The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-03
EXAMINATION FOR
ASSISTANT FOREST RANGERS
Will Be Held at Various Places in United
States This Month for 1912
Field Season.

Washington, D. G., oct. 3--The civil
service commission will hold an exami-
nation for assistant forest rangers on
October 1924, 1911. The T. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture estimates that 400
eligibles will be needed during the field
season of 1912. Assistant forest rang.
ers are paid an entrance salary OF SLIGO
per annum
The examination will be held at ma
tional forest headquarters in Alaska,
Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado,
Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Mon.
tana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico,
Oklahoma, Oregon South Dakota, Utah,
Washington, and Wyoming. No exami-
nation win be held in Michigan.
The law requires that, when practie
able, forest rangers mast be qualified
citizens of the State or Territory in
which the national forest on 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 90 TO the national
forest states and take the examination
to secure an appointment Is small
The requirements and duties Of forest
rangers are thus described in "The Use
Book" which contains the regulations
and instructions for the use of the ma
tional forests:
"a ranger of any grade must be thor
oughly sound and able bodied, capable
Of enduring hardships and performing
severe labor under trying conditions. He
must be able to take care of himself and
his horses in regions remote from settle
ment and supplies He must be able TO
build trails and cabins, ride, pack, and
deal taetfully with all classes of PEG.
pie. He must know something OF land
surveying, estimating and scaling tim
Der, logging, land laws, mining, and the
livestock business
"On some forests the ranger must be
q specialist in one or more OF these lines
of work. Thorough familiarity with the
region in which he seeks employment, in
Guiding its geography and its forest
and industrial conditions, is usually de-
manded, although lack of this may be
supplied by experience in similar re-
gions.
"The examination Of applicants is
along the practical lines indicated above,
and actual demonstration, 5y per-
ance. 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 intelligent reports upon
ordinary forest business 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 fur
nishes no personal or horse equipment
Rangers execute the work of the ma
tional forests under the direction Of SUI
peryisors. Their duties include patrol TO
prevent fire and trespass, estimating,
surveying, and making timber, the su.
pervsion Of cuttings, and similar work.
They issue minor permits, build cabins
and trails, oversee grazing business, in
vestigate claims, report on applications,
and report upon and arrest for violation
Of forest laws and regulations.
The examination viii consist of ques-
tions regarding the use of the forest,
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
questions on these subjects in the appli-
cation for 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 control
of the civil service commission. and not
Of the forest service Information in de-
tail concerning it. including the names
OF the places at which it will be held,
will be sent to anyone applying to the
United States Civil Service Commission,
Washington, d. G.