Forest Patrol

Some day, John Beldon told himself, he would be a forest ranger. His chance came unexpectly as a one-year substitute in the Rascal district of the Alleghany back country. This is the story of that year-plowing roads, fighting fires, hunting killer bears and wolves, planting trees, attending to all the duties that make up a ranger’s life. But more than anything else it is the story of a nineteen-year-old boy’s finding himself and learning that success is not just heroics, but constantly doing your best.