Effective fire protection is achieved only through 

 a joint undertaking between the public and private 

 agencies in which all lands, regardless of ownership, 

 are brought under an organized system. Such a 

 system requires : 



1. An effective service for preventing forest fires 

 and detecting and suppressing those which may be 

 started. Such a service already exists in a number 

 of States. 



2. Improvements needed for the prompt detection 

 and suppression of fires. These include roads, trails, 

 lookout stations, properly located stations for rangers, 

 bases for airplanes when these are used, and so on. 



3. Measures to reduce the inflammability of the 

 forests. These may consist of lopping the tops, as is 

 practiced in parts of the East; or burning the brush 

 in piles as conducted in many pine stands on the Na- 

 tional Forests; or burning over at the proper season 

 cleared areas, protected by fire lines, as in heavy 

 Douglas fir stands ; or in felling dead snags, as is 

 required in many National Forest timber sales ; and 

 in other measures. In some places fire lines may be 

 des'irable, as practiced in southern California; or 

 carefully controlled burning at the proper season of 

 strips and selected areas, as is practical in certain 

 open pine forests. Uncontrolled light burning should 

 be prohibited everywhere. 



4. A vigorous campaign of education of the public 

 regarding the danger of forest fires and the need 

 of cooperation on the part of every user of the woods. 



5. A systematic campaign of law enforcement, in 

 which all citizens should be asked to cooperate, to 



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