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Forest Fires Cause Much
Damage In Virginia
During 1941), 1601 forest fires burned 12,13:? acres in Virginia, a loss of .09 per cent of the 13,014,661 acres of forest land protected by the Virginia Forest Service.
Burn only after 4 p.m.—D. ring the period commencing March 1st and ending May 15, Virginia law prohibits setting fire to any inflammable material capable of spreading fire, located within 300 feet of any woodland, except between the hours of four o’clock in the afternoon and midnight.
More than 80 per cent of the forest fires burning each year in Virginia occur during the dry, •windy days of March and April, according to the Virginia Forest Service.
Careless smokers, failing to extinguish matches, cigarette stubs or pipe ashes before discarding, caused 496 forest fires in Virginia during 1943.
Forest fires are the greatest enemy of Virgnia’s 15 million acres of forest land, and to the welfare of more than 50,000 persons employed in the State’s 3000 plants using wood as a raw material. It
Lumber production in Virginia, has averaged one billion board feet annually for the past 48 years. 1,306 million board feet of lumber was manufactured in Virginia during 1948, which is sufficient to build 87,000 five-room houses.
Virginia has 30 recognised "tree farmers” who are producing-timber crops on 186,764 acres.
During 1949 lightning was the only “natural" cause of forest fires in Virginia and was responsible for 12 fires, less than 1 per cent of the State’s 1601 fires. Ma , through carelessness in smoking, debris burning, railroading, campfires and other ac-< tivities caused 1589 firse, or 99 per cent of the total. ?
1,306,509 cords of pulpwood were cut in Virginia during 1948. If these cords were placed end to end they would extend 1554 miles
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