Arbor and Bird Day Bulletin 



appoint a suitable man to supervise the clearing at the contractor's 

 expense. 



About September 10th and following some light showers which 

 made burning quite safe, another circular letter was forwarded to 

 the field force, instructing them to urge all public authorities, private 

 persons and contractors to clear up forest waste accumulated from 

 clearing of right of way. Also, that whenever was found any hazardous 

 forest waste that in their opinion could be disposed of with reasonable 

 safety they should urge the owner, tenant, logger, contractor or public 

 authorities, as the case might be, to burn or otherwise dispose of it, 

 and when not otherwise engaged to assist them in so doing. Much 

 good was accomplished by these efforts; thousands of acres of forest 

 waste was burned with slight loss to adjacent timber or other property. 



The state highway commissioner and many boards of county com- 

 missioners and engineers heartily co-operated with us in the enforce- 

 ment of the law. However, authorities in some counties are neglectful 

 and indifferent, permitting contractors or supervisors to leave un- 

 burned on the highways great piles of debris that, when thoroughly 

 dry, create very dangerous risks to adjacent timber or other property. 



It has been the practice of some contractors to log up great piles 

 of timber and rubbish along roadsides, often piled up against valuable 

 standing timber in such manner as that it is impossible to burn with- 

 out destroying the trees, and with great risk of starting crown fires. 

 There are instances where contractors have had permission to pile 

 waste and fell trees on private property adjoining right of way. This 

 should not be permitted, for the hazard is as great off the right of way 

 as on, unless removed to a point where it cannot communicate with 

 other property when fired. There are numerous instances throughout 

 the state where expensive and destructive fires have originated from 

 waste materials from road clearing. 



The co-operative work in the field was most agreeable and satis- 

 factory from every standpoint. The state and federal service, assisted 

 by settlers, co-operated and divided the cost of suppressing forest 

 fire in western Jefferson county, where state, federal and private lands 

 intermingled. And again in Clallam county, assisted by the Wash- 

 ington Forest Fire Association, they co-operated in holding in check 

 two of the worst fires of the season. 



O to be lost in the wind and the sun, 



To be one with the grass and the stream 

 With never a care while the waters run, 



With never a thought in my dream; 

 To be part of the Robin's lilting call, 



And part of the Bobolink's chime, 

 Lying close to the shy Thrush singing alone, 



And lapped in the thicket's rhyme! 



Hamlin Garland. 



