Show carelessness WITH FIRE EN DANGERS recreation that human carelessness is endangering public recreation on the national forests district forester R H rutledge this Is shown by an incident which occurred last week when J A knox and wm win P hart Hirt ot of boise left a camp fire ln in a dangerous location while on a fishing trip along the state highway on the fork ot of payette river canyon between banks anti and smiths ferry idaho this firo fire was located by state fire warden A F counrod and mr 11 II C secretary ot of the south idaho timber protective association who overtook them in an automobile and required them to bevurn rel urn immediately med lately to the firo fire dad and thoroughly extinguish it A hearing in the ho case was held at noise boise may 21 As a rei suit the U S commissioner felt that the defendants had been careless I in tailing failing to extinguish their tire fire and they were bound over to tho the U IS S court which will convene at boise september 8 such carelessness as this Is particularly rep at this time when the ithe woods are perhaps drier than ihan they they have been at this time ot of the year since white men came into the glon if such carelessness cannot be lured trough orough public education the forester has authorized forest sup to exercise drastic regulations suited stilted to the needs of the on their different forests regulations which will interfere arc tily with the usual freedom ot of and upon iho national forests itt in regions of ex i nc are aire haza rl it i li ij the camping and building camp fires may lot be allowed except on permit and nibling may be entirely prohibited within national Po forests rests it is far baljer liell er says mr BIT rutledge that the public should be inconvenienced to a certain degree one year than that ils recreational areas should be turned into barren wastes for many years the best of all however would be uch tich a keen appreciation ot of the situa baloon that there would be no need to tear fear tor for the fire caused by human beings fires which now amount to about halt half the total number suffered in nacional Nai ional forest of the Inter moun tain region each year |