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Show Folder details scenic canyon at Flaming Gorge The spectacular Sheep Creek Canyon Geological Area on the Ashley National . Forest in northeastern Utah is the subject sub-ject of a folder just published by the Forest Servce Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Region. The publication combines maps, photos, and text to acquaint ac-quaint visitors with key features fea-tures of the area including camp and picnic grounds. Located near the new Flaming Flam-ing Gorge Dam, the scenic canyon was designated a geological geo-logical area in 1962. Its 3,600 acres take in a fascinating variety of geological formations forma-tions "one of the few places in the world where tourists can cover millions of years in only 15 minutes driving." The geological area is part of the "Drive Through The Ages," Ag-es," and jis cleft by an immense im-mense earth fracture, the Uinta Crest Fault. Sheep Creek itself originates south of the geological area in quart-zite quart-zite uplifts estimated to be 2V billion years old. Among the canyon's interesting inter-esting features are Sheep Creek Cave within its west Creek Cave within its west wall, fossils of early marine animals, and tracks of croco-dile-li k e reptiles. Petrified wood is also found in the area. The folder reports that the Sheep Creek Geological Area is being carefully managed to preserve its unusual characteristics. character-istics. Copies of the folder may be obtained from the Regional Office in Ogden or the Ashley Ash-ley National Forest Supervisor's Supervis-or's Office in Vernal. On Father's Day, small fry and the lady of the house try in many different ways tc show Pop how important he is to them. It's a good reminder that father's health means a lot to his whole family. Everj faher should have a physical examination at regular intervals, inter-vals, the Utah Heart Association Associa-tion states. |