374 R]5PORT OF' THB FORESTRY COMMITTEE 



Here is the necessity for protection of timber at all points, which can be 

 accomplished with a greater degree of efficiency and more economically by 

 co-operation. There is no such thing as ample protection unless every man 

 is protected. You have to put out your neighbor's fires to protect your own 

 timber. Community co-operation is essential to anything like universal fire 

 protection." 



A. W. Laird, Potlatch, Idaho. 

 President, Northern Idaho Forestry Association. 



"In Idaho the private timber owners, the State administration, and the 

 people at large believe in the protection of their forests from fire, and to-day 

 there is probably no locality in the world— not even excepting Germany— 

 where this branch of conservation is so efficiently handled as in the timbered 

 section of northern Idaho, covered by our four local fire associations. 



To state this a little differently, let me say that, at an operating cost of 

 $47,000, we protected $45,000,000 worth of property from fire, with an out- 

 right loss of $300 worth of timber and damage in the fire-killed timber of 

 $1,400. A large proportion of the latter will be saved by cutting within a 

 year or two." 



C. W. JuNGBERG, Helena, Montana. 

 State Forester of Montana. 



"The above facts fully demonstrate that an effective fire patrol, such as 

 was maintained by our association this season, will fully repay us, and is 

 cheap insurance on timber. Speaking for the State of Montana, of State and 

 school lands, I fully realize the good that has been accomplished by this 

 association. Our assessment was only $343.61 on 67,731 acres of land, 

 representing a value of $1,340,000. Rather cheap insurance, is it not? While 

 this association is only in its infancy, yet it is bound to grow if proper interest 

 is taken by those who have most at stake." 



A: P. Sprague, Portland, Oregon, 

 When President, Oregon Forest Fire Association. 



"What we want here in Oregon is a thorough patrol of all the timber 

 lands, but we do not need a federal, a State, and a private patrolman, or 

 several private patrolmen, in the employ of different companies, going over 

 the same territory. To do away with this condition, which exists in some 

 sections, is one of our tasks before another fire season arrives. Probably the 

 most simple solution of the matter is the formation of co-operative county or 

 district patrol associations, these undei" the management of timber owners 

 and co-operating with the State and Federal Government in such a manner 

 as to prevent overlapping of territory and consequent duplication of effort. 

 Such associations, where they have been tried in the State, have shown excel- 

 lent results ; have decreased the cost of patrol while increasing its efficiency ; 

 have made for better public sentiment and secured a greater measure of con- 

 sideration from county and State officials. There are numerous practical 

 reasons why live local organizations are best equipped for the work; first 

 amongst them I should place the stimulation of greater public interest, and a 

 more thorough detail knowledge of local conditions and the most plausible 

 method of bringing the work to the notice of the greatest number." 



