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that seventy jjer cent, producing" 

 timber of the most vakiable species 

 and producing not for a few years 

 but for generations to come. 



The first and mightiest enemy of the 

 Productive Forest is Fire. The For- 

 est Service does not pretend that even 

 the l)est organizations, the highest 

 lookout towers, the most modern 

 machinery are invariably capable of 

 combating forest fires. "^ The patrol- 

 man's first duty is to enlist the good 

 will and concern of all in his neigh- 

 Ijorhood towards the prevention of 

 fires. The moment we think of 

 forest protection as community busi- 

 ness, that moment the ranger's 

 efficiency multiplies a thousand per 

 cent. It is the community, the mer- 

 chant, farmer, fisherman, mill em- 

 ployee, railroadmen, who pay the 

 bill for forest fires, not the "'Govern- 

 ment" or the "lumberman" who are 

 merely temnorary administrators or 

 agents in utilizing the forest resources. 

 Where dozens of New Brunswick 

 towns rest their foundations upon 

 luniber mills and puln mills, it is 

 plain that the destruction of forests 

 directly involves the destruction of 

 those townis. Where thousands of 

 New Brunswick workmen look for 

 their pay envelopes to a lumber com- 

 pany, is it unreasonable to expect 

 that each workman will protect the 

 timber that protects his job? Since 

 numerous families of settlers must 

 pay the tragic toll of sweeping forest 

 fires (Ontario lost 223 people in the 

 1916 holocaust) has not the ranger a 

 right to expect the settler to take 

 every precaution in burning his land 

 or otherwise in the use of fire? No 

 one has yet invented a way to cut 

 the cord between forest fires and 

 grave yards. 



A FOREST DESTROYER. 



The camper! the fisherman! 

 What right has either man to destroy 

 in a few hours by a tossed-awa>' 

 cigarette or match or unextinguished 

 camp (ire the woods to which he 

 owes his day's sport? And yet, 

 three of the worst fires in New 

 Brunswick this year were the work 

 of campers who defied the rights of 

 their fellow men and played false 



to all decent stjandards of citizenship. 



Forest fires kill the lumber mills 

 and the lumber towns. 



Forest fires cut" down NewBruns- 

 wick's big earnings from visiting 

 hunters and fishermen. 



Forest fires postpone any income 

 from a tim])cr area 'for seventy-five 

 years, and ofteih for all time. 



Forest fires steal from the provin- 

 cial revenues of half-a-million dollars 

 supplied annually by operations in 

 the forest. 



Forest fires imperil the lives of 

 thousands of settlers. 



Poorest fires rob all railways in 

 New Brunswick of a chief commodity 

 in freight traffic. 



This is all on the debit side of 

 forest fires. Can you think of any- 

 thing on the credit side? 



ARE YOU INCLUDED HERE? 



Camper! Fisherman! Hunter! 

 Do you build your camp fire on 

 rocks, gravel or earth where it is safe? 

 Do you build the fire small so that it 

 cooks best? When you are through 

 with your cooking, do you souse the 



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