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Title: Canadian forestry journal
Identifier: canadianforestry15canauoft (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: Canadian Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals
Publisher: (Ottawa) : Canadian Forestry Association
Contributing Library: ROM - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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436 Canadian Forcstr)) Journal, November, 1919 the explorer to make these notes, the pilot has covered the ground in such a manner that a complete photographic mosaic has also been ob- tained. The portion of this area of value to the concern interested may then be explored on foot, and the tramp through the burnt-over and swamp eliminated. The increase in the value of this combined information, viz, aerial obser- vation, photographic mosaic, and ground re- port, over the old method of ground explora- tion can be well appreciated. Machines used solely for the purpose of fire patrol will undoubtedly prove expensive, and it is through the performing of work such as out- lined above, that fire protection work can be carried on. While in the air on other missions fires can be as effectively spotted as though ma- chines were there for that special reason. The objection is, of course, raised that this auxiliary patrol work would prove inefficient, owing to the fact that machines would only be m the air when required by the concerns operating them, but .their schedule of operations could quite readily be arranged in such a manner that the best possible surveillance of the whole area would coincide with the other work to be done. CARRYING MEN AND PUMPS. With a slight alteration in the suction pipe of the Fairbanks-Morse fire pump, any medium- sized seaplane can transport this apparatus to a lake or river near a fire in a very short space
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"She's away!" of time. Several pumps and a number of men can, in this manner, be placed on the scene very rapidly. Practice has shown that one ot these pumps is as effective against a conflagra- tion as the labors of fifty men. Whether 'planes are being operated by Forest Protective As- sociations, or other lumber interests, forest fires must be given priority over all other work, and some agreement must always exist whereby a private concern may be reimbursed for work in connection with fires their planes have been in- strumental in extinguishing, on other lands than their own.

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