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Show Forest Fire Season For 1916 About Over Reports received at tho Ogden of lice of tho Forest Scrvlco today Indicate Indi-cate that tho tiro season throughout tho Intermountaln National Forests Is practically closed although on two or three forests In tho northeast portion por-tion of tho district tho ground cover Is reported as being vory dry and tho llro danger still somewhat serious. 1 From tho forests of tho Intcrmoun-tnin Intcrmoun-tnin dUtilct, Utah, Novada, Southern Idaho and Southwestern Wyoming, there havo been reported to dato this season a totnl of 211 fires. Of theso ' llrcB, 101 woro confined to areas of ouo fourth ncro or loss; 78 covered from ono fourth to ten ncres; 20 from 10 to 100 acres; 8 from 100 to COO acres; nnd only ono exceeded tho latter lat-ter area. This flro occurred on tho Targhoo National Forest and burned over oiiproximatcly 800 acres of timber tim-ber and open land, causing tho total or partial destruction of about 000,000 foot of green timber. The flro was caused by tho carelessness of a ten year old boy, who was burning brush adjacent to tho forost. Tho total acrcago covered by tho 21 1 fires during tho season amounts to approximately 7.CI0 acres, with a cost to tho Forest Scrvlco, outsldo of tho regularly employed protection force, of $2,613, . Tho Rolso forest, In southern Idaho, Ida-ho, reports n total of 39 fires, tho greatest number of any forest In tho district. Tho Paetto ranks second with 23, tho Sawtooth and Salmon r.icli havo had 22 and tho Welsor 17. Soven of tho 31 forests In tho district dis-trict liao gnno through tho season to dato without a flro. From tho standpoint of tho Forost Scrvlco tho season of 191C has been moro satisfactory than that of tho two or thrco preceding years. Damages Dam-ages and costs of ilro suppression l.avo been hold down to comparatively low figures Practically liulf of nil llica woro discovered and suppressed In their Incipient ntago, while only very fow gained serious proportions. Tho total of 2U starts, a consider- ablo proportion of them caused by human hu-man agencies, Indicates, however, tho ncod for ceaseless effort to socuro greater caro with flro In tho forests on tho part of tho rapidly Increasing numbers of peoplo who uso them. |