Sunset Magazine 1910

• Sunset Magazine publishes article by G.L. Hoxie: “How fire helps forestry: The practical vs. the Federal government's theoretical ideas”:

• “...forest fire is a name of terror to all who love trees and who recognize the economic importance of forests...it will surprise the majority of readers to learn that prevention of fire may be made so complete as to menace the forests with greater danger than they now incur..."
• “why not by practical forestry keep the supply of flammable matter on the forest cover or carpet so limited by timely burning as to deprive even the lightning fires of sufficient fuel...”
• “...fires to the forest are as necessary as are crematories and cemeteries to our cities and towns; this is Nature's process for removing the dead of the forest family and for bettering conditions for the living.”