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Betler Fire Weother Forecosting Discussed qr RRCC Meeting

E,ureka, June 17-Better fire weather forecasting was one of the main topics discussecl at a Forest Fire Roundtable meeting at Benbor,v Inn, Garberville, June 13.

The meeting was sponsored by the Redr,r,ood Region Conservation Council in the interest of forest fire prevention. and rvas attended by state and federal forest officials and representatives of the forest industry. A. H. Merrill, Hammond Lumber Company forester and chairman of the Redu'ood Region Conservation Council fire prevention committee, presided.

Forecasting of fire .lveather during the forest fire season n'ill be improved this year, according to Chairman Merrill. Daily forecasts, broadcast by the U. S. Forest Service, in coordination with the State Division of Forestry, U. S. \Veather Bureau and the Redrvood Region Conservation Council. rvill l>e made at Crescent City, Eureka, Ukiah, Fort Bragg and Santa Cruz throughout the summer fire season. Forecasts .r,r'ill shou, daily changes in fire danger as affected by temperature, relative humidity. wind velocity, and fuel moisture. and n'ill .i"u'arn the public to be especially careful during periods of high danger.

C. C. Buck, technician at the U. S. Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, attended the meeting to help region lumber companies u.ith problems of setting up private rveather stations.

Stations are operated b1- Hammond Lumber Company at Big Lagoon, Simpson Logging Company, Klamath, and

Nlasonite Corporation, Ukiah, and a nen' station .lvill be started tl-ris year by Dolly Varden Lumber Company of Arcata. These stations, in addition to others maintained b1' the U. S. Forest Service and the State Division of Forestry, all provide information for the fire rveather forecasts.

Other subjects discussed at the meeting included administration of the Forest Ilractice larvs by the State Division of Forestry, and fire protection problems common to industry, state, and federal agencies.

Distribution of fire prevention materials in the region u'ill probably hit a nerv high tl'ris year, Nlerrill said. The Redu.ood Region Conservation Council plans to clistribute more than 200,000 pieces of material, in addition to many thousands by the State Division of Forestry and the U. S. Forest Service.

One of tl're purposes of the Forest Fire Roundtable is to effect a greater feeling of cooperation betrn'een industry, state, and federal officials in fire protection and prevention problems, Nlerrill said. "And in this regard we can certainly call the meeting a distinct success," he concluded.

Ray Wiig, Southern California Lumber Sales of Monrovia, representing Ivory Pine Company of California, recently covered Reno, Nevada, and Salt Lake City on a combined business and pleasure trip. Enroute home he stopped at the company mills near Dinuba, California.