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We should like very much to see it duplicated in Wisconsin. Eau Claire 

 Leader. 



Exhibits the fact that the Chief Fire Warden is in close touch with the fire 

 wardens in each town in the state. Roseau Times, 



The Minnesota law is one of the best and most progressive in force in any of 

 the states. Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the U. S. Division of Forestry. 



RESOLVED, As a fundamental proposition of rational forestry, we commend 

 the well-organized effort of the State of Minnesota to suppress forest fires, being 

 aware that no advance can be made in forest management without such protec- 

 tion. Resolution adopted by the American Forestry Association. 



Under the vigorous administration of the present Chief Fire Warden much 

 has been done to promote the growth of a correct public sentiment and not a little 

 has been accomplished in the actual prevention and suppression of fires. 



Warning notices in great numbers have been posted and the intelligent co- 

 operation of a large force of assistant wardens has been secured. During the 

 drought in the early summer of the present year over 300 fire wardens were in 

 correspondence with their chief, reporting precautions taken, and otherwise 

 showing their interest and activity. The system is doubtless capable of improve- 

 ment, but in its inception and reasonably successful working a great step has been 

 taken, and by so much Minnesota is well in advance of Michigan and Wisconsin. 

 Prof. V. M. Scalding of the University of Michigan, in " Science" for Decem- 

 ber 28, i goo. 



Minnesota is taking a foremost place among the commonwealths that are 

 giving attention to forestry. The annual reports of General C. C. Andrews, 

 really forestry reports, are of great interest and value. Democrat Chronicle, 

 Rochester, N. Y. (1901). 



Preventing fires by careful watching and prompt punishment for law breaking 

 hunters and campers, and also by quick action in stopping incipient fires are the 

 chief means resorted to to protect the forests from conflagration. This sort of 

 work Chief Fire Warden Andrews is doing in Minnesota to as great an extent as 

 is possible with the means at his disposal to do with. Farm, Stock and Home, 

 Minneapolis (1906). 



While it is never safe to speak too glowingly of a service that has been per- 

 formed while there is yet danger of failure, it has undoubtedly been proven that 

 the work of the department of the chief fire warden of Minnesota has been efficient 

 during the years since it was created. Backed by the law against carelessness with 

 fire in the woods, the fire warden and his deputies have certainly assisted in making 

 : t possible to say that since the great Hinckley fire in 1894 the forests of this state 

 have been comparatively free from fires. Possibly natural conditions have con- 

 tributed largely to this, but it is nevertheless true that Minnesota's forest regula- 

 tions are, in this respect, very satisfactory. They can be made more so if the next 

 Legislature will provide more liberally for the work. Preserving present forests 

 from fires is as valuable a work as the encouragement of conservative lumbering, 

 or the replanting of forests. Mississippi Valley Lumberman (1906). 



