In addition to his duties at permanent work locations, primarily at National Forests (NF) throughout his career, Forest Ranger Kade Holley was sometimes given temporary assignments for various reasons. Many of these were related to assisting with forest fires in other states, including Montana, Minnesota, and Colorado. These were, most often, two or three weeks in duration. This volume of the Forest Ranger series includes stories related to three such temporary assignments in chapters 2, 3, and 4. Chapter 1 covers a 2 1/2 year period in the middle of Kade's 31-year Forest Service career when he actually left the agency to work as a public affairs forester for a private forest products company. After that time he returned to the Forest Service, where he continued to work in various capacities until he retired from the agency, where his final position was serving as the Athens District Ranger at the Wayne National Forest in southeastern Ohio.