FIRE LOOKOUTS
ARE SAVING
MUCH TIMBER
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DENVER, July 22 (by Associated ,
Press).—Hundreds of forest rangers ,
in the seventeen national forests of .
Colorado, looking for smoke, have j
saved the government millions of dol
lars, prevented the loss of hundreds
of lives and conserved wild game and
birds in countless thousands by their
ceaseless vigilance.
“Look for the smoke” is the order
which has gone forth to the supervis
ors of the forests and transmitted from
them to the lookouts at the tops of
the highest peaks and the rangers who
police the forests during the summer
months to quench incipient blazes and
to warn the 800,000 annual tourists and
others against carelessness in building
camp fires.
It is a ceaseless task, guarding the
millions of dollars in timber of Uncle
Sam’s national playgrounds. Upon the
forests the farmer depends for his
water supply, the city depends for its
drinking water and the hunter depends
for his wild game. The forests mean
rain and snow which nourish crops in
the plains many miles away, and the
national forest rangers are guarding
this water supply with a watchfulness
that never ceases.
Night and day the forest lookout sits
in his cage at the top of the high
mountain peak, ceaselessly scanning
timber lands below for any sign of
smoke. It is a monotonous existence,
nerve-racking in its depressing lone
liness, but the lookout knows that mil
lions of dollars in timber, crops and
unnumbered lives depend upon his
ceaseless vigilance.
When the lookout detects signs of;
smoke he ascertains the exact loca- j
tion of the blaze through an instru-1
ment known as the “fire finder.” He !
then telephones to the forest super
visor and forest rangers, and within
a few minutes the guardians of the for
est are on the scene. Throughout the
forests is a network of telephone wires
and telephones which campers may
use in notifying the forest service of I
fires, and a large sum has been ex
pended in an effort to educate the
summer tourist to assist the govern
ment in preserving the national sum- .
mer playground of the motorist and
camper.
Occasionally a fire starts from an
engine spark, lightning, or from log
ging camps, but special precautions
are taken to prevent conflagrations
from these sources, and the next great
est danger, that from careless camp
ers and tourists, is being eliminated as
rapidly as possible by education.
Already the efforts of the forest
service in preventing fires has shown
results in decreasing damage, although
in dry years the number of fires often
is alarming. Better means of commu
lication and transportation have en
abled the service to cope with the sit
lation by getting a large force of fire
ighters on the scene soon after the
daze starts, and though the fires may
be numerous, the loss is greatly re- “
duced, for seldom does a fire get be
yond control.
Next year the forest service expects
to have an airplane patrol of the for
ests on the eastern slope of Colorado,
which should mean a greater degree
of safety for the timber lands.
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