Show FISH PLANTING PROGRAM endangered A BY FOREST FIRES A vigorous program of fish planting in national forest waters has been in effect for several years states district forestor forester it 11 11 rutledge go last year for example in ili tile tho intermountain region over four and ono one half million fisli fish were put out work on this scalo requires tho ilia ox PLInd iture or of much time and money find and it Is neither fair to tile sportsman or tho the taxi taxpayer ayer that it should bo be undone forest fires are arc perhaps thu tho quickest and unrest surest means of ruining this labor and also of reducing naturally excellent fishing streams to barren waters after a forest fire tho ilia character of tho ilia mountain streams is on entirely changed from a stream of clear cold anter to a shallow milt muddy 13 wash running with dirty warm water not only is the fishing but tho stream becomes im ablo until years of natural roved ro vegetation a tation restore the original conditions in ili some parts of this ain region abo process of destruction has haa gono gone a sr I 1 tar far that it seems scorns impossible to ro rost nrc choso conditions for years to cuino cuine fires in this region aro are duo due vory very largely to human carelessness especially those that ocher noar near streams for lightning as a rule rula hits tho ilia ridge tops greater caro care Is needed nearly tiros fird wore were caused by human carelessness last year most ot of thorn them in ili tho the rich hunting and fishing land of south ern idaho and western wyoming par too often tho the sportsman himself vaa to blame sate safe fires and fires that were out wore were frequent offend airs as were the smokers with their cigars cigarettes and pipes all forest users must learn tho ilia most particular caro care with fires in dry woods as there la Is an over present danger that thoy they will destroy the fishing ind and hunt lug ing that attracts them to tho the forest to say nothing of tho the destruction of tint her ber itself and tho the watershed cover that paeans so BO much to tho ilia irrigated farms in the valleys below |