GOVERNMENT FOREST WORK oD 
AIR PATROL IN FOREST PROTECTION 
For several years airplanes have been used to aid 
in fire control in Oregon, Washington, northern Idaho, 
western Montana, and in California, and more fre- 
cently in Minnesota and Arkansas. When fires get 
large a reconnaissance from the air is a very useful 
method of obtaining desired information. Not only 
have planes been used to observe a going fire and for 
detection of fires immediately following a lightning 
storm but also for patrolling areas during periods 
when heavy smoke blankets obscure the vision of 
the ground lookcuts and for transporting materials 
and food to crews working on actual fire lines. Air- 
planes have also been used in map making on some of 
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HOW MR. EVERYMAN CAN HELP 
The cooperation of all forest users is earnestly 
sought in the work of preventing and controlling fire 
by exercising every care not to cause fires and by in- 
forming the nearest forest supervisor or ranger of any 
fire which may be discovered. 
By the observance of the following simple rules for 
the handling of fire in the mountains users of the 
forests will very materially assist in their protection: 
1. Matches.—Be sure your match is out. Break 
it in two before you throw it away. 
2. Tobacco.—Be sure that pipe ashes and cigar or 
cigarette stubs are dead before throwing them away. 
Never throw them into brush, leaves, or needles. 
3. Making camp.—Before building a fire scrape 
away all inflammable material from a spot 5 feet in 
diameter. Dig a hole in the center and in it build 
your camp fire. Keep your fire small. Never build it 
against trees or logs or near brush. 
4. Breaking camp.—Never break camp until your 
fire is out—dead out. 
