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killed successive crops of yonng trees until now only a stand of bean poles 

 is left. 



The question may be raised as to whether or not it is possible to enfoi-ce 

 an anti-forest fire law. This might well be answered by referring to the 

 results obtained by our northern neighbor. Canada has a forest fire law 

 and enforces it. When a hunter or camper goes into a Canadian forest he 

 knows beforehand just what will happen to him if he allows a fire to escape 

 in the woods. The farmers have the same information and as a result such 

 fires simply do not happen. The few forest fires that have been reported 

 from Canada have either been set through agencies over which no control 

 can be practiced (such as lightning) or they were "nipped in the bud" 

 through the work of the laAV enforcing bodies. 



The same laws and the same methods which have reduced Canadian fires 

 to a minimum might well be applied to our own country and our own state. 

 We would then have a chance to provide a timber supply for the future 

 without tapping the public till to obtain funds for a gigantic experiment 

 which is at best but doulitful in its outcome — but very certain in its outgo. 



A part of a Michigan forest that has grown in the last sixty years. An evidence 

 of what may be expected on cut-over lands when fire is kept out. 



