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number of fires and the total area burned great credit is due to the field stafif 

 for the efficient manner in which the fires which did start were handled. 



CLASSIFICATION OF BURNED-OVER AREA 



The area of timber land burned over was 30,660 acres or 21.0 per cent, of 

 the total area burned, as is shown in the above table. 



Cut-over land formed 15.9 per cent, of the total area burned, and land 

 upon which young growth existed, 32.6 per cent., or a combined area of 70,814 

 acres. The seriousness of fires on these two classes of land can not be too 

 strongly emphasized, because of the effect on our future timber crop. 



Barren and grass land burned over totalled 44,543 acres or 30.5 per cent, 

 of the total area burned. 



