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Show Caution: Put Out Fires When Forest Camping Campers, smokers and incendiary incen-diary carelessness annually accounts ac-counts for nearly half of the destructive range and forest fires in Utah, according to American Am-erican Forest Product Industry reports. Department of fish and game spokesmen note that these figures fig-ures again highlight the need for caution when using fire while in the outdoors. Each year in the United States hundreds of thousands of acres of valuable range and forest lands are lost through carelessness with fire. Often these lands play a critical part in the production of fish and game. Earth scorched by fire cannot can-not support game animals or birds and siltation from these burned out areas often means the end of fishing in nearby waters. Range and forest conditions throughout most of Utah are tinder dry during the present continuing drought period. Carelessness with fire of any kind can mean the loss of hundreds hun-dreds of acres of productive range lands. It is a time to exercise special spe-cial care as we go afield. Make sure your campfire is cold before be-fore leaving it unattended, break matches before throwing them away, and use your car ashtrays. |