Excerpt from Forest Leaves, Vol. 18: February, 1921 Mr. Pinchot has placed absolute prevention of forest fires in his list of necessary measures. If money, men and enforcement of law can bring it about he is determined to end the wicked waste that burns up not only the present, but the com ing timber resources of the commonwealth. In as far as the Pennsylvania Forestry Association fails to back him in this great endeavor it will fail in a patriotic duty. It is time for us to gird ourselves for the combat. The wealth that within remembrance of men living now, we have burned up, wasted, and deprived our children of, fairly staggers the imagination. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.