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Show TAKE CARE OF THE FORE8TS. Associations Formed to Preserve the Little Timber Remaining! . Fire Insurance for forests Is a novelty. nov-elty. In tho Pacific northwest the Washington Forest Fire , association has elected oflcers and begun, work with .1,000,000 acres under Ug charge. The plana include a system of patrol by niP3ers, resembling the work done by tho United States forest sorvlce In warding off and putting out fires. Oregon and Idaho have similar., organisation or-ganisation for like work:. In Idaho the state treasury pays out that part ot the expense, which Is borne' by taxation. tax-ation. A western railroad company has large, holdings In timber land and Is carrying out successfully plans for guarding them against fire. At the other end of tho .continent Maino owners own-ers of forests have undertaken similar plans (o protect the trees from their great adversary, Are. In other parts ot the country similar need Is felt for protecting the forests from Are, as Is evidenced by tho establishment of like organizations In different sections. It is urged that fires have destroyed more trees than lumbermen have felled. While timber was plentiful the waste went unnoticed. But now that wood famines seem. Imminent and every tree counts, owners of forest land nre beginning, to tako precautionary precaution-ary moasures so that the little wood remaining may last. |