Canadian Forestry Ma;^azine. August-Scpteuiher. 1920. 



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Manitoba is fortunate in having as one of its fire guardians Jas. T. Blackford, of Norway House. Mr. 

 Blackford believes in educating all elements of the population to observe every caution while in or 

 near the woods. Here we see the aftermath of a talk to Cross Lake Indians on fire prevention. 

 The audience is promising to extinguish all camp fires before leaving them. 



pine limits in Eastern Ontario starte 1 

 a fire on his land in order to clear 

 space for a potato patch. That single 

 fire burned from Mattawa westward 

 towards North Bay and consiuncd 

 more pine forests than would keep our 



bi;^ mill running for 56 \cars." 



The si^eaker was one who considers 

 all ])iiblic statements carefully and his 

 knowlc'i^'e of that fire was first haul. 



A potato patch versus 56 years' supply 

 of pine. 



Or a nej^lected camp fire versus a 

 pulp and paper mill. 



( )r a tossed-away ci^^arette versus a 

 million railroad ties. 



Or a locomotive smokestack versus 

 a strug'^lino- half-insured villajje. 



These are the equations impossible to 

 escape. 



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At Round Lake. Saskatchewan: A tire burning rapidly in clumps of willow and poplar. 



