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Show Washington Officials To Be Here for SE Utah Meets Rep. Laurence J. Burton, accompanied by Director Boyd L. Rasmusen of the Bureau of Land Management Manage-ment and Robert D. Niel-son, Niel-son, State Director for the Bureau, will visit in Moab Sunday, April 9, on the first leg of an inspection trip of public land holdings in southern and central Utah. The party will have dinner din-ner in the Desert Inn at 6 p.m. . that evening with civic and business leaders and local Federal Government Govern-ment officials. Following the dinner, an opportunity for the general public to meet with the touring officials will be available av-ailable before they depart for Blanding where they will stay overnight. A public pub-lic meeting has been set for the Grand county courtroom court-room at 7 p.m., to which all persons wishing to discuss public lands policy or administration, ad-ministration, are invited. Rep. Burton, who is a member of both the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and the Public Land Law Review Commission,, Commis-sion,, extended to Mr. Ras-mussen Ras-mussen the invitation to "see at first hand" the public pub-lic domlain in Utah. "As approximately three-fourths of the state is in federal ownership, I believe it is a good idea for our federal landlords to inspect their holdings periodically and obtain the views of our local lo-cal people who use the land," Congressman Burton said. "Mr. Rasmussen is in full accord with this view. and I am delighted that he and Mr. Nielson have agreed to participate in this tour." Mr. Rasmussen became Director of the Bureau of Land Management in July, 1966. This will be his first viist to Moab since he became be-came Director, although he is not a stranger to the area or the state. He served serv-ed with the Forest Senice for 31 year's prior to his present assignment, part of the. time in Ogden. He is a native of Glenns Ferry, Idaho. Ida-ho. The group plans to make an air tour of Canyonlands National Park in company of Bates Wilson, park superintendent, sup-erintendent, prior to the Moab meeting. On the following fol-lowing day, the party will inspect public land holdings hold-ings in San Juan county, and later travel to Hall's Crossing where they will go by boat on Lake Powell to Hole in the Rock. The party will stay there overnight, and proceed to Page, Ariz., and Kanato the next day. On Wednesday, the group will visit BLM facilities in Kanab before traveling up through Cottonwood Wash to Escalante and then on to Loa by way of the Water Wa-ter Pocket Fold, Capitol Reef National Monument and the Circle Cliffs. They will stay in Rlichfield that night and will conclude the tour on Thursday with inspection in-spection of the Castle Valley Val-ley Job Corps camp near I Price. Mr. Burton is scheduled sched-uled to address a Utah county Republican meeting in Provo that evening. |