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Show Forest Clean-up Starts On East Fork Slash burning in the East Fork area of the Beaver River will begin this week. A timber sale there on the National Forest For-est lands involving nearly one million board feet of lumber is nearing completion, and the slash disposal job is underway. During the summer a crawler type tractor with a specially constructed slash blade has piled pil-ed the logging slash into long wind-rows to better facilitate burning. Several inches of snow is on the ground in the area and burning can iww be done safely. safe-ly. The Forest porsonell wish to thank everyone for having been so careful with fire this summer. sum-mer. Due to the care everyone had for the Forest this summer there has been a relatively low fire year and much fire has been averted. Well controlled fires have a place but wild fires destroys watersheds, timber, wildlife and rangelands. |
