| Show SHERIFF fry URGES precautions AGAINST FOREST FIRES continued dry hot weather has lete left utah ranges very susceptible to fires travelers traveler and all home people should be particularly careful of their cigarette butts pipe heels matches and camp and rubbish fires all forest officials warn when fire burns over the foothills vegetation is destroyed and the ranges become vulnerable to flush floods during rain storms thus thu s pel pei the first steps of erosion to set in these fires are hazardous to crops homes and fences and they reduce the humus content of the soil if allowed to hills such fires destroy tim timber ber which has taken hundreds of years to grow to maturity the forester states forest fires throughout the U S ann annually bally burn bum over an area equal to about two thirds the size of the tate of utah the states total area is more than 52 million acres hundreds of fires and burns are visible from the road these have been caused largely through carelessness and thoughtlessness and could be appreciably reduced if every citizen would guard against acts which might start a conflagration sheriff fry should be notified promptly whenever grass and forest foresi fires are spotted dont forget |
