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Show USE OF NATURAL FOREST GROWS Increased Appropriation and Mere HELP NEEDED Receratlonal use of the Wasatch National Forest has grown so fast that the present force of forest rangers ran-gers Is entirely Inadequate, ae equate, according to Supervisor A. O. Nord, who with Assistant Supervisor Su-pervisor Blaine Betenson Is now in conference with C. N. Woods and Dana Parkinson from the Regional Forester's office at Ogden, Utah. The pressur of grazing work, timber sales, road and trail construction, con-struction, range Improvements, and so forth has left the rangers only from l to 14 days annually for handling over 128000 campers, tourists, tour-ists, and other pleasure seekers who visit these mountain play grounds. Additional help for Cottonwood Cot-tonwood Canyon, Mill Creek Canyon, Can-yon, the Mount Tlmpanogas region, Mirror Lake region, Provo River region and for Granddaddy Lake Lakes Is badly needed. Recreational use on the Wasatch Natlonul Forest Is greater than for any national forest of the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain region but funds available avail-able for such work are being reduced reduc-ed although the work Increases. The unemployment situation, the trend toward shorter working day, the Increase in leisure time, and the vast sums expended on roads all point toward even greater use ol mountain receratlonal areas. The Forester has urged Congress to recognize and provide for handling handl-ing this situation. Until this is done the canyons and mountain playgrounds play-grounds tributary to Salt Labs and other Utah communities cannot be properly-' cared for or developed. Regional Forester R. H. Kutledge, however, Is endeavoring to furnish extra help for the Wasatch Forest this year at the expense of other work as he believes the urgency fully Justifies this move. He recog-nntzes recog-nntzes fully, however, much more help Is needed. |