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AMERICAN FOt<ESTRY 



Inside the Park, 

 the elk took to their new surroundings as if to the manner born and are now thriving and contented. 



one of the bulls became infuriated and, 

 charging a helpless female, pushed her 

 over a precipice into a canyon, hundreds 

 of feet below. This was the only- 

 tragedy of the journey. 



As the herd at Itasca Park grows 

 larger — and the Government's experi- 

 ence shows that the animals multiply 

 very rapidly — the plan is to distribute 

 them among different State Forests in 

 various parts of Minnesota. "But 

 where are those forests?" the reader 



may ask. The answer is, "There are 

 practically none as yet." Whether such 

 forests shall be created, and whether the 

 beautiful creatures of the wild shall in- 

 habit them, depends on the action to be 

 taken on the forestry amendment to the 

 State Constitution, next November, the 

 adoption of which amendment will per- 

 mit the use of waste and non-agricul- 

 tural land for the growing of timber 

 and the harboring of game. 



EXAMPLE OF FIRE PROTECTION 



By Jack Guyton 



THE actual saving of timber from 

 destruction by fire which may 

 be effected by a local organiza- 

 tion is well illustrated by the 

 work of the Coos County Fire Patrol 

 Association of Oregon. This was the 

 first county fire-fighting body in the 

 State and since its organization and 

 successful operation tifnl)er owners of 

 twelve or fifteen other counties in the 

 State have copied the plan and formed 

 county associations' along the same 

 lines. 



The Coos County Association was 

 organized in liJlO. W. J. Conrad is the 

 secretary, and he devotes his time to 

 arranging and carrying into execution 

 plans for saving the timber. Before 

 this organization existed sometimes as 

 high as 10,000,000 feet of timber would 

 be burned in the county in a season. In- 

 dividual owners fought fires but in an 

 unsystematic manner. Last year there 

 was no loss of timber by fire, due to the 

 work of the county associatif)n. This" 

 is on the theory of reducing the fire 



