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Show PARLEY MADSEN RETIRES FROM FOREST SERVICE Forest Ranger Parley C. Mad-sen Mad-sen will retire at the end of the present week after more than 35 years of service, and plans to make his home in Springville. Ranger Madsen first entered the forest service during the summer of 1906 as a forest guard on the Uinta National forest. At the end of that year he was promoted to assistant ranger serving on the Uinta until 1908, when he was transferred to the Ashley National Nation-al forest on the Wyoming slope. In 1912 he was promoted to forest ranger and 1916 was transferred back to the Uinta forest with headquarters at Heber. During the last 25 years he has had charge of several districts having had headquarters at Heber and Springville. Ranger Madsen is one of the old-timers in forest service ser-vice work, having started when a ranger was largely without equipment equip-ment and had to depend on his own initiative, judgment, and resourcefulness re-sourcefulness in handling the problems prob-lems on the large area assigned to him. Ho relates many interesting experiences ex-periences of his early days in the service, some of which were not without considerable element of danger. Ho has had the satisfaction of handling the natural resources on the area over which he has jurisdiction juris-diction in such a manner that they will be perpetuated for generations to come. He has assisted in getting improvements on forest areas where none existed, in order that forest users and the public may enjoy the forests to the utmost, whether this means stockmen using the forage resources, big game enthusiasts or fishermen, timber operators, or the public in general while camping or picnic-ing. picnic-ing. Forest Ranger A. F. Richards, who has been district ranger at Duchesne, will be transferred to Heber to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Madsen's retirement. Ranger Ran-ger Richards worked on the Wasatch Wa-satch National forest in 1921 and 1922, and in 1923 was transferred to the Duchesne district, which position po-sition he has occupied since. |