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Identifier: annualreport16190910newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Fire in the Vicinity of Cold River, Hamilton County, July, 1910.
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Photo by R. E. Gooding. Lumber Slash Adjacent to the Railroad of the Brooklyn Cooperage Company. Franklin County. Forest, Fish and Game Commission 19 ply of water and in this case our men worked at the greatestdisadvantage. The danger from fire increased in some sections and decreasedin others from time to time throughout the summer, dependingupon the rainfall which, as a rule, was generally local. Thedrought later in the season was greater in the southern part ofthe State than in the northern and during the last ten days ofOctober the situation in the Catskills, on account of the droughtand the hunting season, caused much anxiety, but was kept inexcellent control, only one large fire occurring at that time. When we think of the large territory each man had to cover,that there were nearly three hundred fires and that only five ofthem burned over any considerable area, it indicates a very credit-able efficiency in the force. The fire patrol force, consisting of the four superintendents

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