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Forest Fire Report
' The sixteen-county Northern Piedmont District of the Virginia Division of Fort ,try reports that 525 forest fires have burned 2718 acres of forest land since Januar. 1. 1959. In Rappahannock Coun v the 5 fires which were report?!' destroyed 27 acres of timberhnd.
For the spring months,' tin’s ha, been the largest number of firej , reported in’the District since 1943.' -rThe heavy growth of last .vea-’s vegetation, the lack of rainfall at
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