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President Conant has allocated $5000 from University funds to fight the menace of forest fires in Petersham, site of the Harvard Forest, and to curtail them if they develop. This offer has been given to Patrick J. Moynihan, chairman of the Massachusetts emergency committee, by Ward Shepard '10, Director of the Forest and head of the special committee to guard against forest fires...
Forest fires of immense and devastating proportions loomed as the next and perhaps greatest chapter in New England's losing battle with the elements, as authorities, including the W. P. A.'s Harry Hopkins and Ward Shepard '10, Director of the Harvard Forest, conferred yesterday in Boston on emergency measures to stop what may be a conflagration of the entire Connecticut Valley...
Even at that, Shepard, in an interview at his home in Petersham, site of the Forest and center of the carnage, expressed doubt that terrible fires could be avoided if October is a normally dry month. The extent of the havoc in this region can be judged from the fact that in the 2,300 acre Harvard reservation an estimated half to two-thirds of the old growth and much of the younger timber was felled by the wind, measuring from five to ten million board feet...
...Shepard was more concerned with the immediate danger of fire to life and property than with the destruction of his job and the thirty years of painstaking work that have gone into the making of the Forest...
Whether this area can be saved even with the strictest precautions observed seems doubtful to Shepard, and while planning for the safety of Petersham's 700 inhabitants, he more or less expects the town to be leveled to the ground along with an inestimable part of the surrounding country...