1901 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



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the valleys were well covered with oak 

 trees, and the streams flowed continuously 

 above ground. Until recent years sheep- 

 raising was the chief industry. They 

 were herded in the mountains without re- 

 straint, and, as is known to all observers, 

 destruction and devastation are the result 

 of sheep-grazing in our mountains, espe- 



tains which has not been burned over. 

 There are many other causes of fire, but 

 they are due to the carelessness and indiffer- 

 ence of man in nearly every case. Laws 

 inflicting a heavy fine and punishment d<> 

 not check the destruction perceptibly. In 

 spite of the fact that each year main tires 

 have occurred in these mountains, the 



FIG. I. YEELOW PINE FOREST IN SAN BERNARDINO FOREST 

 RESERVE, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 



,, -j pw , while the aggregate of fines that have been imposed 



daily in and regions. F01 a while tne a SS"=g resDonsible for their 



sheep men annually burned their ranges, on the n idmdu. 



to make accessible new areas, until now origin ,s n 1 u n n 



there is but a small portion of these moun- century, Geiman) beca. 



