76 Third Annual Report of the 



IF YOU OWN A HOTEL in the mountains, your house will not 

 be patronized when the scenic beauties of the mountains around 

 you are destroyed by fire. 



IF YOU ARE A CAMPER, a single bad forest fire may destroy 

 the attractive features of your favorite camp site. 



IF YOU ARE A FISHERMAN OR HUNTER, your sport may be 

 spoiled by the burning over of the forest you visit every year. 



IF YOU ARE A LUMBERMAN, you know that one bad fire season 

 may destroy your source of raw material and force you to shut 

 down your plant. That may mean bankruptcy. 



IF YOU GO INTO THE WOODS FOR ANY PURPOSE, you want 



to PREVENT FOREST FIRES. 



IF YOU NEVER GO NEAR THE FOREST, you cannot get away 

 from the fact that wood enters into your daily life in one form or 

 another, in the house you live in or the table from which you take 

 your meals, and you should remember that FOREST FIRES MEAN 

 HIGHER LUMBER PRICES. 



There are at present 25,000,000,000 board feet of standing 

 timber in the State. In the past THE LOSS OF TIMBER DUE TO 

 FIRES AND INSECT DEPREDATIONS HAS BEEN AS MUCH AS 

 THE ANNUAL AMOUNT OF TIMBER ADDED BY GROWTH. IN 

 YEARS LIKE 1903 AND 1908 IT HAS BEEN MUCH GREATER . 



At the present rate of cutting, the standing timber in this State 

 will last only twenty-five years. 



ANOTHER FIRE" SEASON LIKE 1903 OR 1908 WILL BRING 

 THE TIME OF TIMBER FAMINE FOUR YEARS NEARER . 



Nearly all the damage done by forest fires is preventable. 

 NINETY PER CENT of all forest fires are caused by CARELESS 

 NESS. ELIMINATE CARELESSNESS and you will practically PUT 

 AN END TO FOREST FIRES. 



The pleasure that the tourist or the camper takes in the woods 

 will not be lessened by his efforts to be careful with fire and to 

 take all precautions against its escape; the lumberman will not 

 sacrifice one penny of his profits by seeing that his logging crews 

 are careful during dry weather. On the contrary, these persons 

 are working to PROTECT THE FORESTS and to PRESERVE THEM 

 for their use in the future. 



The guide is usually a careful man who will see that his camp 

 fire is thoroughly extinguished before leaving it : the cautious 



