The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-10-06
EXAMINATIONS FOR RANGERS
Examination For Assistant Rangers at Local
Headquarters October 1924

estimates that four hundred ehgibles
will be needed during the field season
Of 1912. Assistant forest rangers are
paid an entrance salary Of 81, 100 per
annum.
The examination will be held at
national forest headquarters in Alaska,
Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado,
Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota,
Montana, Nebraska Nevada, New Mex
leo, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota,
Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
The law requires that, when practic-
able, forest rangers must be qualified
citizens OF the state or territory in
which they are appointed is situated.
Since the list of local eligibles must be
exhausted before eligibles residing in
other states can be appointed, the
chance OF citizens of outside states who
go to the national forest states and take
the examination to secure an appoint
ment is small.
The requirements and duties Of for
est rangers are thus described in The
Use Book" which contains the regula-
tons and instructions for the use of the
national forests:
A ranger of any grade must be
thoroughly sound and able-bodied,
capable of enduring hardships and per
forming severe labor under trying con-
ditions. He must be able to lake care
of himself and his horses in regions re-
mote from settlements and supplies.
He must be able to build trails and
cabins, ride, pack, and deal tactfully
with all classes of people. He must
know something of land surveying, es-
timating and scaling timber, logging,
land laws, mining, and the livestock
business.
"On some forests the ranger must
be a specialist in one or more of these
lines of work. Thorough familiarity
with the region in which he seeks en-
ployment, including its geography and
its forest and industrial conditions are
generally demanded, although lack of
this may be supplied by experience in
similar regions.
The examination of applicants Is
along the practical lines indicated
above, and actual demonstration, by
performance, is required. Invalids
seeking light out-of-door employment
need not apply. Experience, not book
education, is sought, although ability
to make simple maps and write intelli-
gent reports upon ordinary forest bust
ness is essential.
For duty in some parts of Arizona
and New Mexico the ranger must know
enough Spanish to conduct forest bust
ness with Mexicans.
Where saddle horses or pack horses
are necessary in the performance OF
their duty, rangers are required to own
and maintain them. The forest service
furnishes no personal or horse equip
ment.
Rangers execute the work of the
national forests under supervisors. The
duties include patrol to prevent fire
and trespass, estimating, surveying,
and marking timber, the supervision of
cuttings, and similar work. They
issue minor permits, build cabins and
trails, oversee grazing business, invest
gate claims, report on applications, and
report on and arrest for violation Of for
est laws and regulations"
The examination will consist Of
questions regarding the use Of the for
est supplemented by field test to
show the applicants fitness to do the
actual work of ranger. Education
and experience will be rated on the
answers to the question on these sub
jects in the application form and on
the applicants use of English in the
written test. Horses for the tests in
riding and packing will be provided by
the forest service.
The examination is under the con-
troll of the civil service commission,
and not Of the of the forest service.
Information in detail regarding it, in
Guiding the names of the places at
which it will be held, will be sent to
anyone applying to the United States