94 Circular 211, Dept. of Agriculture 
exercising every care not to cause fires and by inform- 
ing the nearest forest supervisor or ranger of any fire 
which may be discovered. 
By the observance of the following simple rules for 
the handling of fire in the mountains users of the 
forests will very materially assist in their protection: 
1. Matches.—Be sure your match is out. Break itin 
two before you throw it away. 
2. Tobacco.—Be sure that pipe ashes and cigar or 
cigarette stubs are dead before throwing them away. 
Never throw them inte brush, leaves, or needles. 
3. Making camp.—Before building a fire scrape 
away all inflammable material from a spot 5 feet in 
diameter. Dig a hole in the center and in it build 
your camp fire. Keep your fire small. Never build 
it against trees or logs or near brush. 
4, Breaking camp.—Never break camp until your 
fire is out—dead out. 
5. Brush burning.—Never burn slash or brush in 
windy weather or while there is the slightest danger 
that the fire will get away. 
6. How to put out a camp fire.—Stir the coals while 
soaking them with water. Turn small sticks and 
drench both sides. Wet the ground around the fire. 
If you can’t get water stir in dirt and tread it down 
until packed tight over and around the fire. Be 
sure the last spark is dead. 
Since practically 80 per cent of the forest fires of 
known causes are due to human agencies, the need of 
the most energetic efforts to bring home to the public 
the importance of care to prevent fires is self-evident. 
The Forest Service is earnestly seeking to lessen the 
number of man-caused fires in this way. As recrea- 
tional use of the forests by the public increases and 
the local population and activities of all kinds on and 
near the forests become greater, man-caused fires are 
bound to become more numerous unless educational 
methods can be made effective. The present very gen- 
eral observance of American Forest Week is bringing 
to public attention the importance of preventing fires