Show HUNTERS URGED TO BE VERY CAREFUL WITH FIRE THIS YEAR A combination of prolonged dry weather and low humidity with freezing and curing of the vegetation at high altitudes has produced a critical fire hazard throughout the intermountain watershed lands A gre great t risk of fire is now coming up with the annual deer hunt and hunters hunters hunters hunt hunt- ers are being urged to take all precautions to prevent a range fire The deer hunt will see an unorganized unorganized unorganized un un- un- un organized army of perhaps people leaving their jobs and homes and going after a deer Many of them see the I deer hunt as as a great escape from the trials of everyday life and often fail to use good judgment in many things including fire prevention t tA A good hunter of course re realizes realizes realizes re- re that the protection of the range is the guarantee of fu future future future fu- fu ture hunting Hunting ranges cannot hold up if scorched by fire and the game herds cannot hold up on poor ranges Statistics for national forests in the intermountain region show a gradual downward trend for man-made man fires since 1940 The Regional Forester tells that experience in fire prevention bythe bythe by bythe the Forest Service has shown conclusively that forest fires can be prevented and that prevention prevention prevention tion pays big dividends to every body As we come to the end emd of Fire Prevention Week proclaimed proclaim proclaim- ed by President Truman for October October October Oc Oc- Oc- Oc tober 5 11 sportsmen stockmen forest officials lumbermen and andall andall andall all others interested in the forest forest forest for for- est lands join in asking hunters hunter I to be careful with fire during the deer hunt 0 |