FOREWORD xvii 
fire protection Ps 
for organized ’ 
lands outside 
the District by 
the erection of 
several lookout 
stations where 
the need is 
greatest. As 
Maine Forestry 
District money 
could not be 
used for these 
purposes out- 
side the limits 
of the District, 
finances for 
these projects 
were secured 
from federal al- 
lotment for 
State aid, from 
special forestry 
funds and from 
private sub- 
scription. 
In order to Showing how fire destroys young growth and 
maintain the undersized timber, making the land a waste for 
efficiency of our years. . - Photo by Maine Forestry Dept. 
system of fire 
protection within the Maine Forestry District I already have made 
a recommendation for a change in the Forestry District Law which 
will allow this Department to offer a rate of compensation for em- 
ployees that will average well with the wage offered in other fields 
of labor. I feel that this suggestion must meet with the approval 
of the owners whose lands are incorporated in the District, for it 
would seem that they will not deny these men, who are virtually 
their employees and working for the protection of their property, 
a wage at least equal to what men are receiving in the lumber 
camps. Neither do I anticipate from the land owners in the Dis- 
trict any opposition to a proposal that the Maine Forestry District 
tax be increased another half mill. The funds now placed at the 
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