cm the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 



San Francisco Office) 



$RTMEN T S AID SOUGHT 



.INST FOREST PIKES 



Because of the fact that many forest fires are set 

 ough the carelessness of hunters, campers, and others who go in -: 

 woods for recreation, the forest service has taken up with mar 

 turers of fire-arms and ammunition the question of a cooperative 

 angement through which purchasers and users of guns and cartrid*- a 

 11 be reminded of the fire danger. 



It has been pointed out that in the lumber regions of 

 the northwest, for example, manufacturers and other business men 

 Lave been having printed or stamped on their stationery and pay che::' 

 7 >rious crisp, catchy statements about the loss which the public s ."* 

 , ors through the decreased demand for labot and decreased money in 

 Circulation, if timber - which is the source of many of the north- 

 Test's industries - is burned up. 



It has also been pointed out that in the east, particnl. 

 I?, many forest fires are started by the carelessness of hunters w' o 

 ^rop burning matches, cigar or cigaretts stumps, or pipe coals in !K J 

 woods, or perhaps build a fire which is left burning when the hunt./* 

 goes on Forest fires, of course, greatly injure the interests of 

 sportsmen by robbing the birds of their proper cover. They also i .- 

 {air the fcod supply of both birds and big game, through the desti 1 c 

 tion of the undergrowth which furnishes browse , berries, and other i'< 



153-F 



