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Show BLM Appoints Cyril Jensen As Asst. Director Appointment of Cyril Jensen as Assistant State Director of the Bureau of Land Management in Salt Lake City was announced this week by the Department of the Interior. In his new position Mr. Jensen, a career federal employee, will assist the Utah State Director, R. D. Nielson, in the administration of the national land reserve in Utah. This administration includes in-cludes such important aspects of resource management as watershed water-shed protection, grazing, wildlife, wild-life, recreation, forest management manage-ment and development of mineral min-eral resources. The Bureau of Land Management is responsible for the survey, classification, management and disposition of more than 24 million acres of public land in Utah. Mr. Jensen, born in Grover, Wyoming, has been associated with public land management for more than 23 years. He grew up on a ranch and spent several summers with the Forest Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Ag-riculture. He began his career with the Department of the Interior In-terior in 1939 when he became a foreman with the Civilian Conservation Con-servation Corps in Kemmerer, Wyo. In following years he has successively responsible positions in the Bureau of Land Management, Manage-ment, including range and forestry for-estry officer for an area encompassing encom-passing Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, North and South Dakota and Kansas. His present position is that of chief, Branch of Range Studies, Division Divi-sion of Range Management. Mr. Jensen attended the University Uni-versity of Wyoming in Laramie, and received a degree in Range Management from Utah State Agricultural College in Logan. His new job as Assistant State Director will begin July 16 in Salt Lake City. He plans to move his wife and two of their chil-Idren. chil-Idren. One son is studying for a doctorate in psychology and another an-other son was graduated this year from Brigham Young University. Uni-versity. Man is not made for defeat. Hemingway. You are never so near to victory vic-tory as when defeated in a good cause. Beecher. |