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and suppression is as follows:- All measures possitle 

 are taken to prevent the starting of forest fires. 

 This is done through a comhinstion of measures. In 

 the first place, as far as possible, the public is in- 

 formed of the danger from fires in the forests, and the 

 damage resulting therefrom, so that greater care will 

 he exercised in the use of fire in and about the for- 

 ests. Camp sites are planned in special relation to 

 freedom from fire ri?sk, information is promulgated 

 concerning the proper location and method of making 

 fires, in connection with information of interest to 

 those who frequent the forests. Then, too, specific 

 laws are enacted regulating the use of fire in for- 

 ested regions, as those requiring spark arresters and 

 aeji pans on railroads, prohibiting the burning of brush 

 during the fire season, leaving camp fires unexting- 

 uished, and laws providing for the punishment of those 

 who wilfully or carelessly cause fires, requiring the 

 burning of slash after logging operations have been 

 carried out, and many other regulations tending to pre- 

 vent the starting of forest fires. 



Knowing, howerer, that although a great number of 

 fires may be prevented, many are still bound to occur 

 due to the universal use of fire by man, measures are 

 taken to extinguish those which do occur. This is 

 done by maintaining a detection and suppression force 

 on the forest. Detection of fires is undertaken by 

 establishing lookout stations on mountain peaks from 



