Fosbrooke, Henry A2021-10-182021-10-181980Fosbrooke, Henry A .(1980).Draft for comment - not for publication : fire! master or servant?http://41.86.178.5:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/16143Available in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr .Wilbert Changula Library( EAF FOS F115)It has been said throughout the ages that fire is a good servant of man, but a bad master. In the domestic sphere this is all too obvious. with fire as a servant we get our food cooked, and in cold climates, our houses warmed. Fire burns the bricks to build our homes, and to bake our crockery and our cooking pots. But as far as the conservation of the environment is concerned, everyone tends to look on fire as an enemy. And indeed, this is frequently so. The tragic loss of hundreds of hectares of maturing plantations at Mufindi, the set-back to re-afforestation in the Hado area of Kondoa, the reports which tragically and repeatedly appear in the press of fire in forests of Kilimanjaro and our other mountain masses, reveal an enemy on which we have to wage continued warfare.enFireArticle