FOREST FIRES 



How They Can Be Prevented in the 

 Future 



I. 

 Where is the Trouble? 



a Locally: 



1. Large areas of wild lands and forest 

 lands are held by owners (including the State) 

 who do not make any effort to protect them 

 against fire. The districts most endangered 

 are too thinly populated. 



2. Bad and irresponsible persons, locally, 

 are permitted to set fires without let or hin- 

 drance. This is true of the farmer's wood lot 

 as well as of the large areas of wild lands. 



3. Lack of restraint leads everybody to be 

 too careless with fires at all times. 



4. The township generally does not (in 

 many cases can not) make proper effort to 

 prevent fires. 



5. The fighting of forest fires by the town 

 is usually left until fires threaten the settle- 

 ments, and until the fires are too large. In dry 

 seasons this leads to calamities. 



6. The town officials rarely do their duty 

 in this matter because it makes them unpopu- 

 lar and the law does not compel them so to do. 



7. The recent laws offer $2 per day for 

 fighting fires, and the town boards allow this 



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