FIFTH NATIONAI, CONSERVATION CONGRESS 19 



F. H. Billard Forester, Berlin Mills Company, Berlin 



Mills, N. H. 



J. S. Holmes State Forester, Chapel Hill, N. C. 



Coert DuBois District Forester, Forest Service, San 



Francisco, Calif. 



TOPICS ASSIGNED 



1. Fire prevention by States, by the Federal Government, and by private 

 interests. 



2. Forest fire association work, with special reference to the possibility 

 of co-operation and standard practice between the various protective 

 associations. 



3. Forest fire insurance. 



One of the most hopeful developments of recent years is in the line of forest 

 fire prevention, hence the work of this sub-committee is of prime importance, 

 since without fire protection there can be no forestry. The report covers fully 

 the first topic in fire prevention by States, by the Federal Government, and by 

 private interests. The general situation, including the definite results from 

 systematic fire prevention by private associations and other organizations, com- 

 prise the main body of the report. This is followed by a detailed discussion of 

 the fire protection work being done in various States. 



"No phase of forest work has been so actively taken up or made such marked 

 progress as that of forest fire prevention during the past ten years. 



"During the past five years there has been an increase of over 3,000 per cent 

 in the area of privately owned forest land patrolled against fire ; while in addition 

 to this, 92,000,000 acres of private land has been systematically looked after 

 and an area of some 187,000,000 acres of timber land patrolled by the Forest 

 Service. 



"Forest fires in the United States, according to the most conservative 

 estimates since any records were available, have caused an average annual loss 

 of 70 human lives and the destruction of merchantable timber to the amount of 

 $25,000,000.00." 



Committee 6. 



LUMBERING 



Chairman, R. C. Bryant Professor of Lumbering, Yale University, 



New Haven, Conn. 



G. M. Cornwall Editor, The Timberman, Portland, Ore. 



J. B. White Lumberman, Kansas City, Mo. 



J. F. Clark Forest Engineer, Vancouver, B. C. 



F. A. Silcox District Forester, Missoula, Mont. 



Adam Trieschmann—Crossett Lumber Company, Crossett, Ark. 



C. S. Martin Saginaw Timber Company, Aberdeen, Wash. 



W. R. Brown Berlin Mills Company, Berlin, N. H. 



TOPICS ASSIGNED 



1. The basis of lumber costs and stumpage values. 



2. The application of scientific management to lumbering operations. 



