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Show Forest Fighting A smoker's fire caused by a fisherman rapidly spread through trees browse, and grass on the Carter Creek drainage of the Ashley National Forest, Thursday afternoon. Detection" of the smoke by Buell Bennett at the Ute Mountain Moun-tain Lookout, as soon as it was visible above the tree tops, allowed al-lowed Ranger Leslie Taylor to promptly dispatch men from Manila and place it under control con-trol after it had burned over approximately ap-proximately five acres. Approximately Approxi-mately 150,000,000 ft. board measure of ponderosa pine saw-timber saw-timber was endangered by this smoker's fire. "Extreme caution will need to be exercised by forest visitors in order to prevent man-caused fires during the remainder of the fire season", states Ona A Harrison, Har-rison, Forest Supervisor. Fishermen or other recrealion-ists recrealion-ists should smoke only in safe places and camp fires should be entirely extinguished before they are abandoned, as cheat grass and other inflamable material ma-terial is exceptionally dry and will burn readily. "The devastation by fire of a large area of important watershed water-shed in Carter Creek was no doubt prevented because of the prompt detection of snioke, accessibility ac-cessibility of the area to motor equipment, and the excellent cooperation co-operation received from organized organ-ized fire fighters in the Manila vicinity", says Mr. Harrison. |