western forests. We eigji, ourselves, when we hear 

 of the winter suffering in large cities and remember our 

 uncounted cords of waste wood. Telling ourselves that it is 

 the fault of our "magnificent distances" , that the transport- 

 ation cost would far exceed the value of waste wood even in 

 our nearest towns, does not help much. 



These foreigners, especially the Swiss and the Russians, 

 tell of the winter work of their peasants with carving tools 

 and of the valuable toys made from small pieces of wood. 



How of course the time is many generations off when 

 a sufficient population will live during the winter in our 

 Forests to follow any such lead, but certain items of waste 

 are even now being turned to use. Years ago posts were made 

 from what had been the waste redwood of the "Old California 

 Mill" . This year more of that "waste" has been manufactured 

 into shakes, and the refuse of the refuse the waste from 

 the post making has been worked up into grape stakes. 



As for toys, one of our neighboring towns, lidera, has 

 a mill devoted largely for some years to the making of doors 

 and windows, mouldings, Inside finish and casings, which this 

 year has tried manufacturing toys froa the odds and ends that 

 accumulate at a mill, and has made a great success of it. 



!7hat is a Porester ? It would be good for the soul of each 



individual in the Service to read' ?.E. 



Olmsted's article In the llay TBBEHMAH. Tfe are too prone to 

 bond to the wind of opinion and need to be told that "the for 

 ester's worl: is in the forest" and that "his highest duty and 

 most difficult work is this problem of using a natural resouror 

 without destroying it." 



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