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Show Forester Assigned To Dixie Staff Leland H. Carlson, former ranger and topographic engineer, has been assigned to the Cedar City staft of the Dixie National Forest as junior forester, it was announced Monday by Supervisor Albert Albertson. Mr. Carlson has been transfered from the war mapping project at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. There, and earlier at San Francisco and Crescent City, California, he worked work-ed during the war making plan-imetric plan-imetric and topographic surveys for the War and Navy departments for costal defense. The part of the work In which he was engaged covered the surveying of some 6,000 square miles of lands that Include In-clude strategic Goverment oil reserves re-serves In the eastern and western parts of the United States and the virgin redwood timber stands in northern California. Prior to tne mapping work, Carlson was ranger at Manila, Utah, on the Ashley National Na-tional Forest. He has made Important Im-portant recommendations on the Pa;ette and Minidoka National Forests In Idaho. Mr. Carlson is a graduate of the U. S. A. C. from which he holds a B. 8. degree In forestry. The filling of the position meets an urgent need for future planning the utilization of t'mber reFources of the Dixie, Mr. Albert-son Albert-son said. VE day and VJ day were many months away when the Dixie Forest gained prominence among the na-! tlonal forests of Utah and the in-termountain in-termountain region as a leading producer of timber. The annual cut from the forest reached an all time high of 11,000.000 board feet, near-'y near-'y four times the pre-war annual "Ut. The demands of war required the greatest contribution we could make toward early victory, but the wartime rate of cut, which is now only slightly diminished, exceeds ex-ceeds the rate at which timber can be cut from the Dixie on the basis of sustained yield. Timber that Is vital to everyday needs of peacetime peace-time contr.mer!i and a strategic product pro-duct in the future problems of na-ional na-ional defense must be conserved. There is much for us to do to take rare of our forests and make sure that young" ' growth will be coming along as fast as mature trees are rut. The du'ies of Mr. Carlson will be to make inventories of timber in the Dixie, anl to appraise thore Mocks and chances that have manure ma-nure trees ready for harvesting. With the big current demand for timber for housing and industrial use, It is Important that mature stumnage contribute as much as norslble to the present market, but his must be done within the limit "f sustained yield. The most valuable and the great-st great-st amount of tlmberland In the nation li not In Government cwn-rchlp. cwn-rchlp. There has been much ruth-'rsx ruth-'rsx cutting of timber on private Innds. Private owners should be "ncnuraged to rehabilitate such land" and capital'ze on forest con--rrvn'lon as one means of securing secur-ing prosperity and economic stability. sta-bility. Perhaps the future will provide pro-vide public assistance In financing md protection to private growers of timber. Citizens of any locality hive an Important stake In seeing hat tlmberlands are rightly man- j aged wherever they may be located In the nation and regardless of who owns them Timber Is long In the growing but can be grown by ranchers an3 private timber operators oper-ators with profit. Greater effort fhould be made both on Government Govern-ment and private lands to make j lands devoted to the growing of 'timber fully productive. |