WIRELESS FIRE CALLS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8737, 20 May 1914, Page 2

WIRELESS FIRE CALLS

HOW THE FORESTS*OF CANADA ARE PROTECTED. Every year experiences a great destruction of valuable timber property in Canada, as in other lands, where there are vast tracts of forest, aa a result of fires originated, in various ways. For years organised effort has been made in the Dominion to check this waste, and now these efforts ar« to be supplemented.

The Reeky Mountains Forest !!*• serve, which lies just north of the international lino in Alberta, embrace* an area of about 18,750 square railed of timber land. Since the establishment of the reserve in 1910 there has been an organised effort to check tha forest waste by fire. In providing for lire protection the reserve has been divided into five each of which is under the control of a forest supervisor. These divisions run from 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 acres in area, and are arranged on topographical lines, so that they can bo administered practically independent of each other.

Each supervisor further subdivides the district under his charge into ranger districts, which average roughly about 200,000 acres each. The plan of locating fires hy triangulation from lock-out peaks and hy communicating by wireless or telephone has made it possible to secure adequate protection at a cost of from one to two cents pe* acre. .