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Show fire Season Arrives !n Mountain Areas Early summer lightning storms are keeping fire-lighting fire-lighting crews busy this week on the Toiyabe Ntaion-al Ntaion-al Forest in Nevada, and the Salmon, Boise and Fayette Fay-ette National Forests in Idaho. Ida-ho. With eight fires reported today on the Toiyabe National Na-tional Forest and more lightning activities expected, expect-ed, local Reams are receiving receiv-ing help from fire control crews out of Twin Falls, Idaho. Most of the fires are small, with the largest one rc pored at 16 acres. In Idaho, two lightning fires are .reported on the Salmon National Forest, and ten are reported on the Payette Pay-ette National Forest. Fire contrdl officers in the Regional Office at Ogden, Og-den, Utah, report that vegetation veg-etation is still green at higher high-er elevaations throughout most of the Region, but be-ginrfiiTg be-ginrfiiTg to dry out at lower elevations. Vegetation is quite dry in Nevada, where precipitation has been light this season. Robert McBride, chief of the Division of Fire Control and State and Private Forestry, For-estry, Intermountain Region urges the public to use extreme ex-treme ' caution with fire .while ' visiting National Forests For-ests this summer. The best way to stop fire is to prevent pre-vent it from starting in the first place," he said. So far this year in the In-termountain In-termountain Region, 120 Jires have been repoitcd. Of these, 35 were man caused. A total of 400 acres of National Na-tional Forest land has been burned, compared to 150 acres ac-res reported at this time last year. The largest fire reported re-ported in the Region this spring was on the Manti-LaSal Manti-LaSal National Forest in acres of Naional Forest land combined with BLM and ! State land to make a total burn of 609 acres. |