Show FOREST FiRES KILL OFF fiSH I District Forester Points Out Loss to Sportsmen More than 4 fish rel planted in intermountain streams last year by the forest sen service Ice ac- ac according according ac according cording to an announcement mode by District Forester II it H II eThe The work he said requires the expenditure of much time and money and It Is la neither fair to th taxpayer nor the sportsman that It should bo be undone by forest fires which he pointed out are perhaps the quickest and mot most tic effe-tic means of o reducing naturally eul eI e i- i l lent fishing streams to irren b-irren is titers aters After a forest fire he said the character of ot mountain stream I Is changed from streams of ot clear cold water to streams of wal aim i-aim m I muddy water filled with i substances which kill the Iho fish He lie added that not only Is the fishIng ruined but the streams be- be become become be become I come for fish rth for many years and he lie said in some sarno sections sectIon of oC tho the Intermountain territory the the- I destruction has reached SUl suh h a poInt that it seems To fO restore the original conditions for years to comeI come conic I lIe He added that fires tires In the Inter Inter- Intermountain intermountain inter mountain region are duo due largely largel to carelessness especially tho those e that oCCUr near nar streams Fires that are aro caused by lightening he said are almost al always alays ays found to ha have haie e start start- started ed oil along a Il ridge I fires tires were caused by human last icar ear he said sald many of or which were trace traced It to cIgar butts butts and to thu knocking of hot ashes from a sportsmans sportsmans sportsman's pipe The fhe sate safe fires and the fireS I II I that e were out were ero also a r SOUl co Of destruction he said |