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The School Book of Forestry

CHAPTER X
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The foresters in the Tongass use motor boats.
They travel in couples; two men to a 35-foot boat, which is provided with comfortable eating and sleeping quarters.

The rangers live on the boat all the time.

During the summer they work sixteen to twenty hours daily.

The days are long and the nights short, and they must travel long distances between points of work.

On such runs one man steers the boat and watches the forested shoreline for three or four hours at a time, while his mate reads or sleeps; then they change off.


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