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Show New BLM Official Takes Range Duties Horace E. (Mike) Jones Friday had assumed his new responsibilities responsi-bilities as chief of the range and . forestry division of the Utah state office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Mr. Jones came to Salt Lake City from Miles City, Montana, where he had been BLM district manager for the past five years. He has been employed by BLM or the General Land Office, a predecessor agency of BLM, since August 1941. His first assignment assign-ment was in the branch of field examination in the General Land Office in Billings, Mont. From 1948 to 1954, he was chief of the branch of forestry in BLM Region 3, with headquarters in Billings, and for the next three years was forestry officer in the BLM Montana state office, Billings. Bil-lings. With a major range management, manage-ment, Mr. Jones received a bachelor of science degree in forestry from Montana State University Uni-versity in 1938. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters For-esters and the American Society of Range Management. During World War II, Mr. Jones served from Oct. 1941 to Dec. 1945 in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, attaining the rank of captain. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper A. Jones, he was born in Avery, Idaho. He married Charlestine Overland of Ellisville, Miss., and they have two sons and a daughter: daugh-ter: Dennis, 14; Duane, 12, and Laura, 3. |
