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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ^ 

 Vfashingtcn, Feb /0fc A co-opetWrF-e^ agreement for the patrol 



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 of danger jus foot hill areas in and around the Sierra (S) N 



l Forest, California, where forest fires have done con- 

 riderable damage in the past years' has just been entered into 

 by the United States Forest Service and G. B. Lull, State For- 

 ester of California, The work will bo in co-operation with 

 Kern and Tulare counties. Each county will furnish two fire 

 wardens to serve from Hay 15 to October 15, and the government 

 will furnish two guards in each county for the work during the 

 same period. The entire force of eight men will be appointed 

 by the officers in charge of the Sierra Forest and the patrol 

 organized and directed so as t^ protect most effectively the 

 entire foot hill belt within and outside the National Forest. 

 The protection ^f this foot hill region is most important, for 

 it is the most dangerous fire belt in California. 



State* Forester Lull is most hopeful that the plan 

 will work in checking the dangerous forest fires to a degree 

 where loss through them will be very little compared with 

 losses in previous years. The government's foresters in Wash- 

 ington have also approved the plan of co-operation in all of 

 its details and have said that the Forest Service will be ready 

 to put it in effect in other forests in California where, looal 

 conditions warrant and where the necessary guards can be fur- 

 nished without serious injury to their work. Forest officers 

 and individuals who desire such co-operation in fire fighting 

 between the government and the state have been requested to 

 confer with State Forester Lull. 



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