ADMINISTRATION 43 



Each Forest Ranger works and studies over his 

 plans for the next year with which he hopes to pro- 

 tect his district from fire. He plans and figures 

 out what improvements are urgently necessary to 

 make the remote parts of his district more accessi- 

 ble. He tries to arrive at a safe estimate of the 

 cost of so many miles of trails, roads, and telephone 

 hnes, so many cabins, barns, corrals, etc., which he 

 thinks are absolutely essential to the proper admin- 

 istration of his district, and he estimates the number 

 of Forest Guards, lookout men, and patrol men he 

 will need for the protection of his territory. Usu- 

 ally these items are summed up under his annual 

 Improvement Plan and his Protection Plan re- 

 spectively. 



The Supervisor's Plans. When the Forest Su- 

 pervisor receives such estimates and plans from each 

 of his Forest Rangers he studies them over care- 

 fully and tries to decide in an impartial way what 

 improvements are most necessary in each Ranger 

 district and what additional men are necessary for 

 the adequate protection of the region in question. 

 He carefully weighs the arguments for and against 

 each expenditm'e and decides what improvements 

 must be made now and which ones it would be 



