and tho timber la ruite dry even on the outside, despite 

 the snow, the moiettre from which seems to penetrate very 

 little durin:? oold weather. The first Fall storms are 

 apt to be sleety if not straight rain and it is hard to 

 jet tho fire to ta'.io hold at suoh times. 



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Dog Teems for Winter Work 



. H. Babbitt 



Now that tho Forest Service ovms three power 

 launches and the prospects of securing automobiles for fire 

 fightin-7 lurposes are brightening, it seens to be e favorable 

 time to" bring to attention a very rifferent mocns of trans- 

 portation thct should be of groat value to tho Service at a 

 time and place when other means are entirely abandoned. The 

 plaoo is tho snow belt <?uring the \7inter end the rnecns of 

 transportation, the dog team, 



It is usually accepted the* -1th the first snows 

 the field rork practically ceases ercopt in a fovr favorable 

 situctione, until the snor if off in the Spring, rhen all 

 of the work coews with n rueh end mcny things must be done 

 in haste with often little cere. 3^ tho use of do^ teems 

 to transport supplies, all of tho telephone lines could bo 

 repaired during iierch and April and short linee could also bo 

 constructed under very favorable circumstances. One rots an 

 idee, of the snow conditions and has no underbrush to contend 

 vrith. It will bo found that cutting obstructing limbs is 

 iuuch eesior from the snow or from a short ladder than from a 

 Irng lade or. 



There vill be little inclination torerds pro- 

 longing the ^orfe unduly in the crisp mountain air. Activity 

 is essential tr* bodily comfort and the v/->rk goes forward 

 rapidly as against that c'racrgincr feeling of the first warm 

 days of Spring. Ot'aer lines of rork can be performed if 

 camps can be established at convenient points In the snow 

 country. Cruising timber haff ~beon found successful and sur- 

 vey lines ~ere traced after the heavy snows of the V.'intor 

 1910-11, with great success. 



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