they were called the little g.p., gifford pinchot.ew what it was like out here because he lived out here. the other ones did not. they come out of here from yale and they come to these new national forests and they are in their 20s and they're being given charge of, you know, an area bigger than some eastern states, okay? so they have these giant national forests. the average beat, the acreage for a single ranger is 300,000 acres per ranger. that was the beat they had to walk. and it's all full of interesting characters. people aren't necessarily taking the idea of national forests the way pinchot and roosevelt intended which was that it would be land for the little guy. so this is what i'm going to read an idea of what it was like for a new ranger to newly arrive here in the great state of montana and go out and check out his national forest. in a thicket of dark montana woods just downslope from the idaho divide, a town sprang up with one prostitute for every three men and a murder rate higher than that of new york city. carved insi