924 



Fir Continued 

 California red 



Abies magnifica, 805, 838 



See also Fir, red. 

 concolor. See Fir, white, 

 corkbark, Abies lasiocarpa var. 



arizonica, 24 



Fraser, Abies fraseri, 773 

 grand, Abies grand is, 804-805, 



838 



Nikko, Abies homolepis, 59 

 noble, Abies procera, 805, 838 

 Pacific silver, Abies amabilis, 



804 

 red (California red fir), Abies 



magnifica, 250 

 silver, Abies alba, 327 

 white, Abies concolor, 58-59, 



71, 121, 352, 423, 804 

 Fire 



acreage burned in South, 517 

 burning period, 26 

 control 



in north, 268 



on watersheds, 606-607 



Weather Bureau, 26 

 damage 



and control in Alaska, 364- 

 365 



in Black Hills, 325 



shelterbelts, 199 

 danger 



causes in South, 527 



measuring stations, 497 



rating, 494-495, 497-498 

 dispatcher, 26 

 effects on 



growth, 9 



wildlife, 561 

 fighters 



qualifications, 492 



transport, 514 

 fighting 



costs, 530 



from the air. Clayton S. 

 Crocker, 508-516 



machines, use in South. Ar- 

 thur W. Hartman, 527-532 



problems, 27, 284, 521-522 

 hazard to southern plantation, 



216 



lines, superior types, 528 

 man-caused vs. lightning, 26 

 on Cedar Creek. Frank J. Jef- 

 ferson, 498-508 

 organization, building. Earl S. 



Peirce, Carl A. Gustafson, 



485-493 

 precautions, 26 

 protection 



cooperation, 667-668 



for flood control, 612 



in South, 25, 281-282, 527 



national forests, 304 



State forests, 392 



Willamette, 327-328 

 reporting, 27 



Index 



Fire Continued 

 tool 



in management, 479 

 southern pine. Arthur W. 



Hartman, 517-527 

 use 



by Indians, 26 



in control of brown spot 



needle disease, 523-524 

 Fires, number by ownership and 



causes, 1947, 530 

 Fish 



and forests. Paul R. Needham 

 and Fred W. Johnson, 581- 

 585 

 benefits from stream improve- 



ment, 569 

 effect of 

 fire, 28 



forest change, 566-567 

 streamside cover and roads, 



568 

 hatcheries 



development, 567 

 stocking, 582 

 in Virginia conservation plan, 



590 



restocking, 567, 570 

 Fish and Wildlife Service, 138, 



387, 582 

 Fisheries, salmon, Alaska, 371- 



372 

 Fishing 



in national forests, 550, 554 

 in national parks, 545 

 value to State, 585 

 Flambeautree, Bell, Spathodea cam- 



pan ulata, 65 



Flambuoyant-tree, Delonix regia 

 (syn. Poinciana regia), 64, 

 828 



Flat Tops Wilderness, 542 

 Flood Control Act of 1936, 610- 



611 

 Flood control 



George R. Phillips, and Bernard 



Frank, 609-614 

 by vegetation or litter, 607 

 improvements on private land, 



611 

 Floods, prevention by 



forests, 117-118, 593, 594, 600, 



601 



watersheds, 593, 594, 600, 601 

 Florida 



Atlantic Coast Line Railroad 



land, 284 



farmer's profit from woods, 176 

 fire-fighting machines, 527 

 naval stores, 288, 290, 291-292 

 pine plantations, 217-218 

 prescribed burning experiments, 



522-523 



protective burning, 518-519 

 shade trees, 64 



spacings in plantations, 213 

 timber growing, 298 

 turpentining, 296 



Florida State Nursery, 216, 217 

 Flowering 

 factors, 8 



trees in urban planting, 46-47 

 Fluorine sprays, 472-473 

 FONTANNA, STANLEY G.: State 



Forests, 390-394 



Food and Agriculture Organiza- 

 tion 

 quoted, 760 

 work, 742, 752 

 Forage 



forest range, use, 27 

 management, 359 

 production by forests, 725-726 

 Foreign trade in timber, 723-724 

 Forest 



areas, world, 745 



commodities, production and 



use, 746 

 communities, security. Dahl J. 



Kirkpatrick, 334-339 

 conservation 



early efforts, 702, 703-709 

 relation to soil conservation, 



658-659 

 task ahead, 757 

 See also Conservation, 

 drain 



balance with growth, world, 



750 



See also Timber balance, 

 fire- 

 bad business, your business. 

 R. F. Hammatt, 479-485 

 Maine, 1947, 493 

 occurrence maps, 488, 490, 



512, 516 



organization, plans, 485 

 parachute jumpers, 478 

 parts, 25 



Pellegrin, Calif., 1947, 480 

 Pestigo, Wis., 1871, 480 

 St. Maries, Idaho, 1910, 480 

 fires 



causes, 24-25, 482, 485-486 

 control 



economic fundamentals, 532 

 scientific approach, 712 

 costs, 477, 497 

 day classification, 496 

 detection, 485, 487, 491 

 incendiary, 482 



interruption of military train- 

 ing, 483 

 numbers, daily variation, 493- 



494 

 on public and private land, 



485 



outstanding, 25, 478 

 presuppression plans, 486 

 smokers, 477, 483, 484 

 10 a. m. "deadline," 507 

 use of radio, 478-479 

 See also Fires; Wildfires, 

 growth, world, 748-749 

 improvement, factors, 205 



