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a zone two or three hundred feet wide, on which the brush is piled 

 and later burned surrounds a considerable area of cuttinsr where 

 the slash is scattered. 



It was determined by expression of all the Supervisors that 

 brush scattering was practiced to some extent on all of the 

 Forests in the District. 



Fre;e Use. 



It appears that free use for green timber was not granted on 

 a majority of the Forests in the district, and that the policy is to 

 restrict the free use of green timber as rapidly and as far as 

 possible. Free use must be handled on each Forest according to 

 its local conditions. 



The question was asked whether any fire lines had been built 

 through granting free use of timber, either living or dead, along 

 roads. 



Supervisor Imes of the Black Hills (S) Forest said: ''We 

 had a fire in the Black Hills last summer that jumped a plowed 

 field 300 yards wide. I decided that if we are going to have fire 

 lines that will be any advantage, they must be pretty wide. We 

 have numerous roads through the Forest, but think it will be 

 necessary to widen them, if they are to be of any great advantage 

 in case of fire. So I have told the ranger that when an applicant 

 was entitled to a free use permit, he should confine the cutting 

 to within 100 feet of the road, and I have endeavored to confine 

 all free use permits to such places." 



Reconnaissance. 



The practice of employing forest school students for recon- 

 naissance, as has been the practice for the past five years, was 

 favored by a large majority of the Supervisors. Some were of 

 the opinion that the rangers could do the work better, but they 

 could not be spared from other work during the summer; others 

 believed that the inexperience of the forest school men was out- 

 weighed by the interest they took in forest work. 



Method of Coeeecting Cones. 



Supervisor Wheeler of the Colorado Forest said that Western 

 Yellow Pine cones were gathered on that Forest by picking by 

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