Forest Fires Destroy Game
Horizontal forest-fire prevention sheet: a squirrel with wide eyes reaches toward the viewer while young squirrels look out of a tree hollow, birds fly past, and red flame shapes frame a panel reading 'Forest Fires Destroy Game'. The tell is the use of wide-eyed animals in peril to prompt concern in the viewer.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, with State Forest Service
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, with State Forest Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-827 (NAID 514321).
Text on the object
FOREST FIRES DESTROY GAME U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOREST SERVICE STATE FOREST SERVICE [imprint:] ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1945 -O- 630538
