Plow around to prevent forest fires. See your fire warden
Forest-fire prevention sheet: a farmer in overalls ploughs a firebreak with a mule while a second man tends a brush pile burning behind it, two buckets beside him. Headline and a red 'See your fire warden' line give the instruction. The technique is plain-folks, ordinary farmers shown doing the advised task; no enemy or war appeal appears on the sheet.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- 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
- 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. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1526 (NAID 515192).
Text on the object
PLOW AROUND TO PREVENT FOREST FIRES SEE YOUR FIRE WARDEN U.S. Dept. Agriculture, Forest Service __ State Forest Service [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—569070
