. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. HISTORIC FOREST FIRES. 81 I)iirt of I lie damaLie to the iieigliboiiiood. The wages that would have been earned in lumbering-, added to the value of the produce that would have been i)ur- chased to supply the lumber camps, and the taxes that would have been devoted to roads and other j)nblic imi^rovements, lurnish a much truer measure of how. Fig. 76.—a Tiocky Mountaiu coniferous forest killed V)y tire. Valley of the North Fork of Sun Kiver, Montana. much, sooner or later, it costs a region when its forests are destroyed by fire. (See figs. 76
. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. HISTORIC FOREST FIRES. 81 I)iirt of I lie damaLie to the iieigliboiiiood. The wages that would have been earned in lumbering-, added to the value of the produce that would have been i)ur- chased to supply the lumber camps, and the taxes that would have been devoted to roads and other j)nblic imi^rovements, lurnish a much truer measure of how. Fig. 76.—a Tiocky Mountaiu coniferous forest killed V)y tire. Valley of the North Fork of Sun Kiver, Montana. much, sooner or later, it costs a region when its forests are destroyed by fire. (See figs. 76-81, and Pis. XLI, XLVl, XLVII.) The Peshtigo fire of October, 1871, was still more severe than the Miramichi. It covered an area of over 2,000 square miles in Wisconsin, and involved a loss, in timber and other property, of many millions of dol- lars. Between 1,200 and 1,500 persons perished, includ- ing nearly half the ])opulation of Peshtigo, at that time. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Division of Forestry. Washington : G. P. O.
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