The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-04-26
FOREST WEEK IS FIT
TINGLY OBSERVED
IN CARBON COUNTY

Forest week is being fittingly OBJ
served this week with a campaign of
education carried on in this city and
locality, by District Forester L. H.
Mclean. The raople of this city have
been attracted to the Creonquist win
dow, which is aitisticaHy decorated
by A. H. Croonquist, IN enthusiast
in the work, to impress The Importance
of fire prevention on the public; two
pictures are presented and one a de-
vestated fire swept area, the result of
carelessness on the par of campers
and others, and the other virgin
forest in full life and nscathed by
tire, the result of care on the part of
campers and tourists, as we'll as the
protection of the forest supervisor and
his assistants and the people gen
orally.
Monday night a talk was made by
A. H. Croonquist at the meeting of
the Red Lodge Rod and Gun club, and
on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 L.
M. Prill addressed the students of the
Carbon county high school. Wednes-
day eve ing a meeting was held in
the Roosevelt school at which time
MIR. Prill gave a short talk on wood
and its uses and following MIR. Nc
Lean gave a very interesting Illus
t1ated lecture, using slides furnished
by the government. Many of the pic
lures We're taken in the Beartooths
and were pictures showing local peo-
pie.
Fl. A. Simmons, Jr., Of the senior
class of the Carbon county high school
will devote the balance Of the week
giving a short address in each of the
grade schools and tonight round
table discussion will be INDUCED in
lat the meeting Of the Inquiry club.
This afternoon, Forester Mclean
accompanied by County Attorney f.
Il Conwell and Mr.. Prill, are holding
a meeting at Roberts, where Mr.. Me
Lean will deliver his illustrated lee
ture and Messrs. Conwell and Pril
will speak on the important subject
OF fire prevention and re-forestatior
and tonight they will hold meeting
IN Joliet where addresses will b.
made by Mr.. Prill and County Attor
Iney r. P. Conwell inv conjunction
with the illustrated lecture of For
ester Mclean, and tomorrow night the
same program, participated in by the
same speakers, will be held at Bear
creek. It is planned to hold meet
ing Of like nature at Washoe Monday
night, at which time Mr. Mclean vii
deliver his illustrated lecture.
Aside from the above mentioned
meetings, Mr.. Mclean will visit prac
tically all the rural schools on tht
west side during the week.
Every afternoon and evening this
week, District Forester Mclean is de
livering an illustrated lecture, no
only in the towns and cities of hi.
territory, but also in the country
schools on the west side, as it is hi.
plan and the plan of the department
to reach as many people as possible
Forester R. A. Coster has charge O.
the same work at Luther and the rura
schools 'therabouts and Forester C. 0
Williamson is attending to the SAINT
class Of work in the rural schools anC
townsn Of the Clarks Fork valley
In an interview with the reporter
for the News, Monday, Mr.. MrLear
said that the devotion of one weel
each year to study Of forest prob
lens and enlisting the support OF The
public generally in the protection anc
use of the national forest was started
in the Pacific northwest and was in
tended primarily for the protection
of the forest against man-caused fires
He stated further that the movement
started in Washington and Oregon
and was known as Forest Protection
week, but that in 1925 President Cool.
idge enlarged its scope and the pc
Rod has been known since as Amer
lean Forest week. He stated further
that heretofore emphasis has beer
placed mostly on forest protection
against fire, but that this week the
feature Of re-forestation is also en-
phasized not only for the purpose of
retaining what forests we have, but
if possible, to increase them and
utilize waste land by planting trees
on it, whose growth will tend not only
to prevent floods and erosion and add
beauty to the landscape but will be
a source of real revenue in the years
TO come.