Show FOREST FInES FIRES The fhe subject t of forest rarest fire prevention prevention prevention tion Is in otle in which every man woman and child In this community is concerned A perpetual supply of timber and protection of our watersheds watersheds watersheds water water- sheds are essential to our industrial and social development evel The main feature in the HIe solution solution of the local problem is the elimination elimination elimina ellmina- tion Uon of or the man made fire Last year frequent summer rains reduced the danger danser on tl tIle the a Ashley forest and only three fi fires es occurred and these thelo were all extinguished before they assumed damaging proportions It is significant however that all were caused by human carelessness and and could have have been avoided This Is IB an index of what a a potent source of danger exists in the ordinary season season season sea sea- son by reason of the careless camper or traveller In the forest The fhe conscience of this class must be molded b by educational methods or by the sterner method of enforcement enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment of the fire laws It is encouraging to note that an increasing percent of the fires of the thelast thelast thelast last fow few years are reported or ex extinguished extinguished extinguished ex- ex by y persons outside of or the the forest service It is urged that the readers o 05 this do their part in Iv pr pT p fore forest t. t fires during the C n co IlI I. I son on |