Weekly news letter . ^ssngs*5 ppklg ^to0 Published by theUnited States Department of Agriculture Waslriington. Vol. IX. AUGUST 31, 1921 No. 5 THIRTY-THREE STATES JOINMOVE TO SAFEGUARD FORESTS Twenty-five Share in Federal Coopera-tive Protection Fund by Maintain-ing Fire Fighting Systems. Public Backing Being Given to Legislation forSecurity and Use of Remaining Timber-lands—Pennsylvania Leads with Ap-propriation of $1,870,000. Probably never in the history of thiscountry has there been such marked in-terest in forest preservation by Statelegislators as at the present time, reportofficers of th
Weekly news letter . ^ssngs*5 ppklg ^to0 Published by theUnited States Department of Agriculture Waslriington. Vol. IX. AUGUST 31, 1921 No. 5 THIRTY-THREE STATES JOINMOVE TO SAFEGUARD FORESTS Twenty-five Share in Federal Coopera-tive Protection Fund by Maintain-ing Fire Fighting Systems. Public Backing Being Given to Legislation forSecurity and Use of Remaining Timber-lands—Pennsylvania Leads with Ap-propriation of $1,870,000. Probably never in the history of thiscountry has there been such marked in-terest in forest preservation by Statelegislators as at the present time, reportofficers of the Forest Service, UnitedStates Department of Agriculture. No some sort of forestry activities and 25of these share in the Federal cooperativeforest protection fund, allotted to Statesmaintaining an effective fire detectionand suppression system. Two othershave applied recently for such backing of the movement to pre-serve the remaining forests from destruc-tion by fire, and to put idle forest landsto work growing trees, is becoming wide-spread, and the effects of the populardemand for
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