Grass is life, protect it, prevent range fires
Two stockmen in work clothes, one mounted and one standing, look over a valley of grazing cattle under the headline 'GRASS IS LIFE' and 'PROTECT IT'. The message is range-fire prevention. Plain-folks ranchers carry the appeal; the slogan states a broad value without a stated fact.
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-915 (NAID 514420).
Text on the object
GRASS IS LIFE PROTECT IT PREVENT RANGE FIRES U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOREST SERVICE [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945-O-630646 STATE FOREST SERVICE
