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Show grass, botanists call it Bromus Tectorum, but others call it names nam-es we can't print. It is a pest that rushes in to take the place of better plants killed by fire and abuse. Cheat grass runs a pick-I pick-I up and delivery service for fug-, fug-, Hive fires. It can take fire from a downtown cigarette and deliver i it to the last tree' up the mountain. moun-tain. Firemen of Salt Lake county made 1,000 runs after cheat grass fire in 1948. If U.ali is to be kept green, dry cheat grass and fire must be kept apart. "A fire in hand is worth two in the bush". One fire set to burn out a rattlesnake rat-tlesnake liked the job so much I that it overrun the mountain hunting more rattlesnakes. A discarded cigarette butt blew smoke back into the smoker'j tinti uhi.n it vot th, hiintmu camp on fire. Fire made to smoke a squirrel out of its hole slipped away and burned a hillside. A yellow jacket stung a lineman line-man so lineman set fire to yellow jacket's nest and the burning nest set fire to tange land. Boy with matches in back pocket po-cket slid down large rock. Matches Match-es ignited, singed the boy and started a grass fire. Hot ashes thrown from cabin burned over a watershed. Unexpected wind swept camp fire into grass, burned 17,000 acres. Auto caught fire. No extinguisher. exting-uisher. Fire spread to forest. It takes a lot of vigilance to iCi'ip fire in hand but, "A FIRE IN HANI) IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH". O FIRE DANGER Cheat grass, a sabateur teammate team-mate for run away fire is waving a signal for action. Its dry stems are ready to suck fire out of , burning cigarettes, coax innocent camp fires into the brush or snatch flame from a discarded match. Some people call It June |