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information as to the best camping, fishing and hunting grounds their support 

 is usually secured and many people taking their vacations in the mountains return 

 with a high regard and respect for the work being performed by the fire 

 patrolmen. 



In case of emergency and as a strict business proposition a patrolman should 

 know every resident in his territory, and while getting acquainted he can carry 

 the gospel of fire prevention. 



Publicity or educational work as carried on through circulation of literature 

 has proven of wonderful benefit. In any section where forest fire associations, 

 the Federal Government, or the States are maintaining patrols, every road and 

 trail is thoroughly posted with fire-warning notices. 



BVom using only notices quoting the laws, the custom has now grown 

 up of using posters containing a short catch sentence regarding fire hazard, 

 pictorial posters, popular appeals to campers and hunters, and in fact, any kind 

 of notices which will catch the eye and be read. It has been generally found that 

 to keep people reading fire-warning notices, at least, some new ones should be 

 gotten out each year. 



Pamphlets distributed among school children calling attention to the value 

 of the forest crop are very valuable from an educational standpoint. If the 

 younger generation can be brought up with the need for forestry and forest 

 protection thoroughly implanted in their minds, protection in the future will 

 be made infinitely easier than it is today. Similarly printed material made to 

 appeal to the general public is now in many sections widely distributed just before 

 the fire season. Such literature is found in hotels, farm houses, court houses, 

 garages, etc. 



Fire-warning notices in telephone books, railroad folders, county fair bulle- 

 tins, commercial club literature and places of this kind have large circulation 

 and probably more efifect than most people realize. 



One very efifective means of calling attention to the need for care with fire 

 is to have rangers distribute safety matches, on the boxes of which is a request 

 that the recipient use every precaution to see that no fires start. 



The press has always been most active in helping fire prevention by lending 

 its pages to any matters which have news value. Some of the associations make 

 it a point to send to all papers in their territory weekly or periodic bulletins on 

 the fire situation, what is being done along protection lines, and matters of this 

 nature. 



Several years ago the Forest Service interested the clergy of Oregon and 

 Washington in protection work, and many sermons were preached on the benefits 

 from protecting a valuable resource against needless destruction. The effect of 

 bringing attention to the matter, through such a medium was very far reaching. 



Numerous other ways of bringing the importance of protection before the 

 public might be mentioned such as motion picture films of fire fighting, special 

 magazine articles describing the work of State, Federal and private protection 

 agencies, lectures before granges and educators, the use of stickers on envelopes, 

 and stamps on pay checks. It is, however, sufficient to say that in carrying on 



