THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



help the Government fire fighters lost their 

 lives, and many more would have died but 

 for the courage, resource, and knowledge of 

 the woods of the Forest Rangers. 



Take, for example, the case of Ranger 

 Edward C. Pulaski, of the Coeur d'Alene 

 National Forest, stationed at Wallace, 

 Idaho. Pulaski had charge of forty Italians 

 and Poles. He had been at work with them 

 for many hours, when the flames grew to be 

 so threatening that it became a question of 

 whether he could save his men. The fire 

 was travelling faster than the men could 

 make their way through the dense forest, 

 and the only hope was to find some place 

 into which the fire could not come. Accord- 

 ingly Pulaski guided his party at a run 

 through the blinding smoke to an abandoned 

 mine he knew of in the neighborhood. When 

 they reached it, he sent the men into the 

 workings ahead of him, hung a wet blanket 



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