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Roads must be kept "ready for any emergency. Trail, telephone, and road 

 crews must imderstand where they are to go, and what they are to do, and how 

 to do it. Hot only how to do their regxilar job, but what to do in case of fire, 

 when everythir^ is stopped and all hands fight fire, not as a wild panicky village 

 community sometimes fights fire, but in an organized, systematic way. Bill mciJces 

 arrangements with agencies and individuals in towns and on ranches near the forest 

 borders to hire extra fire fighters when needed, assembles fire tools at 

 strategic points. His job is to see that his protection force functions promptly 

 and efficiently at all times. That tal^es training, and leeuiership, and inspectior. 

 on his part. 



And fire fighting is only the chief of his many duties. There are sales 

 of timber from the national fzresz to look sifter and check on. In fact, Bill 

 and his brothers have a thousand arid one jobs, but I'll have to put off telling 

 about the others until some other time. 



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ANN0UNCEM5ITT : You have just heard a brief outline of some of the many varied 

 duties of the forest rangers in the United States Forest Service. This out- 

 line is one of e. series called "With Uncle Sam's Naturalists" which this Station 

 presents in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture. 



