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Title: What to do for Uncle Sam; a first book of citizenship
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin, 1875-1961
Subjects: Citizenship
Publisher: Chicago, A. Flanagan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Indian felt about wantingto keep a tree. He knew how the Colonist, andall the other Americans after him, had felt aboutcutting a tree down and using it. He knew, too,that the Indian and the American settler wereeach right in a certain way. So Uncle Sam tookover one hundred sixty million acres of trees andlaid out our national forests and parks. He takescare of these just as a farmer takes care of avery valuable crop. Only certain trees may becut, and new ones are being set out constantlyto take the places of those that are cut down.Several thousand men help Uncle Sam in lookingafter these National forests. It is their duty topatrol them, watching for forest fires, and keep-ing the trees free from pests or disease. Sometimes the life of one of Uncle Sams foresters is as exciting as any adventure story aboy or girl ever read. If you go to the countryin the summer where there are high wooded hillsor mountains all around, you may see a tiny speckfar up on the peak of one. There is no road
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Courtesy, American Museum of Natural History, N. Y.SCENE IN A FOREST RESERVE, CALIFORNIA 166 WHAT TO DO FOR UNCLE SAM that you can see leading to it. A narrow pathgoes up, but one could easily lose it, and thereare bears on the way, the farmers tell you. Thatspeck on the peak of the mountain is a fire tower:A state forester stays in it during the summer,shut away from the life of the world, watchingfor forest fires. He has a wireless apparatus tocall help if he needs it, but it is an even morelonely life than that of the light-house keeper. When Uncle Sam began to preserve his trees,he found that the forest streams and the fish werein need of help, too. Fish that were too smallwere being caught. Certain kinds of fish weredying out entirely because their streams werebeing used for water power, and they had noplace to lay their eggs and hatch their young.To save our fish, seasons, called closed seasons,have been set apart when no fish may be caughtin certain waters. They must be left qu

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