Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 23, 1958—11
Forest Fires Nationally Hit Low;
Numbers Increase in Northeast
Forest fires were held to a rec
ord low of 83,400 nationwide in
1957, breaking the 100,000 mark
for the first time, the U S De
paitment of Agriculture an
nounced today
The statistics compiled by
USDA’s Forest Seivice are based
on reports from its field offices,
State Foresters, the Department
ol the Interior, and the Tennessee
Valley Authonty.
Last year’s recoid compares
v ilh 143,000 forest fires in 1956
and 200,800 ten years ago in 1047
The area burned was almost halv
ed dropping from 6,605,900 acres
in 1956 to 3,409,000 in 1957 Ten
years ago fires burned 23,225,932
acres
MUCH CREDIT FOR the 1957
lecord is due the American pub
lic USDA commended three pro
grams for outstanding contribu
tions to forest fire prevention
One is the Smokey Bear Campaign
sponsored by its Forest Service
and the State Foresters under the
leadership of the Advertising
Council.
Another is the Keep Green Pro
giams conducted by forest indus
tries and the states The third is
the work of the American Forest
Assn in spearheading the South
ern Forest Fire Conference in
New Orleans two years ago which
did much to decrease fires in the
South
The combined efforts of these
organizations have made people
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lire prevention conscious In ap
preciation of their woik the pics
ident of the American Forest Pro
ducts Industries, the president of
the American Forestry Assn and
the Chairman of the Board of the
Advertising Council were given
snecial recognition at the White
House.
THE GREATEST REDUCTION
in the number of forest fires oc
curred in the South where 44,100
v/ere r\iorted in 1957 as compar
ed to 102,700 in 1956 While
weather conditions were favor
able to low fire records generally,
the fire fighting agencies believe
that the southern Forest Fire Pre
\cntion Conference of 1956 in
New Orleans contributed greatly
to the reductions At the confer
ence representatives of law en
foi cement agencies, women’s
clubs, industries, state conserva
tion agencies, and other leading
individuals discussed mutual
problems and possible solutions.
Law enforcement efforts adopt
ed alter the Conterence caused
incendiary fires in the South to
diap from 20,800 in 1956 to 11,-
700 in 1957 States and even coun
ties have held their own forest
file prevention conferences and
have come up with active preven
tion programs which they publi
cized locally As a further effort,
the Southeastern Fire Compact
was activated last fall whereby
the ten states from-Virgima and
Kentucky, south, and east of the
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Paradise. Stoltzfus fills the wagon with
chop in the morning and pulls it into the
lot for the animals to feed. One or two
boards can be removed at the bottom to
Mississippi River, can exchange
men and equipment in case of em
ergencies, thus strengthening con
tiol programs.
THE SEVERAL HOT spots
allow the grass to fall down. Already
planning an improvement, Stoltzfus sajs
that if a deeper trough were provided,
there would be less waste from the ani
mals pulling chop out and onto the ground,
(LF Photo)
around the country last year how-
Cver, indicate that the lire control
iob is not over. New England and
New York last May had to close
the woods because fires were so
numerous The fire i ecord for the
5 ear in the Eastern region, Maine
through Kentucky, showed an in
crease m the number of fires
from 15,000 in 1956 to 19,400 in
1957
Alaska, not included in the to
tals above, had one of its worst
>ears with 264 fires burning 4,-
718 372 acres
Pennsylvania fire numbers al
most tripled, jumping to 1,254
trom 562 m 1956
Debris burners were the No 1
cause of fires in 1957.
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