Milford chronicle., 1935-07-12

Elective improvements forests ana ana to
tate large scale campaigns against insects and such
destructive tree diseases the white pine blister rust
'The best methods Of fre control involve the Of
sraegcay located lookout stations carefully planned
truck trails telephone lines and mobile forces of fire
fighting which be rushed fully equipped with tools
the threatened During the past two years CCC
men have been working to improve the detection.
munication and transportation systems for fire control
by laying new telephone lines building truck trails
hitherto inaccessible forest areas erecting fire detec
lion towers constructing thousands of tool boxes filed
with fire fighting TOOLS opening up fire breaks to ac
itate fire fighting and removing inhammabe fire haz-
ards.
drained in fire fighting by Forest Service ofRcers
the CCC boys have served effective suppression
force the ground and thousands Of them haVe per-
formed heroic work the fire line in periods of
gency Last year. of the worst years Of fire hazard
in history because of drought and unfavorabe weather
conditions the CCC largely instrumental in holding
fire losses on the national forests TO hgure well below
the average of comparable years More than 900
man days have been spent by CCC enrollees fighting
forest fires
we'll the development of new recreatonal facili-
ties in othe rtimbered areas has been stressed The
national parks and monumnts have been given better
protection from fires, diseases and insects Due
stimulus of the CCC program, the states have added
than 100000 to their parks Thousands
of acres of park land have been cleared for public
camp grounds. New camp buildings have been erected
Public camp ground water systems have been installed
Simple camp grounds have been developed in national
and state forests These have equipped with pure
drinking water rustic fire places and rooms This
development work has greatly increased the recrea-
tOnal values OF our public forests and
est Service and National Park Service anticipate that
more than 100000 persons will visit the national
parks and forests this year.
"The CCC work record shows that progress has
been registered in the drive reduce or control the
ravages of forest destroying insects and diseases Cam
Paigns have been conducted against pine Beetles the
gypsy moth European bark beetles, erasshOppers and
other forest pests more than 4OOOOOO The
of CCC labor made possible for the For
est Service of the Department of Agriculture to launch
its first major campaign against the white pine blister
rust fungus disease that threatens forests valued in
The hundte eds of millions of dollars Most effective work
against this menace to white pine growth has been
carried in Idaho. the lake and in New Eng
land. More than 1OOOOOOO0 gooseberry and currant
bushes plant hosts essential to the spread of blister
rust dug up and destroyed during the last year
"A large amount of work has been done in the field
lf forest improvement. Broadly, this includes first
imber stand improvement by removal Of dead defec-
i've and worthless trees thinning OveTcrowded stands
Inventories timber stand estimates surveys and for
Est cover and secondly reforestaOn such as the
growing and planting of forest seedlings General for
sand acres while forest stand improvement work has
been done over close to two million More than
1000 experimental forest plots also laid out for
orest research decided impetus has been given to
PLANTING Since the work began approximately 29S 900
lcres has been planted to trees This means that at
east 29O,OOOOOO trees have been planted. Much work
been done at forest nurseries to furnish seedlings
or later paintings.
"A constantly increasing amount of soil erosion
prevention work has been done by CCC men since the
work. begen. Several thousand men have been engaged
IN flood control projects. Wild life conservation has
oiHPi."SiHeu anu ConsiueTdole WORK mas Deen done
developing water facilities for wild life and stock
Four government departments and the Veterans Ad-
have cO-Operated with the Director of
emergency Conservation Work in handling the CCC
rogram The men have been selected through the De-
artment of Labor and the Veterans Administration
he Department of War has enrolled the men, fed and
lothed them constructed the camps and looked after
ne enrollees at all times except when they were At
York in the fields The work has been supervised bv
he Department of Agriculture (prncipally Forest Ser
ice), the Department of the Interior (princDav Ma
onal Park Service) and state agencies The work At
few camps has been supervised by War Department
ersonnel The Office of Indian Affairs has Operated
le camps and supervised all work Indian Reserva-
ons Soil erosion prevention work is now supervised
the Soil Conservation Service of the Department of
grlcuture The work done at wild life conservation
amps is supervised by the Biological Survey