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Show Snow Ends Longest ) Forest Fire Season Snow Saturday afternoon ended end-ed one of the longest fire seasons sea-sons in the history of the Ashley Ash-ley National Forest, according to Forest Supervisor Wm. D. Hurst Although the summer j months were wetter than average, av-erage, the fall has been extremely extreme-ly dry with no rain or snow recorded re-corded since September 11. During the season, 13 forest fires have been suppressed bv forest rangers and their crews. Only four of these were started by hunters during the dry hunting hunt-ing season; a condition that en be attributed in large part to the precaution taken by th2 hunters themselves. In the big majority of cases, hunters were extremely careful with their own fires and very alert to a fire threat from another source. Wide publicity given to the forest fire situation by the loc 1 and state press and radio contributed con-tributed immensly to - aid the fire prevention program, Mr. Hurst said. He also praised the efforts of ranchers, stockmen, timber operators and other forest for-est users who discovered many of the fires on the Ashley National Na-tional Forest and. in many cases, cas-es, made the initial attack in suppressing them. |