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Show Fires on Forests Show Increase This Year Number of fires on national forests for-ests within the Intermountain region re-gion reached 714 by September 1, an increase of 59 over the same period for 1958. Roughly, 38 of all forest fires in this region are man-caused, resulting re-sulting from such causes as smoking, smok-ing, campfires, debris burning, "fire bugs," and railroad and lumbering lum-bering operations. The other 62. result from lightning. The greatest number of man- i caused fires occurred on the Boise National forest in southern Idaho. Record low in this category was the Teton National forest in Wyoming, Wy-oming, with no man-caused fires. Total acres burned from all causes caus-es were 11,709, more than twice the number for the same period in 1958. The region's largest fires destroyed 4,100 acres on the Toiy-abe Toiy-abe National forest on the Nevada-California Nevada-California border. Fire conditions during most of the summer were the worst in many years because of extreme ! dryness. Over the past few weeks, however, widespread showers have held fires in abeyance. Current weather conditions indicate a less severe fall season and fewer outbreaks out-breaks are expected during this hunting season than last. Even so, foresters throughout the region urge hunters to be extremely careful care-ful with campfires and cigarets. |