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Show FOREST FIRE PROTECTION Twenty-four states or more will receive re-ceive $400,000 of federal funds for the protection of their forest lands from fires during the fiscal year beginning be-ginning July 1, according to the United States forest service. The four important limitations governing federal co-operation in fire protection under the Weeks law are: 1. It is extended only to' states that have provided by law for a comprehensive com-prehensive system of fire protection. 2. It is limited to the watersheds of navigable streams. 3. The state must expend an amount at least equal to the federal appropriations for that state. 4. Fire protection must Include not only merchantable timber, but alfo young growth and cut-over lands! in olher words, it mus: cover all classes of forest lands. Total annual cost of providing reasonable rea-sonable protection from fire to the forests of the country is estimated by the forest service and state foresters at $6,000,000, of which the $400,000 furnished by the federal government scarcely exceeds 6 per cent. |