Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-13

trees afire. Sometimes people who
live with the forest around them
have their houses burn when the
forest IS on fire. Often times men
set fires that burn thousands of
dollars worth of lumber in this
way.
Many acres of trees have died be-
cause they have been killed by in
sectS. The United States govern
ment has sent men out to keep the
fire and insects out of the forest
and has also sent them to buy and
reserve some forests for parks.
They are also reserving lakes for
the fish. The United States has
many fish hatcheries in every state
so that the lakes will be kept sup
piled with fish.
CThird Prize-John Behreandt).
The white man found the land
covered with trees of all kinds
such as oak, maple, Eastwood,
birch, pine, hemlock and ironwood.
He considered these trees his
friends because he could build a
house from them and have the trees
for fuel and protection. From them
he made a fort so that the Indians
could not kill him.
Our forests have been treated
very cruelty by the logging com
panies. They have been burned and
wasted.
The forests are not inexhaustible
as 1T seems to the men, who cut
them down for lumber and wood,
thought. They have been wasted
by killing the little trees and not
caring for them, by cutting them
down and burning the woods with
fire. One should be careful with
cigarettes, when one goes out into
the woods, you should put out your
fire before leaving there so it will
not burn the forests up and when
you leave, your fire should be en-
tirely out.
The trees form a protection for
the man from hard winds and biz
yards. To the community, the logs
are sold for lumber. To a state or
a nation as a park or resort for
tourists.
The wood is used for lumber,
fuel and paper also. Another use
is to make a dam with the lumber
and logs so the mill will have a
good water supply to use it for
steam in the mill to give the en-
gine power.
The lumber is used to make a
fish dam and hold all the fish that
are protected. The other game is
protected till the season is open
for it. The countries where all the
trees have been cut off have be-
come deserts such as a place where
there are no trees to keep the
ground moist and. damp for the
crops the farmer raises.
Whenever a foreigner comes over
here to take little land, he should
not cut off all the trees so one can
not get the full growth of ones
crops. Then he cuts down all the
trees and spoils the country where
we live. His ground is not as good
as that of the other persons around
and who keeps the trees in his gar
den and on his farm.
The moisture is useful to the
trees because it gives them food
and drink. 1t takes a tree about
thirty to forty years to grow and
get its full growth and become
large enough tree to use as lumber
or fuel.
The enemies of the forest are
man, fire and insects. The man
kills the tree by cutting it down
and using it for fuel and lumber.
The fire is one of the worst enc
mics of forests because a person
goes along and throws a cigarette
butt or a cigar stub in the dry
leaves and catches fire and sets the
trees on fire and burns the forests
and large timber and small too, and
often times houses and people too.
The insect is another bad enemy
of the forests because it gets in the
bark and bores through the trees
and kills it in that way.
The state is trying to save the
remaining forests instead of cut
ting down the trees for fuel and
lumber.
In the National forests where
there is no park, the government
gives one permission to take the
ripe trees for lumber, wood or fuel.