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knowledge of the country and their enthusiasm for the work make 

 them admirably adapted for this service. 



It is said that the best times of day to see forest fires from look- 

 out stations are just after daylight and just before sunset. 



On the Deerlodge National Forest in Alontana one lookout 

 station has the record of reporting accurately, by distance and di- 

 rection, a fire that was 60 miles away. 



Residents of Wallace, Idaho, now claim that results of the 

 disastrous forest fires in northen Idaho in 1910 are being made 

 evident in the changed flow from a watershed then burned over, 

 which furnishes the city its water supply, not only for domestic 

 purposes, but also for the development of electricity for power 

 and light. In view of the situation, the Forest Service has under- 

 taken to reforest the denuded watershed. Some planting has al- 

 ready been done and eventually all of the watershed which is 

 included within National Forest boundaries is to be reforested. 



A little more than 33,000 acres in the White Mountains have 

 just been approved for purchase by the government at a meeting 

 of the National Forest Reservation Commission. 



These are in two separate tracts, both in New Hampshire, the 

 larger containing 31,100 acres on the watershed of the Pemige- 

 wasset river, a tributary to the Merrimac. Most of the conifers 

 have been cut to make paper pulp, but there are good stands of 

 beech, birch, and maple of considerable value. With fire kept 

 out there is said to be excellent promise of a new stand of spruce. 



The smaller purchase consists of several areas lying on the 

 watersheds of Little river and Gale river, both tributaries of the 

 Connecticut. These lands cover 2,000 acres in the locality of the 

 noted Franconia range and are contiguous to lands already ap- 

 proved for purchase ; hence they go far toward giving the gov- 

 ernment a solid body of land in this locality. The forest has 

 been cut over and consists chiefly of the northern hard-woods, 

 though some spruce remains from the original stand. 



At the same time that these White Mountain areas were ap- 

 proved, the Commission also approved the purchase of the Pisgah 



