“So this is Bitterroot!” The foresters had arrived. The first four of the student woodchoppers stood on the bank of the clear blue lake and viewed their prospective home for the summer. It met their approval.

Again this column has to be pulled out of the suds and run through the wringer. There is nothing new to offer, it’s the same old line getting its annual renovating.

Any logger who has ever worked under Paul Bunyan will tell you that when Paul worked, he worked. Nothing was done by halves. Napoleon and Edison copied Paul’s methods of working with very little sleep but they could never stand worked twenty-five hours a day for a period of months as was Paul’s habit. And, of course, the men that worked in Paul’s camps couldn’t expect to do much loafing.

“Hunt, Fish and Trap.” Who invented that wheeze? Some quack forestry teacher trying to get rich by misrepresenting a great profession and a great Service. I’d like to have that man on a ranger district for one season. He’d forget about hunting, fishing and trapping, and take to rubbing liniment on his sore muscles and change his tune to a true description of the job.