National Forest System and U.S. Forest Service Heritage Books

TOIYABE PATROL
Five U.S. Forest Service Summers East of the High Sierra in the 1960s
By Les Joslin

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of U.S. Forest Service employees have served as fire prevention guards in America's national forests. What makes Les Joslin different is not the experiences and thoughts in this book, but the fact he has chosen to share them. Everyone who serves - or who has served or wants to serve - in the Forest Service will appreciate and enjoy Toiyabe Patrol.

"I have read Toiyabe Patrol and enjoyed it very much."
-- Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, U.S. Forest Service, 1993-1996

2006, 130 pages, 60 photos, map, ISBN 0-9647167-5-5. Only $14.95 (postage and handling included).

RANGER TRAILS
The Life and Times of a Pioneer U.S. Forest Service Ranger in the West on the La Sal, Santa Barbara, Cache, and Deschutes National Forests, 1907-1913
By John Riis

John Riis (1882-1946), a son of famous journalist and social activist Jacob Riis, went West as a young man, served in Gifford Pinchot’s new U.S. Forest Service from 1907 to 1913 as a ranger and forest supervisor on national forests in Utah, California, and Oregon, then returned to the East to become a respected Richmond, Virginia, newspaperman. In 1937 he shared his years as a pioneer forest ranger in his Forest Service classic, Ranger Trails, with an introduction by Gifford Pinchot. Ranger Trails has just reprinted with a prologue and an epilogue by Les Joslin.

“I enjoyed John Riis’ stories when I read them, and I think you will too.”
-- Gifford Pinchot, Founding Chief, U.S. Forest Service, and two-term governor of Pennsylvania

2006, 222 pages, 18 historic photos, 2 maps, ISBN 978-0-9647167-7-3. Only $15.00 (postage and handling included)

SEVENTEEN SUMMERS AT
PAULINA LAKE GUARD STATION
By Dick and Dave Robins with Les Joslin

Dick and Dave Robins "grew up" at Paulina Lake Guard Station on the Deschutes National Forest during the summers of 1942-1959 as their dad, John Robins, served as U.S. Forest Service guard in the Central Oregon's beautiful Newberry Caldera (now the heart of Newberry National Volcanic Monument). Join the Robins family to experience a unique way of life in a very different time not so long ago.

2006, 40 pages, 20 photos, map, ISBN 0-9647167-6-3. Only $8.95 (postage and handling included)