Show FOREST FIRE AND G M E 00 Game Came hogs hogs- Poachers persistent nt e violators of our ram game laws las are universally universally uni nr ally detested de and when n apprehended he oded ar are dealt dult Yo with ith as aI they the deserve deserve de serve through our laws states slates R. R II II H. Rutledge district forester orester o of the U is w. w district in di cussing g forest protection week which accordIng according accord accord- ing to a proclamation recently issued Issue d by President Coolidge is to be observed ob ob- ed served April 27 21 this year jear ar Mr Rutledge Rutledge Rut Rut- ledge goes got on to point out that th the theman thenan e man nan who sets seta or carelessly leave leans s fires burning is fully as culpable a athe as s the the violator o of the game In laws s for fo or oror r forest or est fires are a continual menace to the propagation and preservation do doof n of game upon the National forests While it is true that the larger animals ani mals coals in which the sportsman is primarily marily manly interested as the deer elk etc are usually able to escape fro from m all aB but the most destructive of fires fire s the whole result of a fire lire is unfavorable unfavorable able to game conservation Ite It de de- de the e cover coter in which the animals anima is hide and breed it destroys immense immens e quantities of feed Kd and it upsets the th e whole general balance o of nature Th The s smaller animals and th the e fur bearing animals are not so ao o fortunate fortu nate as their larger Jarger and hundreds hundreds hun hun- hundreds and perhaps thousands of these then e are killed annually in the forest fir fires lirt'S es which run over the forests of the in in- region on account o of f careless human beings Fires during grouse nesting nesting- 8 season are especially e to these birds as the mothers moth ers era will often sit lilt on their nests until and they and their unhatched eggs orand orand or orand and they they- and their unhatched eggs it is too late to escape from rom the flames or small email are utterly wiped out by what may Appear to be a fire of small proportions It is probable that sportsmen and campers campen in the forests orests appreciate the beauty of the forests and the presence of game in them more than than any any other class class' of people At the same time statistics show how unfortunately that these thelle very ery people are responsible for 35 per cent of the forest fires res with which the forest service has had to cope cop with upon the National for or eats ests Intentional fires in the entire region are arf fortunately w extremely rare but carelessness with fire ire in the forests Is far ar too prevalent preys preva lent and is i destroying exactly what tilt tie people go into the forests forest to enJoy enjoy enjoy en en- joy to the fullest extent |