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CHAPTER XVI. 



OUTUNE OF A FOREST SYSTEM FOR SOUTHERN 

 CALIFORNIA. 



Force — This must be mainly permanent. Appointment to It must 

 be on merit solely. It must be absolutely divorced from politics or 

 personal influence. Its officers must be trained to the duties of forest 

 guardians. Pending the creation of a trained force, the force itself 

 should be used as a school. Its members should be made up of those 

 who can pass the best examination in theoretical forestry. Preference 

 should be given those making a study of the subject and declaring it 

 to be their intention to make forestry a career. With the assistance 

 of the agents of water and power conpanies and of resort proprietors 

 in the permit or registration system and signal station plan, a force 

 adequate for our immediate safety need not exceed thirty-six men. 

 This force should primarily be divided as follows: 



Trabuco 3 men 



San Jacinto 5 men 



Pine Mountain 6 men 



San Bernardino 10 men 



Sierra Madre 12 men 



These allotments of men should be kept together and patrol their 

 ditsricts as a body, in each case. Each patrol should have a captain, 

 to be the best man in it. The patrol can be divided at times. There 

 should never be less than two foresters together. The policy should 

 be to keep the force united. There must be a system of check reports 

 deposited at certain designated places to show the passage of the patrol. 

 The chief forest officer must visit the patrol in the field from time to 

 time. 



