describing the "Malheur F i r e." 

 Along with the letter were a large 

 number of views taken in that 

 vicinity. During this siege of 52 

 days Morris was compelled to see 

 his beautiful forest of 500,000 acres 

 being reduced to a desolate waste. 

 He tells us as well as do the pictures 

 how the Cedars and White Pines 

 over two hundred feet long and 

 scaling several thousand 'feet are 

 left piled in an untangled heap like 

 jack-straws. The real conditions 

 cannot be described better than to 

 quote a few words from this letter. 



"In many cases they were laid in 

 great whirls, a regular tornado being 

 formed by the immense heat. I had 

 a good chance to observe one of 

 these whirls on our own fire, as the 

 fire struck the timber it would up- 

 root great trees before they were 

 badly burned." 



"The fire had great headway at 

 the start and was badly scattered 

 making it hard to get under control. 

 Many times we about had it, when a 

 wind would come up and undo all 

 our previous work." 



"With the wind that was blowing 

 ten thousand men could not have 

 stopped it. It often jumped a half 

 mile at a leap." 



The causes of this fire were the 

 great drouth, and an unusually heavy 

 wind which blew continuously for 

 four days and nights. It was this 



last unnormal condition which wa's 

 responsible for the greatest part of 

 the loss. The prevention of such 

 disasters in the future is to catch 

 the fires in their infancy. This can 

 be accomplished only by making the 

 country more accessible (by trails) 

 and having adequate patrol. 



Professor Roth spent this sum- 

 mer travelling through Europe. 

 Most of his time was divided between 

 seeing deforestation in Spain, and 

 forestation in Germany. 



Professor Mulford was engaged in 

 the study of the woodland type in 

 New Mexico and Arizona. 



Professor Hill was back this sum- 

 mer to his old district in Colorado. 

 He was occupied in some utilization 

 work, June llth. and timber sales. 



The Senior Foresters spent their 

 summer vacation as follows : 

 Whiting Alden Reconnaissance, with 



C. P. R. in British Columbia. 

 Richard H. Beerker Reconnaissance, 



Battlement National Forest. 

 C. P. Cronk Reconnaissance, Cas- 

 cade National Forest. 

 Justin K. Dwindle Reconnaissance, 



Bear Tooth National Forest. 

 Richard H. Goode Tree doctoring, 



Yale Summer School. 

 C. W. Gould Stem analysis, Nor- 

 man Whitaker Co., W. Virginia. 

 George R. Greene Surveying, map- 

 ping, estimating, with State Forest- 

 er of Ohio. 



