38 FOREST. PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION 
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On May 14th 
I was notified of 
a fire at Mc- 
Carty, on the 
northeast quar- 
ter of 5, Range 
10. This fire 
burned over ap- 
proximately ten 
or eleven acres. 
It did no mate- 
rial damage. 
The fire was 
caused by the 
carelessness of a 
cookee who built 
a fire under a 
hollow birch tree 
to boil luncheon 
for the drivers 
of the Lincoln 
Pulpwood Co. 
The fire smolder- 
ed away for two 
weeks and then 
the tree fell, at 
once setting fire 
to the dry forest. 
The Lincoln 
Pulpwood Co. 
a rushed their em- 
To this landing came spruce sawlogs, spruce 
pulp, white birch logs and other hardwoods. ployees to — 
Photo by Maine Forestry Dept. fire and had it 
all out by the 
18th. On July 
lst I was notified of a fire at McCarty Camps on the northeast 
quarter of 5, Range 10, burning about one acre. It did no dam- 
age to the forest but burned a few cords of pulp-wood. The fire 
was caused by a careless cookee not extinguishing his lunch fire. 
On August 13th the lookout man at Horse Mountain notified 
me of a fire at Hay Lake, on the northeast quarter of 6, Range 8. 
This fire was started by blueberry pickers not putting out their 
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