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must have at Ms fingers' end all the items of 

 road and trail building, the mining business, the 

 stock business, etc. Moreover, it is thought de- 

 sirable that he should be a college graduate, and 

 that he must have taken a special course in for- 

 estry work. 



Our first foresters found it necessary to go to 

 Europe for special training. Some twenty 

 years ago, two forestry schools were established 

 in the U. S., oUe at Cornell University, and one 

 at Biltmore, in the mountains of North Caro- 

 lina. Two years later, a third school was or- 

 ganized at Yale, and others have sprung up 

 since, till we have something over twenty 

 schools of forestry in our land. Some of these 

 give short courses, especially intended for the 

 training of rangers. 



A ranger is next in rank below the super- 

 visor, his deputy, and his assistant. These 

 men, like their superiors, must be suflficient unto 

 themselves. Their home is usually in the heart 

 of the forest, far from the comforts of civiliza- 

 tion. They have all the routine work to do, and 

 some of it is the hardest kind of labor. They 

 have to know how to provide for themselves and 

 their horse under all sorts of trying circum- 

 stances, and to ride over rough country all day, 

 and all night, too, if necessary. They must 



