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Show Forest Fires Few j Throughout Utah! A considerable drop :.i the r.um-! bcr and destructive-no.-; of Forest' Fires in Utah is noted in reports from a!! supervisors covering the first t . r. days in September just r;cvived by i DUtiict Fone-ter R. II. Putlog.;.' These show that in Utah there have been only r.ine fires upon Nations' 1 Forest land during the period and only 1-1G acres have been burned over. ; Five of these fires occurred on the Ashley Forest north of the Uinta basin. The total for the season in Utah now stands at 70 fires which have burned over 2021 acres of the National Nation-al Forest land. The small acreage-burned acreage-burned over is due primarily to the degree of protection offered by the Forest Service as many thousand acres of public domain have been burned over not only in the mora inaccessible in-accessible regions but even close to the centers of population as in the Oquirrh Mountains and the ranges between be-tween Salt Lake and Ogtien which are not within any National Forest. The reports show that in the entire Intermountain District 102 convictions convic-tions have been secured on account of man-made fires. This is out of a total of 323 fires of this class, a much higher record of convictions than has ever been secured heretofore. While conditions are much improved im-proved in Utah a serious situation still exists in Idaho where during the past ten days there have been 78 new fires which have burned over a total of nearly 5,000 acres. |