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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



SAVE IDAHO FOREST FIRES! 



WARNING 



BY BEING CAREFUL IN THE USE OF FIRE 



CT4QFQT I DANGER TO LIVES AND HOMES OF SETTLERS 

 rV-TlLO / LABOR TURNED AWAY EMPTY-HANDED 

 FIRES REDUCED MARKET FOR OUR CROPS 



....... \ HEAVTER TAXES ON OTHER PROPERTY 



MEAN ' STREAM FLOW DISTURBED 



For every dollar loet 

 by timber owners. 



Community Loses 1 



WAGES AND MARKET FOR SUPPLIES 



, Five times i 

 much in 



GOOD CITIZENSHIP FORBIDS 

 THE LAW PUNISHES 



Tossing' away bur nin g matches or tobacco; 

 Building camp fires in leaves, rotten wood or against logs, 

 where they may spread or be impossible to extinguish; 

 Leaving any camp fire before it is out; 

 Burning brush or slashings in dry season without permit; 

 Using spark-emitting engines in the dry season; 

 Refusing to fight fire when summoned by a fire warden. 



CARE WITH SMALL FIRES, BY PREVENTING LARGE 

 ONES, MEANS PROSPERITY INSURANCE 



Violation of these rules may cause iniury and distress beyond calcu- 

 lation. Help Enforce Theml Put out any fire you find if you can. If you 

 cannot, notify a flre warden, some other public officer or the land owner 



For the law send to 



STATE LAND COMMISSIONER 



BOISE. IDAHO 



It is Unlawful and Punishable by Fine and 

 Imprisonment 



FirstTo set and leave any fire that may spread to adjacent 

 timber or other property. 



SecondTo burn slashings, choppings, and the like, from 

 June 1st to October 1st, without a permit issued by a Fire 

 Warden or Forest Ranger. 



Third To operate spark-emitting locomotives, engines or 

 boilers without using safe and effective spark arresters. 



Fourth To deface, destroy, or remove this notice. 



Campers, hunters, fishermen and others are warned against 

 building campfires in moss, rotten wood or against old logs, 

 where the fire may smoulder and finally burst into flame and 

 spread to adjoining timber or other property. Never leave 

 your fire until you are sure it is out. 



Help Protect the Forests from Fire 



We ask your co-operation and assistance in protecting 

 timber and other property from fire. Use the same care with 

 fire in forest regions that you would use in your own home or 

 in a city. Put out a fire if you can. If you cannot, notify the 

 nearest Fire Warden or Ranger. 



State Board of Forest Commissioners 



E. W.FERRIS 



STATE FORESTER AND FIRE WARDEN 



ROOM FOR 5,000,000 SHADE TREES 



THE New York State College of 

 Forestry at Syracuse University 

 is urging the municipalities of 

 the State to take up public 

 control of street tree planting and 

 preservation in the same manner as 

 public control is exercised over other 

 street improvements. During the past 

 year the College has made investigation 

 of the shade trees in many cities and 

 towns of the State including New 

 York city, Syracuse, Binghamton, Am- 

 sterdam, Mount Vernon, Newburgh 

 and Olean. It has been found that 

 thousands of shade trees are dying 

 along the streets of the cities due to 



past mistake in selection of varieties 

 and in spacing the trees at the time of 

 planting, which has forced the trees to 

 grow with weakened vitality, inviting 

 decay by tree diseases and by the attacks 

 of insect pests. There is a great need 

 for systematic work in planting trees 

 to replace those that have failed to fill 

 in the many unplanted areas along city 

 streets. It has been estimated that 

 within the cities of the State there are 

 20,000 miles of streets capable of 

 sustaining a growth of 5,000,000 shade 

 trees which can be made worth 

 $100,000,000 in increased property 

 value. 



Pine Used by Box Industry. 



White pine and yellow pine are the woods most used for boxes, and each contributes more 

 than a billion feet to the box industry annually. 



British Columbia's Timber Protection. 



The annual cut of British Columbia timber is approximately two billion feet. There are 

 420 mills and 790 logging camps in the province, employing about 60,000 men. 



