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| FLOODS } { PURE WATER |
| DISEASE } OR { HEALTH |
| DESTRUCTION } { THRIVING INDUSTRIES |
| DEVASTATION } { PROSPERITY |
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| For Information Respecting Pennsylvania Forests and |
| Tree Planting, write to |
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| COMMISSIONER OF FORESTRY, |
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| Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
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[Illustration: This large poster, printed on sheets 14 by 22 inches,
has been of excellent service in Pennsylvania.]

[Illustration: _American Forestry_
The seed trees left by the lumberman are giving rise to a new forest.]

In convenient places the rangers store boxes of tools, which include
axes, picks, shovels, and rakes to be used in fighting any near-by fire.
They also have at hand provisions and camp outfits, so as to be able to
live anywhere in the woods.

In some parts where there is a great deal of small timber and brush,
"fire lines" are cut along the ridges where it is easiest to stop a
fire, should one occur. Our forests are so vast that it is not possible
to remove the dead wood as is done in Europe and thus lessen the danger
of fire.

The forest rangers also wage a warfare against insect pests. In regions
where the bark beetles carry on their destructive work among the pines,
the rangers sometimes cut down and burn thousands of trees. Another duty
of the rangers is that of replanting burned or logged-off areas. In this
way many thousands of acres which would otherwise remain waste land for
years, not being suitable for agriculture, are made in a short time to
produce a new forest.

A limited number of cattle and sheep are allowed in those forests which
can be pastured without doing injury to the young trees or affecting the
flow of the streams. The rangers have charge of this work and collect
the rent. A part of the money derived from the sale of timber and for
pasturage rights is expended in the improvement of the road