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Forest fires: their destructive work, causes and prevention
Forest fires their destructive work causes and prevention Author:William Willard Ashe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: over 1,000 acres of recently lumbered pine lands, killing all the young pines and a great deal of scrub oak timber. The wire-grass in the pine-barrens is fired e... more »very spring to better the grazing and to kill out the young growth. Robeson County seems to have suffered less than usual from fires during 1894. There were a great many small grass-fires which destroyed the undergrowth. In that portion of the county where the stock law is in operation there were very few fires. Sampson County.—A correspondent from this county, which lies in the long-leaf pine region, estimated that there were 100,000 acres of timbered land burned over, with a loss of $50,000. The loss was mostly in young growth, to a less extent in timber. - Burning is practiced for pasturage; but some fires are accidental. Most of the young pine growth in the forests, especially in the southern part of the county, is kept killed down. Another correspondent in the south-western part of the county states that there were no serious forest fires in his section during the past year, though there were many smaller ones. Wake County.—There is a considerable part of this county burned over every fall and spring, damaging a great deal of young growth. The same applies also to the adjoining counties of Nash and Chatham. Most of these fires are purposely started or escape from brush-fires where new ground is being cleared. Wayne County.—A large part of the southern section of this county, where it is very sandy and grassy, was burned over in the spring of 1894 for pasturage. Fires have killed all of the young long-leaf pines in this part of the county and only scrub oaks have taken their place. Remaining Counties.—No reports, or none that were satisfactory, were obtained from Tyrrell, Washington, Dare, Hyde, Duplin, ...« less