C. aniulidn Foicslii/ Journal, Srplcnihcr, 11)1/ 



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Fighting Fires in the Pacific States 



An interesting report on the ser- 

 ious fire conditions on the Pacific 

 Coast this year was issued by the 

 United States Forest Service during 

 August: — 



"With the most serious lire situa- 

 tion in a number of years threatening 

 milhons of feet of western timber, 

 it has been necessary for the Forest 

 Service to suspend some of its opera- 

 tions in order to concentrate all avail- 

 able forces in fighting the forest fires. 



"Reports received from the North- 

 west indicate that the situation is 

 more dangerous than at any time 

 this year. In Montana and northern 

 Idaho two thousand men are fighting 

 the flames under the direction of the 

 Forest rangers. In these two States 

 alone approximately 8170,000 has 

 already been spent this season, and 

 that figure is increasing bv approxi- 

 mately $15,000 a day.^ 



"In Oregon and Washington valu- 

 able timber intended to furnish air- 

 plane stock for the fighting forces 

 of the United States and its allies 

 is being threatened by the flames. 

 Logging operations are so badly inter- 

 fered with that several large mills 

 now supplying the Government with 

 this class of material may be forced 

 to discontinue operations. Num- 

 erous fires are reported as the result 

 of incendiarism. 



"The reports state that in many 

 places little or no rain has fallen for 

 weeks. The forests are now so dry 

 that any fire which occurs is apt to 

 become a dangerous conflagration, 

 while high winds make it difTicult 

 to control even the smallest blaze. 

 With such conditions, it is pointed 

 out, there is need to keep all persons 

 out of the woods. In order to accom- 

 plish this the Governor of Oregon 

 has postponed the opening of the 



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