Show Kamas Community Is Featured in Flattering New York Story Kamas was given recognition In InThe InThe inThe The New York Times Sunday I Aug 16 In an article titled Utah Road is Outdoor Classroom for tor Tourists Written by Jack Goodman Goodman Good Good- man the following la is a reprint of the article KAMAS UTAH UTAH This This tiny h lum m. m bering boring and ranching community of souls has a new tl tion n. n State Route ISO the only paved road leading east and north from town has been designated a multiple use highway by the United States Forest Service It Itla ItIs ItIs Is la one of four such highways Inthe Inthe In Inthe the nation By driving 80 scenic miles between be tween here and nd Evanston Wyo vac now enjoy a self guided tour of ot a typical national forest During It they can study what the Forest Service terms its tte administration of or water timber forage wildlife habitat and recreation Obviously this lengthy description description tion Is la likely to frighten non non- scholars Into another part ot or the forest However as taking the tour are learning It 13 rs ISI painless and In tact highly pleas I ant What the rangers have done isto Is 18 Isto to provide an outdoor classroom In the form torm ot or an exceptionally well marked highway Between observing multiple use demonstrations demonstrations demon and pilot study sites altes for integrated development and use of basic basto renewable resources the visitor can enjoy camping fishing boating hiking riding and taking picture The learning process in n this cla classroom sro m I U le quite effortless Soon after atter beading heading eastward from Kamas the visitor gets his first lesson at the hatchery of the Utah Department of Fish and Game The fishery raises to native and Eastern I brook trout fingerlings each season season sea sea- son In Its concrete pools Then the fish Ush are put In lakes lake t traver raver sed sed by Route The fIngerlings are dropped In I to isolated lakes from low flying planes while pan pan- size pan rainbows I t are delivered by truck loads loads- to lakes just off the highway Six miles mUes from Kamas the road begins threading Beaver BeaverCreek BeaverCreek Creek Natural Arboretum In a sector of about eight square miles mUes rangers have identified and labeled labeled label label- ed most native species of shrubs and trees found In Utah This por par tion of the tour helps familiarize newcomers with Western colt ers erSt the white holed quaking as AJ pen stream willows box elders e cottonwoods and oU other r typical cover over Organized recreation within the forest boundaries la Ja demonstrated at Soapstone 14 U miles mUes ben beyond d Kamas There a YMCA camp a p with log cabins vacations tor for youngsters fro from the sidewalks of ot Salt Lake City 48 miles from Kamas In addition a model camp camp campground campground ground near Dear Soapstone his picnic trailer CraUer parking and tent sites for 45 camping tourists tornata Close at hand but hidden In 11 dense foliage a group Of ot summer dwellings is III owned by bl Western Western- ere era who posses pOISe National Forest j use special permits Booklets BookIe t. t and aDd signposts point out that the tho cab cab- ins lins must conform to strict Fed 1 Continued on Gel Neat heat t New York Story I Continued rage ag 1 era eral regulations regulation as to sanitation and and appearance Just Jud above Soapstone visitors visitor spot Hereford toM cattle grazing on the meadowlands In the spring and autumn motorists may be slowed by flocks of ot sheep being driven to or from high grass lands The Ranger District supervises ranchers in order to prevent and d depletion of ot soil Boil arid add watershed coVer About 1600 1500 cattle and anI sheep share hare the woodlands and grasslands grass lands with mule deer elk moose black bear and cougar Deer are about the only onty big wilderness animals that most motorized mo will wilt spot although al al- though beav beaver r coyote fox tox bobcat badger marten mink weasel squirrel muskrat and cottontail rabbits were counted in the most recent census About 18 mites miles from Kamas Kaman swerving northward motorists spot an expanse of at gray shale This acre or so i is 16 at the mouth of the six six mile mile Duchesne Tunnel whose purpose Is to diVert divert di dl vert the Duchesne River to the Provo River whence it flows west went toward Deer Creek Reservoir to Salt Lake City's water supply I The ugly shale rock and muck have piled plied up outside outs the tunnel I entrance because no provision w was s made in the work contracts to dispose of ot the