Restrictions In Effect At Area Wildernesses With continuing extreme temperatures and drying vegetation at higher elevations, the Deschutes National Forest in coordination with the Willamette National Forest will implement public use restrictions within five wildernesses beginning tomorrow morning. Effective 12:01 a.m. Friday, July 2, open fires, including wood stoves and charcoal briquette fires, will be prohibited in all designated Wildernesses on the Deschutes National Forest. These wildernesses include the Mt. Jefferson, Mt. Washington, Three Sisters, Diamond Peak and Mt. Thielsen. Under the public use restrictions, smoking also is prohibited unless in an area at least three feet in diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable material. These public use restrictions are added to those that began last Friday on the Deschutes National Forest, which had excepted these wildernesses.