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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



TO STOP FOREST FIRES 



"W E\V YORK STATES forest fire pro- 

 tection service will be enlarged and 

 sttcngthencd by an increase in the funds 

 allotted to the state by the federal gov- 

 ernment. New fire-fighting apparatus of 

 thi latest and most effective type will be 

 purchased and additional fire districts will 

 be organized, covering forested portions 

 of the state that heretofore have not been 

 included in the fire towns. Conservation 

 Commissioner Ellis J. Staley has received 

 from the United States Forest Service 

 notice of its approval of the plan of co- 

 operation between the state and federal 

 authorities, under which the national gov- 

 ernment adds $22,050 to the money ap- 

 propriated by the state for fire protec- 

 tion work. Under the new plan of co- 

 operation, which was worked out at a 

 conference between Clifford R. Pettis, 

 Superintendent of State Forests, and 

 Louis S. Murphy, acting Chief of the 

 Eastern Division of the Forest Service, 

 the federal government will purchase four 

 foiest fire pumps and turn them over to 

 the Conservation Commission and pro- 

 vide for the establishment of new fire dis- 

 tricts in the eastern, southern and south' 

 wciitcrn portions of the state. 



"Take No Chance* 

 With Camp Fires 

 Put Them Otit." 



FIRESETTER CAUGHT BY AID OF 

 TELESCOPE 

 In July, 1921, Alonzo E. Dole, a profes- 

 sional land locator operating in the Siuslaw 

 country for years was convicted in the 

 United States District Court at Portland, 

 Oregon, on the charge of wilfully setting 

 forest fires on the Siuslaw National Forest. 

 He was sentenced to four months in the 

 Multnomah County jail, and his applica- 

 tion for a new trial was denied. 



Dole had long been suspected by officers 

 of the Forest Service of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture of wilfully set- 

 ting fires on the Siuslaw National Forest, 

 but owing to the sparse settlement of the 

 great forest area and consequent lack of 

 witnesses, and the further fact that by long 

 practice he had mastered the trick of flip- 

 ping a burning match in the brush along 

 a road or trail, even on horseback, efforts 

 to obtain evidence against him were long 

 unsuccessful. 



The circumstances in connection with 

 Dole's arrest and conviction were somewhat 

 unusual. As shown by the evidence, one 

 of the witnesses was trying out a new tele- 

 scope by watching occasional passers-by on 

 a road a few hundred yards away. While 

 doing, he saw Dole, who was riding by on 

 horseback, strike matches and flip them, 

 while burning, into the dry ferns and brush 

 along :he roadside, thus starting fires. 



VOLUNTARY AIR FIRE-PATROL 

 WORK 



An airplane patrol in the Pikes Peak re- 

 gion is being carried on without cost to the 

 Forest Service of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, says the Weekly 

 Bulletin. A Colorado aircraft company 

 has an agreement which calls for constant 

 lookout for fires during regular trips, and 

 special trips to locate smoke are being made 

 at the request of the Forest Service. The 

 pilots, who are appointed special unpaid fire 

 guards, are provided with maps and tele- 

 phone directories of forest officers, and the 

 airplanes bear on their wings, in neat let- 

 ters, "Official Forest Service Patrol." 



This patrol may cost the aircraft com- 

 pany a good deal, if many special flights 

 are necessary. The company, however, does 

 not expect to charge the expense to phil- 

 anthropy; it believes that it can render this 

 public service gratutiously and at the same 

 time its planes will be known as the ones 

 which do this special fire patrol work. 

 There is no Army air field anywhere near 

 this district with which the Forest Service 

 can cooperate, as on the Pacific coast, for 

 forest fire patrol, so it is of great advan- 

 tage to the service to have this patrolling 

 done voluntarily. 



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