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Show CONTROLLED FIRE ON FISHLAKE FOREST Between April 17 and 22 the Beaver Ranger District Dis-trict of the Fishlake National Na-tional Forest control -burned about 350 acres. Three hundred acres were burnt in the oakbrush type to produce more forage that is palatable and nutritious nu-tritious and to reduce fuel loads, and fifty acres were burnt in chained areas to prevent cedars from replacing re-placing the grass. Fire is a very useful tool to maintain and improve im-prove forest conditions. Many of our most palatable palata-ble and nutritious forage plants resprout following fire. Such plants as aspen, snowberry, and perennial grasses,, most forbs, and bitterbrush. Most of this burning was in oakbrush that had cedar and pinyon mixed in. It was largely too tall for deer ' to feed upon. The cedar and pinyon will not resprout ' but by this fall new sprouts of oakbrush will be one to two feet tall. Because of better nutrition, nutri-tion, deer fawn production in California Chaparal increases in-creases by fifty percent for two years following fire. Some consider springthe best time to burn. The fire is easy to control and predict, pre-dict, and does no dam age to root systems. |