Show protect 1 I 0 hect forests your property chaperone your bui Isi smokes nokes while in ill the forest and condemn your aima fires to it watery arn grave veto mp given july 1 for week end iid by john N kinney of ogden chief of tiro fire control operations for the intermountain region of the forest verv iee i tile tho double holidays two and three day weekends week ends enas are eagerly awalter by and per ailt longer trips to remote and out of the way places lit in the national forests but too often in the wake ot of the smoker and careless camper come the spectacular but tragic billows of smoke on the horizon that moro more eloquently than the fire truck siren tell a story of forest fires in tho the mountains and forest visitors look upon their trips in terms of rest play and number of fish in the creel but to foresters it la Is a matter of fire risk suppression expenses ses and losses in watersheds and timber if our forest guests are not careful with fire tho the forester said i while the danger lit in the higher country Is normal or better the lower grassy regions tire are like a powder keg the rank growth of grass and vegetation now dry following two weeks of hot weather represent a risk not only to the foothill forests tut fut to farm improvements prove ments haying operations and livestock the carelessly tossed cigarette or match Is a sure way to start a damaging tion hon especially critical grass tire fire conditions exist adjacent to the ca cache alic wasatch and uinta forests lit in utah and Mini dolca boise PRY pay otto atto and welser forests in idaho idabo the present forest fire seas season on in the forests has been favorable with few fires being reported none being very dam aging ngang in character twenty four tires fires bur burned n e d in the foras foresta ts so far this season 15 being man inan caused while 0 9 were started by lightning eighteen acres of tim berlands have ten heen aam |