Rangers Hold a Kaniksu Forest Fire to Forty Acres
Two rangers and a hired crew keep a West Branch blaze from spreading through the national forest.
A forest fire has been doing considerable damage in the West Branch country in the Kaniksu National Forest this week. Two rangers and a force of assistants have been fighting the fire and succeeded in confining it to about 40 acres. The rangers have authority to hire men to fight fires when necessary.
“Two rangers and a force of assistants have been fighting the fire and succeeded in confining it to about 40 acres.”
A 40-acre fire in the Kaniksu was a manageable local emergency in 1908, handled by rangers who hired men on the spot. Today the same forest landscape faces longer, more severe fire seasons, and the tension between timber work and fire response is no less familiar.
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