UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 FOREST SERVICE 



(Prom the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 



San Francisco Office) 



TH'iBTRIAND COTERS RElJE'i-' 

 FIRE COOPERATION 



From the Trinity National Forest comes the announcement 

 that the Sugar Pine Investment Comparer and the Bayside Lumber Company 

 have just agreed for the third year to cooperate with the Government 

 in protecting their timber holdings from fire.. 



During the two years that such cooperation has 'been in 

 effect fires have "been confined to less than one acre in the dis- 

 tricts protected. During the season rf 1913, which was unprecedented 

 in the number of lightning fires, the 36 fires which started in one 

 district were put out before they reached an average size of 120 feet 

 square . 



Since these and nfcfesx certain other companies in Cali- 

 fornia have proved by experience that their forests can be protected 

 at small c^st by means of cooperation, the Government foresters be- 

 lieve that in Lhe near future practically all California tinbrr ov/n- 

 ers will take similar measures tc safeguard their forests. 



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