OCR Text |
Show Forest Notes Big Game Notes Assistant Regional Forester C. J. Olsen headed a party of sportsmen, stoc&T.en, retlresentatives of the Biological Survey, and other Forest Service personnel on an inspection of the deer situation in lower Twelve Mile Canyon Monday afternoon. af-ternoon. Mr. Olsen is a. member of the State Board cf Big Game Control. Con-trol. The deer in Twelve Mile Canyon .lave been following up the receding snow line and few have been seen along the road the past few Reeks. T'.iey are apparently subsisting on dry browse, twigs, leaves, and forage for-age from last year's growth. There are appoientiy still some lions in Manti Cao.yon. Ranger Cox recently carre upon a newly killed buck at ti'.e Coitonwoods in the canyon. About the carcass he observed fresh lion tracks. Ski Demonstration Alf Engen and Mrs. Kngen arrived ar-rived in Ephraim on A.lril 20. Mr. Engen is spending a week on the Manti Forest looking over possibilities possibil-ities for winter sports. In company ft'ith Rangers Thursby and Cox he has surveyed possible ski areas in Ephraim, Manti, and Twelve Mile Canyons. A few ski enthusiasts on Sunday accompanied him to Blue Bell Flat in Ephraim Canyon, where he demonstrated some of the finer points of skiing. Mr. Engen has offered to stay for next Sunday, A;iril 30, and make another demonstration demon-stration at Blue Bell Flat. A younger brother will probably come down from Salt Lake for the occasion oc-casion and participate in the exhibition. exhi-bition. This should be a treat for ski enthusiasts in Sanpete County, it is expected that the Ephraim-Orangeville Ephraim-Orangeville Road will be cleared of snow to Blue Bell Flat by that date so that cars equipped with chains can be driven to the area. The public is invited to witness the demonstration next Sunday. WPA Fence Construction Ranger Thursby reports the com-J'.etion com-J'.etion of cne and three-quarters miles of fence along the Forest boundary north of New Canyon. This fence will aid in the management manage-ment of both, permitted and private pri-vate land sheep in Coat section. T.ie fence was constructed by the 20-man WPA crew in one ten-day work period. Etks Winter On Forest Ranger Anderson recently discovered dis-covered that four cows :o.iu wintered winter-ed in t ae Hcrse Creek country in II j.otington Canyon. They appeared appear-ed to te in fairly good condition for all the long months In -the 5tow bcuiad Canyon. Ximbir Sale The Oic:i Brothers of Price are r.ow cutting timber from the burned ! area in Horse Creek. This ti. Tiber is being hauled cut of the canyon; to t.'.eir mill in Price. Most of it1 is being sawed into ties. CCC Activities ! A crew of CCC eiirollees from the Divsion of Grazing Camp at Castle Cas-tle Dale is working on the Ottosen Hollow trail leading to the Forest boundary. Dave Tuttle is in charge of another crew from, this camp Allien is working in the timber at the head cf Lowry Water. This crew is getting out material for troughs and bridges which will be located cn the East Desert. One hundred i.men have arrived at CarrtJ F-39 to replace boys whose period of enrollment recently recent-ly expired. The new enrcllees come ircn Alab3,ma, Louisiana and Mississippi. Miss-issippi. Alter spending several months working on winter sports areas and reads in Manti Canyon, the CCC erollees have moved their machinery machin-ery back to Twelve Mile Canyon, Here work will be resumed on the read and on range improvement projects. Camp F-39 has imtaintained the Manti, Six Mile and Twelve Mile Canyon Roads to the snow line, llident Campaign Mapped: Mr. V. L. Johnson of the Bureau of Biolcgical Survey was an office visitor during the past week. While here Mr. Johnson discussed the lOdent control campaign for the Manti Forest during the earning sunuxei'. |