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ment of permits before any camping can be done in certain parts of the 

 National Forests. The campaign of law enforcement, involving the 

 education of forest officers in the rudiments of detective work, posting 

 of signs and active newspaper campaign, also more severe railroad fire 

 legislation, is proposed. 



2. The board concluded that for inaccessible forest areas (those 

 located 15 miles or more from an automobile road), the general labor 

 market has proved inadequate to furnish fire fighters of the quality, 

 or within the time limit necessary to control forest fires. For such 

 areas it is proposed to take eighty per cent of the average fire fighting 

 cost during the past five years and make this money available annually 

 for the employment of crews of men to be used throughout the fire 

 season within the inaccessible forests. These men will be used to 

 build trails when not needed for fighting fire. It is tentatively proposed 

 that no other expense will be incurred for fire fighting beyond what 

 can be accomplished by this force, and it is confidently expected, and 

 there is every reason to believe that the actual cost of fire protection 

 will be greatly reduced ; the protection will be more effective, and at 

 the same time the forests will be more rapidly equipped with trails, 

 roads, and telephone lines. 



For accessible areas the board recommends the stationing of soldiers 

 to take the place of the fire fighters obtained from the general labor 

 market. Fire fighters hired at an hour basis have shown such gross 

 inefficiency and lack of interest that the board concludes it is almost 

 useless to spend the money necessary to get them from the various 

 towns to the fires, and no other solution seems within reach except the 

 use of soldiers. J. F. PrFston. 



Offices of Maryland State Board of Forestry Completely 



Destroyed by Fire 



The offices of the Maryland State Board of Forestry in McCoy 

 Hall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, were destroyed by fire in 

 the total destruction of the building on Thanksgiving night, November 

 27. With the exception of some publications and exhibit material 

 which was kept in another building, everything was destroyed, including 

 valuable records representing several years of field study and investi- 

 gation, a report in manuscript form, 700 lantern slides, some 1,500 

 photographic negatives, about 3,000 photographs, a forest library of 

 some 200 volumes, together with a nearly complete set of State publica- 

 tions on forestry, and publications of the Federal Forest Service. One 



