Show protection WEEK forest protection week may 22 to 28 has been recently proclaimed by president harding and in ili turn by governor mabey for the state stale ot of utah tor for the purpose 0 of stimulating the interest of every individual citizen in preventing avoidable fires in the national forests human agences agencies were responsible tor for about 80 per cent of the forest fires which occurred in the united states during the past five years and devastated an ared area much greater in extent than that occupied by this entire state ot of utah four out or of five of these fires could have been prevented by care and vigilance on the part of citizens the ashley national forest contains public property in tim timber lier forage etc valued at over thirteen million dollars it also protects the water supply needed by every farmer stockman and homebuilder in this section and has fish and game resources and recreational values t that bat can not bo be estimated in dollars and cents does the average citizen ever stop to think how this basin would fare if if there were no forests in the adjacent mountains no wood to su ply the thousand and one necessities of our domestic and industrial life no forest rover cover to protect the watersheds and regulate the stream flow true no serious fires have occurred on the ashley forest duri during 19 the past few years the forest officers with the help of local residents have been able to control them before they assumed large proportions however no protective system can be fully effective unless the people N sv ho 0 use the forests are arc careful to see that fires do not start avoidably |