Watershed wildfire

National Archives and Records Administration Watershed wildfire Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. Division of State and Private Forestry. Fire and Aviation Management Staff. (1986) ARC Identifier 13524 / Local Identifier 95.226. Documentary record of 36 hours of campaign firefighting by three cooperating agencies. Includes a hard-driving lesson on human carelessness with fire. Explains how U.S. Marines, California fire fighting personnel, and Indian forest fire fighters cooperated with the Forest Service in controlling the 1955 fire in the Los Padres National Forest in California, which destroyed its vegetation. Emphasizes the need for immediate reseeding to prevent floods. Made possible by a donation from John and Paige Curran.