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Show Davenport Draw Forest Fire is Out Forest Supervisor Earl C. Sanford reports that the Davenport Daven-port Draw forest fire, which burned approximately 600 acres has been suppressed and the firefighters released. This fire forcibly brings to the attention of all the necessity of using extreme care with fire when in the national forest. The damage wrought by a forest for-est fire is well nigh incalculable in terms of dollars and cents. When the first damage has been done the real destruction has just begun. In forestry, the present pres-ent crop of timber is not the only thing to deal with, but generations genera-tions of little trees yet to come must be considered; also, the forage conditions as they will be next year, the year after, and for many years after that. Finally, Fin-ally, the earth itself on the burned-over areas must be considered. con-sidered. In this region of irrigated irrigat-ed farms the value of the timber and forage is by no means the geratest of all the values the forest for-est possesses. The irrigation water, wa-ter, the very life blood of Uintah Uin-tah Basin, depends upon the proper covering of the watersheds. water-sheds. Destroy the forest, and the irrigated farming, together with the visible timber and forage for-age is destroyed. Utah is now experiencing one of the longest periods of drought in its history. As a result the forest for-est cover is extremely dry and inflammable. Supervisor Sanford San-ford states that if all persons entering en-tering the national forest will observe the following precautions, precau-tions, man-caused forest fires may be held to a minimum: 1. Be sure your match is out. Break it in two before you throw it away. 2. Don't throw pipe ashes and cigars or clearette butts out of your car window. Use the ash tray. Don't throw ashes or butts carelessly on the ground when in the forest, but instead pinch them out and stamp them into the bare earth. 3. Build a small camp fire in the open, not against a tree or near brush. Scrape away trash from all around it. Never leave a camp fire, even for a short time, without quenching every spark, or burying It In mineral 4. If you find a fire try to cut it out. If you can't, get word at once to the nearest Forest Ser vice employee. |