REPORT OF SPECIAL FORESTRY COMMITTEE 29 



Lookout Towers 



For forest fife protect on, four 55-foot steel look- 

 out towers have been built on some of the highest 

 hills within the forest reserve. From all the towers 

 the country can be seen for 10 miles in almost any 

 direction, and during dangerously dry weather the 

 observers report immediately by telephone any fire or 

 smoke that may be seen. The average cost of the 

 towers has been $136.90. 



Cutting Stubs 



Old dead stubs are one of the most prolific means 

 of spreading forest fires, as the fire quickly runs up 

 the dead bark to the top of the tree, and a slight 

 wind will carry the burning bark for long distances. 

 Such old stubs have been cut back for six rods on 

 each side of over 125 miles of roads and fire lines at 

 an average cost of less than $6 per mile. 



Slash Burning 



Where the slash from old lumbering operations is 

 heavy, and especially where it adjoins timber or 

 other valuable property, it is necessary to pile and 

 burn it so that it shall not be a constant meance to 

 the forest reserve. Over 1500 acres of dangerous 

 slashings have been destroyed at an average cost of 

 $5 per acre. 



Roads 



In order to make the forest reserve easily acces- 

 sible to the forestry force, to the few settlers who 

 live in this region, and to the thousands of tourists, 

 and also to serve as fire lines, there have been con- 

 structed 248 miles of dirt roads, at a cost of $32,734, 

 or an average cost of $131.58 per mile. 



Fire Lines 



To control the spread of forest fires, the forest re- 

 serves have been gridironed with a system of roads 



