In accordance with the request of the Secretary of Agriculture, this depart- 

 ment has arranged a plan of cooperation with State and National Forest officers: 

 whereby rural and star route carriers shall report forest fires discovered by them 

 along their routes to persons designated by the State and National authorities 

 to receive such intelligence. 



Cooperation with State officers will be given in the following States: Maine, 

 New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New 

 York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee, Ken- 

 tucky, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and 

 California. 



Tne national forest ollirers will be cooperated with in the following States: 

 Florida, Arkansas, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona,. 

 Utah, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California. 



The State and national authorities will inform postmasters as to whom the 

 discovery of fires should be reported, and each rural carrier should be directed 

 to cooperate to the fullest extent with such authorities in the manner agreed 

 upon, namely, that the carrier shall report a fire to the nearest State fire warden 

 or national forest officer on his route, or, if no such warden or officer lives on 

 the route, to arrange through some responsible citizen to have him notified, 

 by telephone, if possible. Star-route contractors and carriers are included in 

 the plan of cooperation and should be requested to report the discovery of fires 

 in the same manner as will be done by the rural earners. 



Postmasters in or near national forests are also directed to report fires to the 

 nearest forest officer. 



Respectfully, P. V. DE GRAW, 



Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. 



The purpose of this order is to supplement the fire patrol maintained by the Forest 

 Service, States, and private protective organizations by such additional patrol as. 

 the rural and star-route carriers of the Post Office Department are able to perform 

 in connection with their regular duties. Much efficient assistance has been rendered 

 by the employees of the Post Office Department in the past in reporting forest fires. 

 This order of the department will make such cooperation more general and definite, 

 and should be of material assistance in the problem of fire control. The duties 

 assumed by postal employees must necessarily be subordinate to their regular work 

 in handling United States mails. While postmasters are directed to report fires to 

 the nearest forest officers, the contractual relations between the post office and rural 

 and star-route carriers are such as to prohibit similar instructions to employees of 

 these classes. Their cooperation, however, which is requested in the order, should 

 in the sum total prove of valuable assistance. 



These limitations upon the cooperation of postal employees should be fully con- 

 sidered in any requests made upon them for assistance. 

 Signs, Symbols, and Colors 



The Forest Atlas legend page was prepared to accompany the Atlas Folios. These 

 folios have been issued for all Forests, but as there is still a constant demand for copies, 

 of the legend it has been issued in book form as a supplement to the Instructions 

 for Making Forest Surveys and Maps. Some new legends and symbols have been 

 added to provide for the greater scope of forest work, particularly in the Eastern 

 States. 



In accordance with the Executive order, August 10, 1906, this publication was 

 submitted to the United States Geographic Board and was approved after a few- 



