PROTECTION 131 



the alert for the detection and apprehension of 

 tampers for leaving fires unextinguished and in- 

 cendiaries for starting fires willfully. These care- 

 less individuals are arrested by them without war- 

 rant, efther under the Federal laws, if the fire oc- 

 curred on National Forest lands, or under the State 

 law, if it occurred outside of government lands. 



Educational measures are for the purpose of edu- 

 cating both the local forest-using public and the 

 general public who may travel through the Forests 

 in the careful use of fires in the forests. Forest 

 :>fficers, especially Rangers, come into personal 

 touch with local residents and users, that is, the 

 ranchers, stockmen, business men, loggers, campers, 

 bunters, fishermen and others. Such people are 

 rften reminded by personal appeals by the Forest 

 sfficers. Most of them have learned by this time, 

 because of having been called upon to help fight 

 fires at one time or another, and having gotten a 

 taste of the result of other people's carelessness. 

 Many written appeals are also sent out by the Su- 

 pervisor and are slipped into the envelopes when 

 grazing permits and other official documents are 

 mailed. One of these written appeals, and prob- 



