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Sierra Club Bulletin 



RANGERS 



The ranger department was reorganized under the new park system 

 installed this year, the park rangers being divided into two classes, 

 known as park rangers of the first class (mounted) and park rangers 

 of the second class (unmounted) or automobile checkers. The park-rang- 

 er force consists of a chief park ranger, Mr. O. R. Prien, two assistant 

 chief park rangers, and two park rangers, all permanent employees, and 

 seven temporary park rangers, all of the first class, together with four 

 rangers of the second class or automobile checkers. With this ranger 

 department the Government has been able to handle the checking of the 

 automobiles, as well as the protection of the park against forest fires 

 and poachers, with the enforcement of the park rules and regulations. 

 This park-ranger force has very capably taken care of the work per- 

 formed in previous years by troops of cavalry detailed from the United 

 States Army and stationed in this park. 



It is recommended that this park-ranger force be increased by at least 

 two permanent yearly men, one to take charge of the insect-control 

 work, which should be carried on each season and which has been un- 

 der the direction of Mr. J. J. Sullivan, entomological ranger, detailed 

 for duty in this park from the Bureau of Entomology, Department of 

 Agriculture, and the other to take charge of the newly established in- 

 formation bureau. 



FOREST FIRES 



This season the forest fires did very little damage and were easily 

 controlled by the park rangers, assisted by the other park employees. 



Arrangements have been made and materials purchased for the con- 

 struction of two fire-lookout stations or triangulation stations for the 

 use of the ranger department for fire protection. Owing to the location 

 of these stations, one being on Mount Hoffman and the other on Sen- 

 tinel Dome, it will be possible with the high power instruments at hand 

 for the ranger department to instantly locate a fire or fires within the 

 district, and by the triangulation system be able to give the exact loca- 

 tion of the fire immediately the fire starts. It is absolutely necessary that 

 these two stations co-operate with ,the triangulation stations of the For- 

 est Service where possible in the surrounding districts and that we have 

 telephonic communication, so that we may work together in locating 

 forest fires, for the protection of the park as well as the national for- 

 ests surrounding the park. It would be well when funds are available to 

 establish one or more of these triangulation stations in other districts 

 of the park, as it will not be possible for these two stations to control the 

 whole park area. These stations will lessen the expense of fire protection 

 as well as afford a great protection to the forests of the park. 



LAMBERT SODA SPRINGS 



The Lambert Soda Springs at the Tuolumne Meadows, on the Tuo- 

 lumne River, about 25 miles by trail from Yosemite Valley, have been 

 of considerable interest to the visitors to the Yosemite National Park 



