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fornia Forest by way of Covelo and Lakeport. One of the two routes starting 

 from Mather Field near Sacramento was to Red Bluff, over the Tahoe and 

 Plumas and portions of the Eldorado and Lassen forests; the other, to Coop- 

 erstown, covered portions of the Eldorado and Stanislaus forests. From Fresno 

 one plane operated north to Cooperstown over the Yosemite National Park 

 and portions of the Sierra and Stanislaus forests, and another south to Bakers- 

 field over the Sequoia Forest and the southern portion of the Sierra Forest. 

 From March Field, near Riverside, one route covered the Cleveland and a 

 portion of the Angeles Forest with a landing at San Diego; the other, landing 

 at Santa Barbara, took care of the remainder of the Angeles and the Santa 

 Barbara Forest. 



The airplane work has been conducted by the Air Service branch of the 

 army, at the request of and in co-operation with the United States Forest 

 Service. The Forest Service has also continued to maintain regular fire lookout 

 stations on nearly one hundred mountain peaks in California. 



Forest Service Notes 



Law Enforcement. — Some three years ago the California District of the United 

 States Forest Service started a vigorous campaign of law enforcement. Atten- 

 tion was concentrated the first year on fire cases, and the investigation of so 

 many of the man-caused fires as it was possible to handle had such immediate 

 and gratifying results that the activities of the so-called "Arson Squad" were 

 widened, as time went on, to include property, grazing and other trespass, vio- 

 lations of the fish and game laws, etc. 



For the calendar year 1920 the Forest Service reports a total of 278 law- 

 enforcement cases. Of these 210 were for fire trespass, and of these 171 re- 

 sulted in convictions, with fines or settlements of costs and damages totaling 

 $7307.94- 



As a consequence of this activity, incendiary fires at the present rate of de- 

 crease should soon be a thing of the past in the California District. 



Air Patrol. — A total of 26 planes, 29 officers, 15 cadets, and an average of 92 

 enlisted men constituted the equipment and personnel for this work. In addi- 

 tion, 3 1 national forest officers participated in the work. During July, August, 

 and September a total of 772 fires were reported by air patrol, and of this 

 number 659 were first so reported. Detection accuracy was 79 per cent. 



Educational Exhibits. — The year 1920 marks two new departures for the Cali- 

 fornia District of the Forest Service in their educational exhibit work. 



The first was the construction (and, later, exhibition at the State Fair, the 

 Fresno District Fair, and the Southern California Fair) of a carefully planned 

 and still more carefully executed replica of a camp-scene with painted back- 

 ground, with a built-up foregroimd blending imperceptibly into it. The plan- 

 ning, execution, and exhibition were all imder the direction of Mr. Paul J. 

 Fair, formerly of the California Academy of Sciences, but now engaged by the 

 Forest Service. 



