Show Guarding Our National Forests A little known but highly important service both to the present generation and those that are to come Is rendered by the men who guard and care for Cor lour our national forests These are situated situated situated situ situ- In all parts of the country from Porto Rico to Alaska and one of oC the most important most Important duties Is to protect them I them from fire The method employed In the Nebraska Me- Me ei e- e i braska national forest Is to first clear a strip of oC land Twelve furrows are plowed plo on each side of oC this and the ground between them I it is burned over o This fire tire break will halt the flames driven by a hl high h wind Its cost 50 i cents a mile mite for each ach furrow over I ordinary ordinal land may run to S 50 O when hea heavy heat timber has to be cleared awa away To keep the forests up to standard between and 1500 0 at a aVes res must musti i be planted each MCh year In the Douglas I fir region of oC Oregon the seeds are broadcast and as the snow snow melts I they sink deeper and deeper Some are eaten by bo the birds but when the snow has haa disappeared most of them I are covered with enough earth to cause them to germinate and take root I This work will yield results only InI in inthe inthe the future but the national forests I are already a great asset anet Under exI expert expert ex ex- I pert selection many thousand f feet t of or orI I I timber arc are cut each year car |