Show coo RAilROADS HELP fOREST SERVICE Sections in Intermountain States Get Benefit of New Plan of Warning SPOKANE Wash Vash May 28 Tho Western Forestry and Conservation association of or which Albert Alhert 1 J L FIe Flewelling welling o or of Spokane Is president has haa perfected a plan to utilize certain I departments of or the railroads operating In Utah Washington Oregon Califor California California nia Idaho and Montana In warning tho people In the tho five states slates against carelessness Ith fires In the tho forests during the summer ummer months E B T Allen forester of ot the tho association tion lion mado made the foregoing announce announcement announcement ment while In Spokane and outlined tho the plan In brief brio as follows Forest protection Is of the utmost benefit to all our people and we be bc behove hove wo we o can enlist their cooperation In this work With that end in view all ticket time tables fold folders folders I ers ors and describing mountain lake and forest resorts for western distribution will contain suggestions as ae how to lo avert camp and other fires fireR also the tho means to he employed In tho the element Booklets dealing with Uh the tho same subject will be placed In observation cars and pla pia placards cards are to be posted In the wait waiting Wl waiting t tIng ing rooms of forest stations The as association will bear the tho extra expense occasioned by tills this work No o agency has quicker and bettor means of ot reaching tho the public than the tho railroads as almost everyone travels and reads reada railroad literature and this stop step by tho the Western Vestern Forestry and Conservation association In taking tho the first attempt to utilize It for forest protection Railroad officials are arc keen keon keenly keenly ly Interested In the plan as the roads profit prom equally with the public In re rev reducing the destruction of oC forest re resources resources sources Tho The lumber Industry not only furnished a n large proportion of their bul but also brings Into the northwestern and coast stales tates I more then a year ear most moat of or which goes g Into general circulation to build lip lp of oC all kinds Irrigation and power dower development depend nd much on forest regulation of or stream flow Tourist and resort travel Is affected by b destruction of scenic and game conditions bv hy forest fires and every cry acre of timber or second growth destroyed means menns a money mane loss to the tho railroads as well ell as 88 to the nation |