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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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ame asany other. We cannot depend upon sentiment or charity to dothis work. A competent force of efficient, active men familiar withthe country and experienced in fire fighting must be maintained.The value of the forests to the people are so great and the benefitsto be derived so varied and important that the expense is not to beconsidered; yet the cost is a very small part of the advantages se-cured and only pennies are expended where dollars are saved.Our present fire law has attracted so much attention that thewriter was invited to explain it at a meeting of New EnglandStates forestry interests held at Mt. Washington, N. H., last Au-gust and again at the Lake States Forest Fire Conference at St.Paul, Minn., the present month. There is still much work to be done, not only in perfecting andmaintaining the organization for actual fire fighting, but in pro-tection. The people who live in our forest sections and those whouse the woods for hunting, fishing, camping, recreation and health
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Forest, Fish and Game Commission 31 must realize that they have responsibilities. They must feel thisresponsibility and be far more careful and exercise better judg-ment in starting fires; and above all, see that fires are absolutelyextinguished before leaving them. The two largest areas burnedover this year were due to these causes and were truly avoidablesimply by exercising reasonable care. At the present time there is some criticism in various parts ofour forest sections because people are not allowed the free andfull use of wild lands for hunting and fishing. In many cases theland owners do not care anything about the game but they areafraid of fires and in order to protect their property it is necessaryto prohibit persons going upon it. During the year several actions have been commenced, convic-tions secured and fines enforced for setting fires to clear land with-out permits and during the prohibited season. In addition oneconviction was secured in case of setting fires to wild

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