Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-26 | Page 10 | Forest Fire Guards Ready

FOREST FIRE OKREADY Men This Year in Better Shape to Protect Tree Areas Forest service fire guards on both the Welser and the laaho national forests that recently completed courses In the training amp are in better condition earlier !n the season to give a good account of themselves in protecting pro-tecting the forest from and in fighting fight-ing fires than In many years past, according ac-cording to Assistant District Forester C. B Morse who returned last night from the Bourh fork of the Salmon river where the training camp was established. es-tablished. The guards were given practical training along the lines of actual obstacles ob-stacles that would he encountered In fighting fires and In making the necessary ne-cessary Burv'eya and installing telephone tele-phone lines. assistant pistrldt Forester Biorsi said that economic conditions in Idaho were stcrulll on the mend vlth excellent ex-cellent fruit crops tinder way. heavy hay and grain crops and stockmen optimistic op-timistic about the outlook In that Indus! In-dus! r Fishing In the Idaho streams la fair, he said, because of "the water still being be-ing muddy. , He was told by George 11 Isaac, Idaho Ida-ho state 1 1 h commlsloner that there had been planted last year In the streams 13.0OO.00U fry and flngerllnfS and that a larger amount would be planted this year. TVie fish arc being taken from the hatcheries located at Ashton, Hay Spur. Sand Point and iCoeur d Alene, Idaho. I oo