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killed successive crops of young 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 enforce 
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 law 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 doubtful 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. 
