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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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Canadian Forestry Journal, November, 1919 441
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TlliS THING IS THh: I-'UK Tu GuOD BUSINESS: â A damaging forest fire swept across the slope shown in the photograph. Soil washing quickly followed. This is usually the case on steep slopes where the soil is loose. As a result of one bad forest fire on a British Columbia slope, all the water that formerly took six weeks to drain off into the rivers now comes out in about two or three days. A lumber company uses the stream in question to float its logs. It used to take everything out in one year's drive. Now the water conditions demand a three years' drive. That is one way by whicii the timber consumer pays the increased costs due to one forest fire. AIRPLANES IN WESTERN FORESTS Portland, Ore. The expense of operating airplanes for forest fire patrol has so far been borne by the Air Service of the United States Army. During its experimental stage this can continue, but the success of the patrol fore- shadows the time soon when the cost of the service must be paid for pro rata by the owners of the timber protected, according to the Forest Patrolman, a new leaflet to be issued periodically by the Western Forestry and Con- servation Association. Its first issue is in the interests of forest fire protection and it fur- ther says in connection with the use of air- planes: "Whatever may be the cost of maintenance and operation of airplanes in forest fire patrol work, it can never mount to the total of the annual money loss by forest fires. The indiv- idual machine represents an outlay of several thousand dollars; keeping it in shape for con- tinuous service takes perhaps hundreds of dol- lars; salaries of fliers and mechanicians are high. In comparison with these figures is the annual charge of ten million dollars to de- struction of marketable timber. Last year the forest fire loss on the Pacific coast and Inland Empire is estimated to have been six and a half million dollars. Detection of fires which did this damage when the bla/es were in their incipicncy. would have enabled the fire-fighting forces, federal, state and private, to have pre- vented a good part of this loss."

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