1901 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 





when the fire can be controlled. Thus by 

 one act the ground can be made more 

 suitable for a future growth, and less 

 kely to start a fire of devastation in the 

 dry months of late summer and autumn. 

 It would take but a few fires such as 

 that of this year above Buffalo Park in 



destroyed so much valuable timber in the 

 vicinity of Eldora. It will he ., new thing 

 to prosecute with vigor am one though! to 

 have caused a forest tin". |,,n ,., 



what should he done whenever such a fire 

 occurs and responsibility can he placed 

 upon the right person. 



A FOREST. 



Platte canon to cause a perceptible dimi- 

 nution in the summer and autumn flow- 

 off the Platte, and every resident of Den- 

 ver as well as every ranchman from Platte 

 canon to Greeley, must view with appre- 

 hension any lessening, however slight, of 

 the water supply in the city mains, or in 

 the irrigation ditches of the Platte Valley. 

 The press has done and can do much to 

 bring about a better understanding of the 

 value of forests to the state. They can 

 also do a good work by insisting that the 

 forest laws be enforced. The Denver Re- 

 publican has been especially active in try- 

 ing to arouse the people of the state to a 

 true appreciation of the present state of 

 affairs. An editorial recently published in 



" The time has come when there must 

 be a determined effort to save the forests 

 of this state. Their greatest danger is 

 from fire, and the only way to prevent 

 destruction in that way is to punish witli 

 severity every man who can be shown t<> 

 have caused a forest lire, either purposely 

 or through neglect. 



" It has been suggested that the great 

 fire near Eldora was stalled by pel -on* 

 who wished to secure a permit to cut mine- 

 timbers, permission of that kind being 

 readily obtained for a fire-swepl district, 

 while the trunks of the large trees an 

 little injured, a- a mil', that the) make 

 good timbers for shafts and drifts in a mine. 



" Whether there i- am foundation 



the Republican is reproduced here because this supposition we Jo not know, bul 



it hits the nail squarely on the head: clues of that kind should be followed to 



"It is said that certain persons are the end. and no consideration shoul 



under surveillance because of their sup- show 11 any guilt) man. 



posed responsibility for the fires that have should he made of all 1 



