THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



These are but a part of the duties of the 

 Ranger, for he is concerned with all the uses 

 which his District may serve. The streams, 

 for example, may be important for city 

 water supply, irrigation, or for waterpower, 

 and their use for these purposes must be 

 under his eye. Hotels and saw-mills on sites 

 leased from the Government may dot his 

 District here and there. The land within 

 National Forests may be put to a thousand 

 other uses, from a bee ranch on the Cleve- 

 land Forest in southern California to a 

 whaling station on the Tongass Forest in 

 Alaska, all of which means work for him. 



The result of all this is that the Ranger 

 comes in contact with city dwellers, irri- 

 gators, cattlemen, sheepmen, and horsemen, 

 ranchers, storekeepers, hotel men, hunters, 

 miners, and lumbermen, and above all with 

 the settlers who live in or near his District. 

 With all these it is his duty to keep on good 



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