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Show Fire restrictions leveled throughout the entire state State Forester Paul L. Sjoblom announced today that use of fire will be restricted on most private, State and Federal land in Utah. A joint restriction order, which will become effective at 12:01 a.m., June 30, has been signed by officials of the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, U. S. Forest Service and the State Forester. Restrictions on open fires and smoking will be enforced throughout the State, except in the northeastern counties of Cache, Rich, Summit and Daggett, and those portions of Uintah, Duchesne and Wasatch Counties lying north of U. S. 40, and those lands within Canyonlands National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Because of the extreme fire hazard caused by highly flammable flam-mable fuels and a continuing drought condition, the order will prohibit setting open fires, except in facilities provided at cam pgrounds and picnic areas, or permanently improved places of habitation, or where otherwise authorized bv an official of the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, or State fire warden. Smoking also will be prohibited, except at places of habitation improved recreation sites, in an enclosed motor vehicle, or on or in a launched waterborne conveyance, or when on a paved road, or while wading in a stream, or at a point where at least an 18-inch-diameter spot has been scraped to mineral soil and such spot is used for depositing ashes and for . ex-r ex-r tinguishing smoking materials and matches. State Forester Sjoblom joined the three Federal officials in urging the public to comply with the restriction order, thus helping to prevent fires that could destroy valuable natural resources, developments and possibly lives. |