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Excerpt from Forest-Fire Control in the Lake States: October 1954 Fires, but none have suffered more often or more severely than the Lake States. Evidence of fires in prehistoric times has been found in the charred remains of ancient trees buried in bogs and glacial drift and is to be seen in the oak openings of southern Wisconsin. The records left by early explorers and missionaries tell of fires that burned for weeks in dry seasons and covered extensive areas. As early as 1735, a Jesuit priest, traveling from Grand Portage to the Lake of the Woods, reported vast fires raging along the way. Frequent references to forest fires are also to be found in old newspapers and the letters of pioneers. It remained for settlement and commercial forest exploitation following the Civil War, however, to set the stage for the catastrophic fires of the past century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.