Show fr Corr co t Y 3 Ille Illen n th 01 In r It r i gran y r r b Y l white JL OIT met ICS or of j y t S r i do 10 1 up IS lo loJ J n while tg our k tto i iJ J iJ y r Y K Y t t is r q rear SJ A AI I th t h Off V 1 J I rough 7 x Y 7 nf s Iho 0 c 2 7 Toe 2 I u 6 II IE we ire have had forest fires u uj reached proper er ISI II W lion dolts as A the fire fir or of ly h to lo J c where on two and n a half million acres every living thing was nud the fish h tiled ulon along time the river banks fl th the fire firo or of Ig 1871 l cb 11 over ocr two thou sand N q miles l In I nod In which bundred d people and nOli till the fire or of 1601 when that town lawn r fled ond six other places were destroyed Ju In x come oD ways the fires ot of lOS JOBS were the theo 0 worst o t known Expert foresters who n ho hohard hard luto since Inca l cn over ocr the state stater r that It is Ig to figure filore the dam ego done and that the waste lIlIle was i u The Thc loss 1011 hr by forest t fires In our country In the average C year reaches fifty millIon This figure W was far Cor exceeded gen Lf 1 last year J lIr The Tho drouth whIch was Ien eral was chiefly contributory but other helped omon them the indifference or of people to fires The government bad much to do Infighting In fighting arcs reH In 10 the national forests I but LUI preventive monsures kept the 1035 down to lo a 11 minimum The damage In n a forest ire cannot he calculated In dol hire nod and cents Though lJ there Will was rom coot J n a small 15 lots of oC lire life In the ibis 11 WI people for months lived In i terror fifty arty persons perished In lIch Izan J o cud wary wan suffered seriously from the crr effects In 0 the case or of large Inre trees s nn ao estimate cnn can be placed on the damn nou t nc age grows rester as 09 timber be comes comell but It is not rasy to calculate the to g growIng forest trees Santa Somo Ides Illen Idest t eau be 00 Inc when one reflects that It s costs Crow row to twenty dollars an acre to out to 10 plant tiny seedlings If a million acres ore are burned over oer and nil all young sass growth d destroyed troyed It is 18 clear the waste U b enormous cn c n It it Is n a more adequate system he hee e or at forest protection Is 18 needed Bud and even cen evenI cenI I fit at z the Indifferent have et at been aroused to fC the necessity of some orne systematic ThIS crusade fortunately we have n a United 1 1 States tOt i Forest Service and most mORt have n forestry department It Iii Is to them we wc must mut look for an solution of the tho problem hut but the they cannot curl lt without the cooperation of settlers arid the passing of oC favorable laws and fl II I ItI ties tI In the tray of ample Our forests Corets cover un an area or of about GY acres In tin Northwestern bites I once stretched time the great white pint 1100 for or lon the Atlantic and coast cout lie III the Southern pIne trees In the Mis IIA Valley ore hardwoods the oak hickory rah Mh and gurn and all on time the ln coast the redwood and fire Some Home Homel purls l or of these arnus are set Fiet aside for federal forest t amid lh these e ore under the or of Forestry Tubs bureau compared o of tm trained Ined officers to and Improve the reserved for lauds is II always rend ready to give advice to individuals lu and owners anti they hove n a firefighting system wIthIn the National Forests boundaries which hn bins materially to re reduced the annual losses As a 0 fIrst step toward instituting n a crusade against o 0 recurrence or of the fires or of 1005 1003 the national government sent G n and Raymond W Pullman capable or of the Iho forest service to lo probe the situation stud de deIse derise rise Ise moans for conditions In inthe the future Mr Ir Pullman visited time the Lake districts and sought It al first hood hand for lu his hili renew ot of the situation Forester D H is III Is III effort oil tile the part or of the be government the tho states KlateR corpora corporations and individuaLs There should be adequate fire In III every state where any onY forests are situated There are nrc those who advocate 1 n national fire der dc to lo protect nil forests but this may take yearn to If It Is 13 eer done doue What la IJ needed It at is 18 that the legislatures ot of the hc various states pass better laws 1118 for Cor the of oC forests that more moru monc money should lIc be ap il for Cur thus purpose and that lOon who ruthlessly set o ct to to forests rests should be punI 0 j r J e t 1 i r A t 1 i f d 1 f J l A H t J Jg s g l f t r t 7 I Y aF aFy t i dj 1 i s 1 y 1 l t ID g Q d F y a a I rl y r i lil J I I s r i a y t Y i J r H k tl J z 3 4 4 ff ml if I d r y ft fJ I I Ico i A 91 P rl f 1 f t co th 40 J t 4 4 w r I s t J r e eit it t l I g i iS 1 f t Jl j r t i J i ii i I Sr Sri i 1 4 tM jJ i r f i f r f s A t si f i 1 f f 1 1 1 1 wJ h t c ft l Q o i ih jT s I i f o Jj I If KL 1 f 4 y at T 7 Q i l lW L Li Lt ff W to j r i J o ot t a t a vj l o d be ber i r r rr w r f a l Y a T a X I me d dI tl I 7 1 2 f I 1 Y i f f ay ayr r r i is s i try I J Jr r L i iEE EE kr 1 t f G Yr C s E a d k l rl f 7 rr y l N S r Ft I r k r 1 r rL ny r i i ory i M ti tic rf 9 w y r c iii a n 1 r p 1 s c t h hr r 3 by V u rt q t esz l o r a J t e 2 r n v bra r L t r V 2 la A cause or of forest lit fires fire are the sparks from Crom locomotives and sawmills Many Inn or of the thc latter are and poorly protected TUe or from frolD railroads is 11 so great that thaI laul G proposes that have hao patrolmen who could rol rollow low lon the trains nil its they tiler traverse e tits the forC forests and extinguish any small fire firo might he started d Other of tire are campers berry pickers sold Ill seek lielke seekers e ers who un ere careless hl n putting out fires In III spite or of the warnings that lire are posted pOlte 1 There mire also factors h beyond oncI the control