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title: 'Keep''em green: your care will help prevent forest fires'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-em-green-prevent-forest-fires-1946/
description: 'Landscape poster: a snow-capped range, a lake and tall pines, a stag in the foreground and a small campsite with a thin smoke column dividing the headline.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Keep'em green: your care will help prevent forest fires, 1946 US poster: Landscape poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/keep-em-green-prevent-forest-fires-1946.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/keep-em-green-prevent-forest-fires-1946.jpg)

# Keep'em green: your care will help prevent forest fires

Landscape poster: a snow-capped range, a lake and tall pines, a stag in the foreground and a small campsite with a thin smoke column dividing the headline. Below, 'Your care will help prevent forest fires.' The technique is faint here: scenic beauty and a personal appeal ('Your care') stand in for an explicit warning.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
keep'em green
Your care will help PREVENT FOREST FIRES
[signature: Bergen]
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1946 O-682663]
State of Washington
Keep Washington Green Committee
```

[← How you can help save a life](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/how-you-can-help-save-a-life-1946/) ['Síla KSČ je v lidu': Communist Party pre-election photomontage leaflet, 1946 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ksc-sila-lidu-pre-election-leaflet-1946/)

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