Show FOREST NOTES noted forest fires in british columbia covered more than acres during the past year during the past two years yearns forest officers have killed nearly predatory animals more than three fourths of which were coyotes the arboretum established at washington in rock creek park through cooperation beewen the forest service and the district of columbia now contains 1200 trees comprising 92 different species there were fires this year on the national forests of utah southern idaho western wyoming and nevada or 15 more than in the most disastrous season of 1910 yet the cost of extinguishing them was only one third and the damage only one thirtieth of that of the earlier year the difference is due to better organization now and to more roads trails and telephones |