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Have you ever seen a forest fire It’s a soul-shattering experience you II never forget! Acres of trees literally “explode” from heat. A single tree roars up and burns as fast a sheet of newspaper in a hot stove!
In the decade ending 1940, more than TWO MILLION wildfires swept U.S. forests ... an average of 575 a day. These fires blackened an area more than seven times the size of Maine. One single fire laid waste a strip 25 miles wide and 120 miles long! The number of trees destroyed would have built 2,500,000 five-room houses. And billions of little trees were killed, that might have become sorely needed forests fifty years from now.
But much more than trees is lost every year from forest fires. Millions of game animals are destroyed. Without live trees to hold and soak up the rainfall, costly land erosion begins, the
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