of oC mankind such us 11 which In iii one lle year ear started O forest In the national forests In the case or of forest orl fires prevention is III the first thIn thing to he be considered for tor lifter after Q a fire gains headway It le 18 with the ut utmost utmost most difficulty extinguished It is II gen Ien generally conceded that forest patrol is 18 nn an essential nn and that It ought to 10 lie be adopted The Qt of n a lire that we have n a body of men Ulen cud equipped with special trains and their whole time In fn guarding the forests ot of America who see seethe Set the wisdom or of our nur present state Systems stem I ohIO also call for forest patrol and point to toI the e experience of oC tL tI forests In 10 these n ranger er on guard travels over Oer the I district In which he line hns coarse tt regu reg her Intervals and keeps n careful lookout for any tires Urell that 1011 may bate started his last lu In some pieces th thre re are lookout points mom which lie he can cun see n a long lont OWl and roads bridges bridge and telephone lines help him try Ir perform his hiM tic III follows rollow trains train and puts omit three that arse e this entice amid lie he rides along the route that people to 10 see lice Ir if they obe obey the that on trees toy Bf this patro the government forest service reduced harm over frum froum acres to In lol 1901 to In 1007 and In Let same time the acreage ot of for forests became three times limes larger largel On the bawls of oC this expense to life tho Forest Service the Whole forest uren of the United limited Stilt States could coull be for about n cent on nn acre nere This ThIll wo would ld m mean In n II lu In timber 10 losses I tI In hr nn the tor forest fire service is 15 with the game gAm and onel most warden who olio lies hils Ht deputies um end thc they direct the tho su super supervisors r visors 1110 or of time tow towns liS y yet t practically nil all parts of tile the upper peninsula nod mach machof of the lower suffered because o there thre ss is 18 no complete if Ie any further were needed to impress the advisability 0 of forest patrol It is III coining from the beet or of our lumber lumbermen men who Iho are arc to do 10 this selves Many hue have their men who ho ore constantly Joins OCr the ground and In some the state authorizes l these thell men to tn arrests if IC the of oC tilt this patrol I Is bat omit I may 00 Jn 11 I and one nol n to him nary 11 embus and 1 so 0 r ri c VIty I IU In Ir II IIi ur i n alit III nut It ti ta lOud I p 1 hll It 1111 to 10 many that time best implements Implement for or fighting forest Ores fires mire the ux us the mattock the spade anti in 10 some cases dynamite The rhe character or of the country timber dauber w weather amid time o of determine what method omit be pursued In III swamps the lire fre travels lInel slowly but bul In dry open it Il stoves so 60 quickly that Ihal time the must so go ahead and tt tr to 10 fluid nn an upon upen I ground to 10 trench h from froll there Once in III n while a 11 fire troves so fast that dual a man cannot keep ahead or of It II Tt It springs from tree to tree anti burns burn Ao o holly that flee ny as soon ns as It starts baring flames show showers ers or of sparks sparl amid dense smoke make n forest firm firc n thin or of terror Spring fires Orl damage e the thu trees whIch me are full tull or of sup and nud fall tires usually run deep decD lives n year lIne have been lost on ona onan I an a erno from forest fires hot but this and oUlI the loss of oC are not the tho only daft n nee For therl Hier lj Is great h truc to new mien growth no an growth or of 20 0 cubit f feet ct leer ncr acre Is The damage to soh 1101 fertility also 1110 be Clue rhe humus or of vegetable matter Is destroyed for I I top soil soli I is turned to ashen and It takes many years yen to set get hack back permanent In n the same wa way the river courses and adjacent farms ore are liable to disaster from floods and drouth DIrectly and ond In indirectly directly we ore are nil all interested In the for tor forests ests and the waters that rise rl e among IDOn them Hundreds of DC cotton mills pulp mulls saw mulls Ind factories or of various kinds are nrc dependent upon the regular OO flow or of the e rivers Any one of these factors ought to 10 be enough h to prompt prel preventive othe mena ures ure Gifford calls attention to the that thaL success or allure In ht the so se lotion or of the forest hire means meon the continual use of the laud land or the perpetual burden of oC caring for vast bar barren fIll ren wl wastes tes Iud and ho he adds The fire den system hR has been heen fairly successful In places but its Ils fundamental Ii Is lint It Is IH not lIot n preventive system Je D Dall all our states far or mouths before the Im Immense mense small 11 fires res burn hurn by bythe bythe the hundreds and It if the nn forests i CUll can he be protected so fI tires have r nl there in II no reason ou why outside be properly I I v 1 Forest fires can nt lit checked os as shown Jo In the experience of foreign countries The cooperation or of oil all people will do much toward abating Lie IIlma c Settlers alone can do P wor work Iu in the national forest their help I is considered nn an but too often orten they are A settler may see Bee smoke In 10 the distance think It Is from mother settlers Ile He h about leaving his work tO III and nOlI runs rUI the chance or of its being beluS harmless a chance lu In which Ill Ue sometimes loses lose Those who have been heen agitating the con or of the depleted forests fees reo hopeful the problem will trill hI be soh cd II if settlers and practical give h their support Successful do dl to tt 11 large e extent gam the of oC the forest fire problem the thu t 1 or of r the protection or of crowth and and the molt part of this I s the prevention of oC |