danger from stock grazing on areas frilled and poison- 

 ed, though it would be desirable to keep all stock off 

 for three or four weeks, when all possible chance of 

 danger would have disappeared. 



HOW TO PREVENT DANGEROUS 

 FIRES 



By JOS. A. KITTS 



FOREST fires in the United States destroy, year by 

 year, more than the forest yield. It is well known 

 to engineers and foresters that our forest resources are 

 so limited that we must augment normal reproduction 

 by planting, in order to insure a future supply. The 

 situation is now so critical that the fire problem is one 

 to which all should give earnest thought and attention 

 until a solution has been proven, accepted and put into 

 practice throughout the United States. 



For the past twenty-eight years I have practiced, on 

 my home lands in California, a method of prevention 

 of destructive forest fires learned from the Sierra Ne- 

 vada Indians. I have found this method successful in 

 my second growth timber and also in prime forests 

 where the accumulation of litter (which is the cause of 

 destructive fires) was in considerable proportion. This 

 method has been highly satisfactory from every point 

 of view and is here offered as a solution of the fire pro- 

 blem in the coniferous forests. 



The method consists in the burning of the forest lit- 

 ter, by means of surface fires, during and at the end of 



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