. Conservation. Forests and forestry. 766 CONSERVATION That night, as the ranger lay in his blankets in front of the campfire, my thoughts were busy with the relations of himself and of others like him to each other and to the Service. What quiet, calm, yet undisciplined natures they had! With what straight sim- plicity they went forward to fateful con- clusions. How immense the responsi- bility upon the ofificers of the forests to train, control, restrain, direct these hereditary forces! And I remember the dictum of an old supervisor a year or two earlier when he said to me? "If I told t
. Conservation. Forests and forestry. 766 CONSERVATION That night, as the ranger lay in his blankets in front of the campfire, my thoughts were busy with the relations of himself and of others like him to each other and to the Service. What quiet, calm, yet undisciplined natures they had! With what straight sim- plicity they went forward to fateful con- clusions. How immense the responsi- bility upon the ofificers of the forests to train, control, restrain, direct these hereditary forces! And I remember the dictum of an old supervisor a year or two earlier when he said to me? "If I told that ranger to shoot a man, in the name of the Government, and his reason approved, he would kill him, and never lose a minute's sleep over it. But if his reason did not approve, he would resign and leave the camp without stop- ping for dinner" (a serious proposi- tion out West; to leave that way is like refusing to take salt in the tent of an Arab). Such was the bringing up of some of the older types of forest rangers before the days of reports and business details of timber sales, grazing permits, and land matters. They did their work, and fulfilled themselves, under very hard conditions. Their virtues have been handed on down the line, and their successors, with much better edu- cations and fuller comprehension of for- est problems, are still valuable in the main according to the degree in which, like the rangers of 1891-1903, they speak and live the truth as it is revealed to them. Honesty, fidelity, capacity for hard work, and belief in the game we are playing, are now, no less than in pioneer days, the requisites, the im- perative demands of the Service upon the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original American Forestry Association. Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
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