Show pire FIRE HAZARD ZA ON F ff WELL INTO THE CRITICAL C ICAL STAGE with continued dry h hot 0 t weather of the past two weeks the ashley national forest has now reached the critical stage in terms of the forest service or extremely dangerous according to max cluff chief clerk of the local office extreme caution must be used by campers fishermen and those who travel through the forest foreit as a careless match campfire or cigarette could start a conflagration which might destroy hundreds of acres of valuable timber and watershed there have been five fires to date on the forest this year according to mr cluff at dowds hole hell canyon White whiterocks rocks racks canyon and potter lake the fire at dowds hole resulted from brush burning and occurred in may the next fires in july one at hell heu canyon in lit the lake fork district was caused by lightning another at whiterocks canyon was the result of a cigarette thrown carelessly into the brush and the third was at potter lake in the manila district caused by a campfire campfire fire lef left t burning on aug cami 2 a lightning ight ning fire was discovered an francis creek in mckee draw all five fires were of a minor nature and none burned an area of more than a quarter of an acre through the quick work of the fire guard rangers and fire fighters during the past few weeks the western states have been ravaged by forest fires this Is the th fire season on western forest and range lands fires in idaho and montana have made head line news and are still burning in accordance with a new forest service regional policy two of the men from the ashley national forest have been detailed to fight large fires in other state states ranger burton 0 clark dark of the fort bridger ranger district has recently returned after three days da s spent fighting a 2500 acre binze braze blaze binze near reno nevada forester robert hoag has been on detail to the boise foreston forest in idaho for or the past week assisting with control 1 work on the large fires burning j there in addition to the assistance these men are arc rendering a secondary purpose of this new regional policy is to give younger forest officers experience in fighting fires when and where they occur so that they will be better prepared to meet emergencies on their own forest it is planned that other ashley personnel will bede be detailed tailed t to large project fires in the near future for training and experience |