Petersham High School - Hilltop Yearbook (Petersham, MA)

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THE HILLTOP All the improvements that have been made in the prevention and fighting of forest fires cost hundreds of dollars. Those hundreds of dollars spent for protection of the forests could be spent for a better cause if people would be more thought- ful, for seventy-five per cent of all the forest fires is caused by carelessness. This fact proves that all the expense and destruction are not neces sary. Carelessness is like a glowing emberg it is fanned into flame by the thoughtless, but could easily be stamped out if the thoughtless would join the thoughtful nlblidge B tes, 5 ON KFFNJKGFJ-Xfl l ' The gre test step in reforestation for many years, and perhaps the greatest since the found ing of this continent, is being taken by the Civilian Conservation Corps. It is a government organization which was started in 1955 by yresi dent Roosevelt to aid the unemployed men of the United States. When the first camps were organ ized many people were still skeptical of the out a great success. More camps were built in all parts of the United States, and thousands of men, especially young men between the ages of twenty and thirty years, were put to work These boys have done a great deal for refer estation in the following ways: making fire roads, cleaning up forests to prevent fires, dig ging water holes, making parks, and experimenting with and studying trees and insects which has been done by the C. C. C. is the wer along the scientific line. Every year since C. C. C. has been in existence, the boys h covered thousands of acres of forest lan. un ing such insects as t 1 ,'-- m .rown W 5 is 1 A is A JE ' f M -4 0 ti! 'T 'U X 'a Y Q M FN 'N.' I ' X. 1 I - ,, JJ ffl , . . l 3 ' ' C. L X ' ' 0 1 c.. 5.5: - M., 3? L Q, -' 'faii come of the Eresidcnt's plan, but it proved to be jyj gvfij A -'QQ 1 if C A . X133- - x .. Mr' D H51- 0 Nu J ' 'I N Q' Perhaps the greatest step in reforestatio .5 5' t- O J tail moth, the tent caterpillar, and the elm wee vil. The habits of these insects, their harm to F9