Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-12-12
Lay Forest Fire
Fighting Plans
PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION MEET
In SPOKANE SHOWS 1919
ONE OF WORST YEARS

MS udS petu one VI tue TloSI
disastrous years In the point of for
est losses the North Idaho Forestry
Protective association has ever eX-
perienced,' announced W. ID. Hum I
iatou OF Potiacth. Idaho. yesterday I
The actual destruction OF timber I
was not 50 great as 1910. but the I
-veaburnod over was greater and I
the cost was greater this year / he +
JT.. years previous We're 1910 ana .
1914, but the estimate is one and /
half more than in 1910.
The inefticiency of labor is one
Of the greatest contributing causes.
z ne dry season and the nigh winds
..avo also been responsible
An expenditure of approxinately
ported by the Pend Oreille Timber
Protective association for 1919. ac
oording TO the statement of T. Il.
! Greer. secretary treasurer of the
association, at the regular monthly
meeting of the North Idaho For
estry Protective association in the
Hutton building yesterday He re-
ported also total of 81 fires
caused by logging operations. rail-
roads, ranchers clearing land. road
building. hunters. lightning and
incendiary. resulting in q total loss
to green timber Of 100000 feet.
The fires burned over an area Of
$1,000 acres, causing q" loss to green
timber of 100000 feet amid dam
aging 100000 feet
The Potlatch Timber Protective
association reports a financial loss
by fire Of s22.153 during 1919.
This includes Sc fires and covered
an area of 1.211,150 acres.
The total number OF fires In
the territory of the Clearwater Tim
ber Protective Association was IA,
entailing a cost of $22,164 for fire
J ting for the year. The total
seasons expenses were s46.603. The
! timber loss for the territory was
S,635.000 feet.
|, Plans for the use of army air
planes for patroiling the timber ot
the Pacific northwest in cooperation
: With the United States war depart
ment were discussed extensively al
the meeting yesterday morning, In
case the plans materialiZe Spokane
will be used as a sub-baSe. the main
, bases being at Missoula, Mont.
Camp Lewis and Mather Field. Cal
w. d. Humiston and c. S. Chap
: man of the Western Forestry and
3 Conservation association of Port
e land drafted the following resolu
l tions, which were adopted by thu
association:
1--WE urge favorable actiop on thu
request Of the secretary OF agri
z culture for an increase OF 100000
r in that item of the Weeks law pro
i viding funds for cooperation will
j the various states in forest fire pro
n lection. This law, and the small
7 amount appropriated for carrying
Il out it's provisions, has been ex
: tremely helpful in securing bette
J forest protection throughout tn
X northwest and we ask our con
i gressional delegation To use thei
E combined influence to see that tn
Is increase requested is granted by th
G. committee having the matter !
is charge.
N Report has been made to tn
war department by Colonel II. /
re Arnold, department air service o
er flee, stationed at San Franclsc
t. outlining plan for air patrol of tt
forests of the northwest. We url
- adoption of this report as meal
= OF preventing loss OF timber throue
forest fires. Within the area to
patrolled are over S0,000.o00 acr'
" government owned timber, ar
from standpoint of volume fully
per cent OF all government-own'
timber in the United States outsi'
OF Alaska.
I'm order that the greatest efi
cheney result from operation OF ;
air patrol we urge that speci
appropriation OF $4,000 be ma
available for the federal forest -
vice to be used In cooperation vi
the air service and that this appr
priation become Immediately ava
able, since air patrol should sta
not later than April I. 1920.
"Forest protection agencies ha
repeatedly asked the weather
reau for more efficient service
the forecasting Of dangerous Wit