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Fire season.

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‘starts ree 15

British _ Columbia’s Six- “In reporting, it will assist -
month forest fire season goes the ministry staff if the caller, |
into force April 15 and. provides the following in-

- Forests Minister Tom formation:

Waterland : has asked the

general. public: and forest

‘industry to team up with his 1 . Seen Oo

ministry’s fire management i. Location of the fire 7

forces to make 1 a : . 4 ,
: 2. What is burning — trees,

bannery car for fire control. rangeland, buildings, etc.

for protection of the forests. 3. if 1 mmyone is. taking
-strictions on open burning ntrol action
in| forested areas will come
. into effect: for the season. 4, Hf the fires spreading.”
~Except in. periods of high 7
hazard, these restrictions do “At the same time, the

not normally apply to mare we of fre = the
campfires.

forests.

“In the 67 years since the
Forest, Service was formed,
mans setvies have toon Sirs flowdclonsy ty
responsible for two-thirds of

campfire users. “In nature,.
.our forest wildfires, so it is
obvious that man has it omy lightning causes Mmore-—

fires than these two
within his own power to.
réduce. this annual E entable results of human

Sestruction of our forest activity,” he said.
resources,” Wateriand s2id.

Smokers are the greatest

In 1978, for example, even

“ . +, though the percentage of
And when: he can't , A

_ prevent them, he can report. lightning-caused fires was far

them —-an-early report can__ 2DOve average, smokers and
make all the difference “canfite e er
between a small fire that ‘"SPO"S! r more
takes a few firefighters PET, cent of the 2,308
scien to tnt io cite Mae,
control, and a holocaust that B.C's fo: > and killed
could take hundreds of 3-C-'s forest land ar
firefighters, using a fleet of nearly 5 million cubic metres _
air tankers and masses’ of of merchantable timber, of |
ground equipment, up to which oy a one-fifth
several weeks to subdue. .

“Asa matter of fact, the “Common sense and care

are the main requirements
general public haste on mos’ __for putting an end to this sort
~ cooperative” in regard of needless waste,” the _

and in recent years hasbeen  jiinicter said. “It's th the “<

THESE HAPPY ALLIGATORS from Monchenod Catcmmaiee Schad akc ine off tn aduaive their Alltentee Ple at
| nas tna than a effort. After all, the forests the Robson Medix Centre where they and their school won 100 books during the National Book Week festivitics. .
third of reports belong to the same people . -(Ian Smith photo)
protection forces have sat use them.” : ;

received. : _ ee

“This year I urge the oa ;

public to make every effort

to beat even this outstanding
record by immediately
reporting any fire sighting to

the nearest Ministry of -—
Forests office or by calling

the toll-free number Zenith ~
5555.

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