material that was dug and blasted from the bore Water Falls Falla Following the Provo Route to Milepost I t 24 where there is Ie a series of ot waterfalls about 70 feet teet high These are the Upper Provo falls faUs a picturesque I cascade that Is bordered top and bottom by trout pools I six miles farther tarther up the high way lies Trial Lake This gem gemot of ot a fishing hole Is about abort a half halt mile mUe In diameter and is raised I by a small dam at its outlet Periodically a water master I 1 visits Trial Lake Lak and ind and others t nearby near near ar by hr gauges their thelt levels and re- re t teases Ue water t for r e cattle Irrigation orchards and nod the dwellers city far tar down downstream Four Fout rivers assemble assem bi ble here h hereabouts re touts outs the Weber Provo Bear Deat and Duchesne All h have ve similar sources I In the vicinity of ot Trial Lake and Its Us roadside neighbors the forest orest Service displays one more moret of t its He mul use lp eu use e aspects aspect Urn tim her bet harvesting This 1 is fj not Um-I Um bigtree bigtree big tree country but the Wasatch I Forests stands of ot spruce are fairly fair tall ly ty exten extensive lve I By ny scientific timber cruising rangers have set the permissible annual yield at five million board feet teet or enough to build wooden wood wood- en homes Cutting Is Ie permitted only In carefully specified areas Timber Area I At present lumbermen work on ona ona ona a yield sustained basis with trucks hauling timber to Kamas only as fast tast as the management can plant replacements clear in infected In areas reseed or oi contour eroded land and otherwise insure against depletion Vacationers may see a or two and watch an occasional pine being felled I IThe The country becomes progressively progress progress- ively more beautiful and primitive primi five tive as ne one moves higher up the slopes elopes of ot the at Milepost 29 a sign identifies Identities the he streams entering the Provo drainage system system tem tern far tar below At the highways highway's high point miles from Kamas the pavement pave pave- pave 1 ment reaches feet teet above sea level This opens a a. series of ot views into the High UInta Primitive I Area Area which no road enters i 1 I This acre primitive enclave en en- clave cave was established by the Forest Forest For For- est Service In 1931 however unlike un tn like the Wasatch National Forest For For- est eat acreage pierced by Route it will remain forever t I The primitive area stretches eastward to embrace foot Kings Peak highest in Utah It Includes hundreds of turns and lakes and can be crossed cross cross- ed only on foot or horseback It Itis ItIs Itis is in effect a single purpose forest for for- est st a perpetual wilderness t National Forest ForestI I 1 However the adjoining Wasatch Wasatch Was Was- atch National Forest contains some fair substitutes for tor sheer wilderness The pavement roaches reaches reach roach es Mirror Lake at Milepost where a sturdy old fashioned lodge serves hearty meals and provides comfortable beds for tor dudes There are saddle horses for tor hire plus rowboats bait and tackle i Hayden Peak tallest in the ra ranger iter district looms feet teet high on the skyline helping to form torm the divide between the Colo Cola rado River and Great Oreal Salt Lake Late drainage systems 1 I Fishing and loafing at Mirror Lake Lodge aro ate goals goats enough for tor I I some vacationers Others may wish to press on to the finish ot of their paved pared F Forest t st S Service trl clAM room I JIlt Point I The special signs sign end 43 miles from Kama Kam iJ at a II spot spot labeled I 1 I I Bear near River Historical Point i 1 From this s spat Mountain Men moved down the flea Deal t to td Bear Dear Lake n near at wh what t Is now the Utah Utah- Idaho Idaho Wom Wyoming Idaho Wyoming ng line They then entered the Cache Cathe Valley tot for a aI I d look at the Great salt gait Lake in a period of ot exploring that aided considerably h the e n nt of ot California the and the Mormon country L Later t l' l a 8 series of ot timber t towns flourished here her centering around lumber camps now marked only by Abandoned flumes and charcoal kilns kilos Logs sped to the Wyoming Wyoming- line Une along a bygone 2 flume nume at a ft clip cUp of ot 15 miles an hour bout Nowadays on good pavement th the 1 can l leave ave the forest torM at a n mile mlle gait react re C ng Wyo and transcontinental US U.S. 30 in little more mote th than b half halt an hour providing his path is not block blocked d by a few tew thousand tho sheep |