Show forest office moves from ephraim to price consolidation ot of the manti and la sal national forests in contral central and southwestern sout utah with new headquarters attrice at was announced today by W B rice regional forester at ogden robert H park present supervisor of the manti mant forest will head the new unit moving this his office from ephraim to price effective immediately the ephraim rangers office together altogether with headquarters of the great basin research center will remain at ephraim the great basin research center is a branch of the intermountain forest and range experiment peri ment station reed W dalley bailey is director of the station only three employees in addition to the supervisor are involved in the transfer ranger offices at mt pleasant and manti are not affected by the moye mr rice said consolidation of the ithe manti and la sal nat national ional forests has been consi considered derea for a number of years studies show that joining the two forests I 1 with a headquarters at i price will increase efficiency and will improve service to a I 1 majority of forest users since closing of the forest supervisors per visors office at moab the la sal unit has been administered by the forest supervisor of 1 the uinta national forest with headquarters at provo I 1 I 1 the manti and la sal forests have a combined gross area of acres with important water forage 41 umber timber and recreation resources |