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Show Fire Danger High Utah State Forester Paul L. Sjoblom announced today that the fire restriction put into effect June 30, 1974, is being amended to include all lands in Cache, Rich and Summit Counties, and was effective Saturday, August 31 at 12:01 a.m. This action extends the fire restriction to include all lands, regardless of ownership, owner-ship, in Utah except lands within the Dinosaur National Nation-al Monument, Canyonlands National Park-and Glen Canyon Can-yon National Recreation area. "This action is necessary because of increasing dryness dry-ness and extreme fire danger dang-er throughout theState," said Mr. Sjoblom. "Dry conditions condi-tions exist even at high elevations, and there is no relief in sight, all agencies are beingcontinually plagued with fires," he added. The amendment to the fire restriction order is being signed by officials of the National Park Service, Bureau Bur-eau of Land Management, UJS. Forest Service and the State Forester. Mr. Sjoblom said the joint cooperative effort ef-fort between the three Federal Fed-eral agencies and State Forestry For-estry has been helpful in keeping fires to a minimum during an extremely hazardous hazard-ous fire season. He commended com-mended the public for complying com-plying with the restriction order. The order prohibits setting open fires, except in facilities provided at campgrounds camp-grounds and picnic areas, or permanently improved places of habitation, or where otherwise authorized by an official of the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, or State fire warden. war-den. Smoking is prohibited, except ex-cept at places of habitation, improved recreation sites, in an enclosed motor vehicle, or on or in a launched waterbourne conveyance, or when on a paved road, or while wading in a stream or at a point where at least an 18 -inch diameter spot has been scraped to mineral soil and such spot is used for depositing ashes and for extinguishing ex-tinguishing smoking materials mater-ials and matches. "With the onset of cooler weather there is even greater great-er danger from campfires and warming fires during the Labor Day weekend and hunting seasons," said Mr. Sjoblom. |