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)

WALT PERRY
An Early-Day Forest Ranger in New Mexico and Oregon
By Walter J. Perry, edited by Les Joslin

This is the amazing story of Walt Perry (1873-1959) who at age 39 found his "real life's work" in the U.S. Forest Service. A graduate of the "school of hard knocks," this rough and ready gentleman of intelligence and integrity served on national forests in New Mexico and Oregon from 1910 to 1936 and epitomized the pioneer forest ranger. He served with many of the Forest Service's best and brightest as he rose through the ranks to become a respected member of the forestry profession.

1999, 205 pages, 32 historic photos, ISBN 0-9647167-2-0. Now only $19.95 (postage and handling included).

THE WILDERNESS CONCEPT AND THE THREE SISTERS WILDERNESS
Deschutes and Willamette National Forests, Oregon (Revised Edition)
By Les Joslin

The Wilderness Concept and the Three Sisters Wilderness is a guide to understanding Oregon's most popular congressionally-designated wilderness as wilderness - its natural and cultural history and the philosophical, legal, and management concepts that keep it wild.

2005, 173 pages (vii plus 166), over 50 photographs, maps, diagrams, ISBN 0-9647167-4-7. Only $14.95 (postage included).