The Overland MonthlySamuel Carson, 1919 |
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... fire outlooks on lonely peaks far above the forests , aviators , perhaps , flying overhead to report the first up- curling ribbons of smoke from new- starting fires . Not in the least a pipe - dream , this last , for the experiment of ...
... fire outlooks on lonely peaks far above the forests , aviators , perhaps , flying overhead to report the first up- curling ribbons of smoke from new- starting fires . Not in the least a pipe - dream , this last , for the experiment of ...
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... fire - rakes of the late Nineties which forest guards used ; the total lack of tele- phones , the three or four days spent by hungry sleepless men in the gulches and on the high divides , cor- ralling a big fire . You will remember ...
... fire - rakes of the late Nineties which forest guards used ; the total lack of tele- phones , the three or four days spent by hungry sleepless men in the gulches and on the high divides , cor- ralling a big fire . You will remember ...
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... fire loss whatever , fires in California can be reduced to merely those started by lightning , perhaps fifty a year , and the total acreage to less than a thousand , the losses to " next to nothing . " In order to reach this much ...
... fire loss whatever , fires in California can be reduced to merely those started by lightning , perhaps fifty a year , and the total acreage to less than a thousand , the losses to " next to nothing . " In order to reach this much ...
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... Fires from their blankets a few hours later , and ran for their precious lives ! Their camp , horses and wagon were wiped out ; the fire burned for a week or so , destroying much timber . The men went into Truckee and asked a lawyer if ...
... Fires from their blankets a few hours later , and ran for their precious lives ! Their camp , horses and wagon were wiped out ; the fire burned for a week or so , destroying much timber . The men went into Truckee and asked a lawyer if ...
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... fires . Let us all help to enforce the State and Federal fire laws . Let us forever get rid of the notion that " light sum- mer burning " is ever a good thing in our forests . forests . That long - discredited 18461 A theory is of the ...
... fires . Let us all help to enforce the State and Federal fire laws . Let us forever get rid of the notion that " light sum- mer burning " is ever a good thing in our forests . forests . That long - discredited 18461 A theory is of the ...
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