showing how fully it is now realized that protection against 

 fire is of the greatest importune ./ 



It is safe to sa3< r that fires in this country have 

 destroyed more timber than lumbermen have cut. TVhen timber 

 wan abundant, the waste packed a 1 .most unnoticed, but now that 

 a scarcity is at hand and an actual wood famine threatens in 

 the near future, the OTmers of forest lands are waking up and 

 taking action to save what is left. 



