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Show DonJt Be a 'SMOTORIST',' Save the Forests quest of the nation's armed services, serv-ices, state forestry and conservation conser-vation agencies and the American Amer-ican Red Cross are coordinating with the U. S. Forest Service to make this effort to save our natural resources from fire more effective than ever. Intel-mountain civic and busi-nes busi-nes organizations are urged to get behind the campaign to prevent pre-vent destruction of the forage, timber and water resources that mean life to this region. In the national picture our own fire losses are tremendously tremendous-ly magnified. Yearly fires kill enough timber to build 215,000 five-room houses. Viewing our tremendous wartime needs for timber, forage, and water, every man, woman and child in the Intermountain area is asked to take the success of this wartime forest and range fire prevention preven-tion campaign as a personal responsibility to not only use greater care with fire but to caution others of the extreme necessity to "kill every last spark." The opening of the fourth annual an-nual wartime forest and range fire prevention campaign in this area, in conjunction with the nationwide drive which annually an-nually seeks to allay the tremendous tremen-dous losses of our forested resources re-sources caused by human carelessness, care-lessness, was announced this week by Wrasatch Forest Supervisor Su-pervisor F. C. Koziol. What the "individual citizen can do to prevent destructive forest and range fires will keynote key-note the campaign in this area and bill board posters of the Four Bears sponsored by civic, conservation, and business organizations or-ganizations will appear during the campaign. Each of the four bear's shows one of the four wavs most forest fires are start ed. An analysis of Wasatch forest and range fire records for 1944 showed that "nine out of 10" can be prevented. Out of 21 fires reported by the forest. 21 were man-caused 10 by smok ers, six by campfires. three by railroad trains and two by de bris and rubbish burners. Three were lightning fires. On the Wa satch Front, however, due to the explosive quality assumed by cheatgrass and brush in dry weather, a much larger acreage was burned. Out of 13 fires, six were caused by smokers driving or riding through the highly inflammable country, three were railroad fires, two were debris or rubbish burning, one was a campfire and one started by lightning. Touring smokers (or "smotorists") were responsible for burning '766 of the 929 acres burned on the Wasatch Wa-satch Front watershed. This in eluded the 120-acre Washington Park fire where a valuable plantation plan-tation of young trees was killed. The Four Bears on the posters post-ers make these "smotorists" the particular object of their attention. Three of the bears caution against the thoughtless discarding of matches, cigaret butts and pipe ashes with the fourth bear asking campers to put out their fires. Conducted this year by re |