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
- Date
- 1946
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service; State of Washington, Keep Washington Green Committee (artist Bergen)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- World War II
- 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. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1178 (NAID 514776).
Text on the object
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
