Marshall, 1939 Tulare Co. Whitaker's Forest, Nov. 17-19 General Comment November 17/1939 Left Berkeley on Friday afternoon at 2:00 PM for Whitaker's Forest, Redwood Mt., Tulare Co., Calif., with Mr. Woodbridge Metcalf & Prof. Bob Cockerell of the forestry dept. Got to Badger at about 9:30 PM. A group of rangers were talking in the back room of the grocery-post- office building of Badger. They were complaining about the unusual lack of rainfall this year (There has been no rain since sometime in Sept.). The talk turned to thunder showers and fires started by lightening in the brush country. They were opposed to having the fires put out - were in favor of letting them burn away the brush. Badger is in the Sierra foothills at about 3500 or 4000 ft., and lies a very short distance below what used