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Show U. S. Forest Service Issues Fire Warning Forest Supervisor Jack B. Shumate announced today that a prolonged drying trend has resulted in increased wildfire wild-fire danger in Southern Utah. High winds and low relative humidities have created extreme ex-treme fire danger in the sagebrush sage-brush pinyon-juniper vegetative vegeta-tive types. The frost that hit Southern Utah in late June damaged the forbes and grasses grass-es in the upper elevations. The frost, combined with little lit-tle or no rainfall, has resulted In the rapid drying out of the ground fuels at all elevations. eleva-tions. Unless the normal late July-August rains occur, we expect to have increased wildfire wild-fire problems, Mr. Shumate stated. To date, the Dixie National Forest has had 20 fires. Most of the fires have been controlled control-led at less than five acres. However, on July 3 a fire, pushed by high winds, consumed con-sumed 1500 acres of brush-type brush-type near Central, Utah. Several Sev-eral thousand dollars were spent to control the fire. Residents are cautioned a-gainst a-gainst the indiscriminate use of fire. Debris burning during high winds is not recommended. recommend-ed. Burning permits are needed need-ed during the period June 1 to October 30. Permits can be obtained from the County Sheriff or local District Ranger. Ran-ger. Camping or warming fires should be properly constructed con-structed and attended. Fireworks Fire-works are not permitted on the forest and grasslands of Utah. The fire control organizations organiza-tions of the State of Utah, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and U. S. Forest Service hope residents resi-dents enjoy the scenic wild-lands wild-lands of Utah, but ask that each resident be prudent in his use of fire when he ventures ven-tures afield. |