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Show GUARDING UTAH FORESTS FROM fire;, huge job From a humble beginning in f&37 the .battle of protecting Utah watersheds and forests from fire has grown into a $70,000 a year project handled by the state and federally recognized Utah state board of forestry and fire control, John E. Burt Jr., deputy state forester and fire warden, and Don M. Drummond, assistant state forester, reported Monday. "Results in the form of cooperative cooper-ative agreements with counties, financial reimbursements from the federal government and a growing public understanding of problems involved in protection o watersheds and forests are now evident," said the board executives execu-tives at a quarterly meeting in Covey's New America Coffee shop, 534 S. Main. Utah counties joining in the cooperative co-operative federal-state-county a-greements a-greements contributed $49,140 and received $9,000 in refunds under the fire prevention and suppression suppres-sion program covering 4,371 500 acres of Utah lands this year," explained ex-plained Mr. Burt. Exclusive of the county contributions, contri-butions, the state spent $29,210. More than 70 of the money was spent for fire prevention, including includ-ing educational enterprises, and the remainder for fire suppression and administration expenses, explained ex-plained the officials. The Utah state board of forestry fores-try and fire control, which ' was activated by the 1941 legislature, launched the operation in 1942. The present program is composed of representatives of the following follow-ing agencies: State department of agriculture, state finance commission, Utah State Agricultural college, state fish and game department Utah Woolgrowers' Assn., Utah ' Horse and Cattle Growers' Assn., Utah Water Users' Assn. and Utah State Farm Bureau. |