What the National Forests Mean to Montana 

 PROTECTION FROM FIRE 



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Fire has always been a menace to the forests of the Northwest. 

 The season of 1910, when fires in western Montana and northern 





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Fig. 15. — Rattlesnake Creek, Missoula National Forest 



Idaho burned more than $24,000,000 worth of timber and caused the 

 death of 78 people, has written into the history of this region one 

 of its most sensational chapters. The traveler over railroad or 



