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would have to be carefully worked out, but the idea is that prevention 

 must be practiced in the lumbering, in order to handle the fire 

 situation. 



3. I believe that an attempt should be made to make the forests 

 which are lumbered more fire proof. We are willing to co-operate in 

 studies of hardwood slash disposal, in order to ascertain the expe- 

 diency, costs, benefits, length of time of the fire risks, etc., and these 

 provisions are to be applied. 



3. Whenever lumbering operations take place, the resultant is an 

 increased forest fire risk. One owner may lumber his property, while 

 the adjacent owner may not cut. On account of the operations con- 

 ducted, the value of the adjacent unlumbered land has been reduced 

 on account of the increased forest fire risk. It would, therefore, seem 

 on account of an operator causing a fire risk and hazard, which must 

 be classed as a nuisance, that r.here should be some burden imposed 

 upon him in connection therewith. Quite likely an operator should pay 

 a cutting tax and this money should be used to build fire lines or the 

 employment of additonal patrolmen, sub-observation stations or some 

 other fire preventive or protective measure and the money to be ex- 

 pended on the area where the timber is cut, 



4. Fire lines should be left around the operations. No slash 

 should be left within at least 50 feet of the lands of the adjacent 

 owner, nor in the parcels described in No. 1 above, nor should slash 

 be left within 50 feet of the edge of the cutting. 



5. It would be very desirable, althouhg there is some question as 

 to how it can be worked out legally, to provide that there be left 

 strips of uncut timber along highways, railroads, rivers, lakes, etc., 

 and that no softwood be cut within a short distance and hardwood 

 within a wider strip. I believe the lumbermen could well afford to 

 leave this material, as it would screen their cutting; make a fire line; 

 not attract attention to the removal of the forest cover, and thus save 

 public criticism of their work. 



The above applies to lands upon which operations are to be con- 

 ducted, but there are other classes which are now lying unproductive 

 and I believe owners should be required to reforest their land with 

 suitable trees, provided they are furnished free of cost at the 

 nursery. 



There has been so much discussion in the past in regard to silvicul- 

 tural management of the forests and to the younger men the question 

 as to what to do is sometimes uncertain. We simply have to look 

 back to the practice of Pinchot and Graves at Nehasane and compare 



