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Author(s): H. S. Graves
Publication Date: 1910

The first measure necessary for the successful practice of forestry is protection from forest fires. As long as there is any considerable risk from fire, forest owners have little incentive to make provision for natural reproduction, to plant trees, to make improvement cuttings, or to do other work looking to continued forest production. In many localities great progress has lately been made in forest protection. Organized fire protection has been established in the National Forests and in most of the state forest reservations. A number of States have begun to develop systematic fire protection on private lands through the organization of state fire wardens. In some instances private owners have formed cooperative associations for fire and employ a regular force of rangers for patrol during the fire season. The most conspicuous and successful associations are those formed by certain lumber companies in Idaho and Washington. Throughout the country there are here and there instances of serious effort toward thorough fire protection by individual private owners. In spite of all that has been done, however, the fact remains that most of the forests of the country, particularly those privately owned, are inadequately protected from fire. It is probable that in fully 75 per cent of the private forests there is no attempt whatever at systematic protection.

Citation: Graves, H. S. 1910. Protection of forests from fire. Bulletin No. 82. Washington, D.C., USDA Forest Service.

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Topics:
Climate    Economics    Fire Behavior    Fire Ecology    Fire Effects    Fire Prevention    Fuels    Logistics    Prescribed Fire    Safety
Regions:
Keywords:
  • Acer
  • arthropods
  • backfires
  • broadcast burning
  • brush
  • coniferous forests
  • crown fires
  • cutting
  • fire equipment
  • fire injuries (plants)
  • fire intensity
  • fire management
  • fire protection
  • fire size
  • firebreaks
  • firefighting personnel
  • flammability
  • foliage
  • grass fires
  • ground fires
  • human caused fires
  • Idaho
  • ignition
  • insects
  • lightning caused fires
  • litter
  • logging
  • national forests
  • New England
  • private lands
  • Quercus rubra
  • reproduction
  • seedlings
  • slash
  • surface fires
  • topography
  • trees
  • US Forest Service
  • Washington
  • wildfires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 13346Location Status: In-fileCall Number: A133:82 DDWAbstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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