126 THE USE BOOK. 



RECORDS, REPORTS, AND CORRESPONDENCE . 

 RANGERS' RECORDS AND REPORTS. 



All rangers and guards, in addition to recording the necessary 

 information and reports upon the regular blank forms for free 

 use, timber sales, supervision of cutting, fire, etc., are required to 

 keep a diary, in the notebook furnished for the purpose, of the 

 reserve work or reserve business upon which they have been en- 

 gaged each day. In filling out this diary, which becomes a serv- 

 ice report to be sent to the supervisor on the last day of each 

 month, accompanied ' by a sfgned salary voucher, what was done 

 each day will be stated briefly but comprehensively. If patrol 

 was performed the exact country ridden over and the miscella- 

 neous work done should be stated; also whether any fires were 

 discovered or extinguished. If scaling was done the sale and 

 the'.amount scaled should be designated. The names of people 

 with whom reserve business was transacted and the nature of the 

 business should be given. It is not necessary to give the number 

 of miles traveled. Above all things a perfunctory, cut-and-dried 

 report should be avoided. Willful omission or falsification of 

 service reports is cause for dismissal from the Service. Temporary 

 assistants will be reported for by the ranger to whose district they 

 are assigned. 



The following is a sample of a ranger's diary correctly made 

 out: 



August 10, 1906. Rode up Copper Creek Trail to Frog Pond 

 Basin. Trail washed half mile below forks. S. J. Smith's cattle 

 off their range. Drove them back over ridge. Scaled 5,345 feet 

 bug-killed pine on J. R. Hurst's sale. Took application for agri- 

 cultural lease in basin from Jack Wade. Issued F. U. permit to 

 Mrs. Grant for 5 cords dead fir from ridge back of her place. Fixed 

 trail on return to camp. No fires. Wrote siipe^Rvisor about 

 Smith's cattle. 



Started work 7.45 a. m. Quit work 6.15 p. m. 



SUPERVISORS' REPORTS. 



Supervisors' reports should be as concise as possible, but must 

 give full information. Special attention should be given to rec- 

 ommendations. 



