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With reports from all over this area bringing in news such as that of the New Hampshire State Forester that he had not seen a single pine tree standing between Concord and the southern state line, and with the fallen timber rapidly drying, National Guard units prepared to keep tourists out of the district and take all possible precautions...
...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...
...extent of the fire hazard in the shape of fallen timber is shown by the almost total loss of the 2,300 acre Harvard forest in Petersham where between five and ten million board feet of lumber are down. In an attempt to preserve the safety of lives and property in this region by prompt emergency measures Ward Shepard '10 Director of the Harvard Forest, is in Boston today to confer with Harry Hopkins, head of the W. P. A., and state officials...
Petersham, Mass., Sept. 23: With all hands kept busy clearing roads, there has been little time to make a survey of the damage to the Harvard Forest as a whole. However, this whole region has been very hard hit, with extensive areas of timber completely levelled...
...Paul Bunyanesque stride is suitable to Peter B. Kyne's famed tale of lumberjacking and land grabbing in California's redwood forests. Charles Bickford, as head of a crooked gang of Eastern lumber barons, is determined to whittle the world's oldest stand of timber down to shingle slabs. Wayne Morris, an idealistic young landowner, is committed to preserving his mortgaged title to acreage that the gang needs to complete its shocking plan. The changing sympathies of Claire Trevor, a blonde croupière, help determine the outcome of the struggle...