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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 tiya 

 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 t 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 

 s possible with the means at his disposal to do with. Farm, Stock and ffbme, 

 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. Mississippi Valley Lumberman (1906). 



[From Gen. Henry L. Abbot, Colonel of Engineers, U. S. Army, retired, one 

 of the commission appointed by the National Academy of Sciences to consider and 

 report a forest policy for the United States and upon whose report the forest 

 reserves were established.] CAMBRIDGE, MASS., June 29, 1901. 



Mr. C. C. Andrews, Chief Fire Warden, St. Paul, Minn. Dear Sir: Please 

 accept my thanks for the copy of your annual report for the year 1900, which has 

 come safely to hand. I need not say how much those who appreciate the value of 

 our forests admire the good work you are doing for their proper treatment. 



Yours truly, HENRY L. ABBOT. 



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