Loggers do prevent fires: Greater danger than ever

Forest-fire prevention sheet for logging crews: tall conifers, felled logs and a tractor with a red-shirted driver, under the headline 'Loggers do prevent fires' and a boxed list of six working rules. The only persuasive device is the closing line 'Greater Danger Than Ever'; the fear-appeal technique is faint here, and the sheet is mostly plain instruction.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Fear appeal

Date

1944

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

Mobilize or secure compliance

Themes

Home front, Labor

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. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1300 (NAID 514906).

LOGGERS DO
PREVENT FIRES
1. By smoking only when and where specified,
and then extinguishing all matches, cigarette
butts, pipe heels.
2. By maintaining safe spark arresters on logging
engines, tractors, trucks.
3. By clearing inflammable debris from around
stationary logging engines and blocks.
4. By equipping gas or diesel engines, tractors,
trucks with fire extinguishers.
5. By keeping good fire tools handy in boxes,
except when being used on a fire.
6. By following safe practices always, and quickly
controlling any fire that starts.
"Greater Danger Than Ever"
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
State Forest Service
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—569072
[illegible] (small lettering on tractor)