But mention of Gifford Pinchot 
brought memories of this very Penn¬ 
sylvania section. I remembered having 
I read the stories. Always, between the 
lines, there was indellibly stencilled the 
bravery of Pinchot in his efforts to 
protect nature and to conserve trees. 
Yes, that was it—the trees, the forests. 
| His heart had gone out to them. Every 
terrible forest fire was a flaming red 
affront to his intelligence. Communi¬ 
ties must be taught to LOVE trees; 
then they would be more CAREFUL 
of them. 
And it was just outside of this very 
village of Milford that Gifford Pinchot 
had his large country estate where he 
put into practice all that be believed 
and preached. Pasted on the wall of 
the little mountain farmhouse, that 
same night, I read a clipping from the 
Milford Dispatch: 
“The 1922 reports of District Forester 
R. W. Stadden shows that a total of 
|; forty-four fires razed the woods and 
areas of Pike county last year. The 44 
! fires burnt over a total of 20,233.5 
acres. It cost the state $6,548.76 to 
extinguish these fires. The estimated 
damage to property as a result of these 
fires was placed at $24,400. The 166 
fires in the Delaware district in 1922 
burned over a total of 51,440.35 acres. 
It took a total of $16,324.90 out of the 
coffers of the state to extinguish the 
fires in this one district. Woodlanc 
and forest owners sustained property 
damage to the extent of $97,079.30, 
made to seem all the more huge when 
it is considered practically every one 
of the 166 fires started because of HU¬ 
MAN FAILINGS.” 
And beneath this humble clipping 1 , 
some angry, incensed hand hac 
scrawled, in pencil, the following: 
“D-n the Hunters—the fisher¬ 
men . . . the sportsmen from the 
city.” 
I recalled, with a sudden feeling of 
revulsion, how Lem Morris, after a 
too-frequent nibble at his hip pocket, 
was prone to throw lighted matches 
behind him, as he picked his way 
through the woodlands. How often I 
had gone back and stamped out the 
first, tiny spark of a great conflagra¬ 
tion that might have consumed trees 
which had been a lifetime in the rear¬ 
ing! 
This was “Pinchot country” and 1 
lad not thought of it before. The Sun- 
lay fishin’ was incidental. The very 
soil was consecrated to love of Nature, 
it was soil which Sonnyboy might well 
read with respect and profit. There 
were sound lessons for him in these 
I irude hills. 
For a part of my plan was to see 
hat Sonnyboy did more than learn to 
)e a sportsman. He must look upon 
he Outdoors as a playground, bor- 
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