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Show Utah State U Officials Plan Moab Visit Dr. Glen L. Taggert, President; Pres-ident; Dr. Garth Hansen, Provost; Dr. Oral Ballara, Dean of the College of Education; Edu-cation; and Dr. Lloyd Druiy, Extension Division, and other oth-er officials of Utah State University, will be in Moab on a get-acquainted tour c.f Grand and San Juan Counties Coun-ties during the coming week. Special interest to the university uni-versity officials will be the Continuing Education Center Cen-ter directed by Thomas Arnold Ar-nold under the sponsorship of Utah . State University, and they will also examine the educational facilities of Grand County School District in connection with the Continuing Con-tinuing Education Program and other projects being conducted con-ducted cooperatively with the local school district. Their program includes a breakfast with local school officials and representatives of other agencies to be held Monday morning. President Taggert will be the guest speaker at the regular Ro- The tree is healthy and growing at a 9,000-foot elevation ele-vation about three-quarters of a mile west of Twin Peaks The inside of the tree i? hollow but Kimball reporis that more than half of it is still alive. Limber pine was first recorded re-corded near Pike's Peak by Dr. Edwin James, an army surgeon attached to Long's Rocky Mountain Expedition of 1829. Like other relatively relative-ly inaccessible trees of high altitude, limber pine is primarily pri-marily of importance in the protection of valuable watersheds. water-sheds. Limber pir occurs most abundantly on dry, shallow, rocky soils as an occasional tree "or in small' groves in mixture with other coniferous conifer-ous species. Limber pine is found' on the east slopes of the Rocky Mountains in southern : British Bri-tish Columbia and southern Alberta'; south along the mountains to Arizona, and New Mexico; west to tiie mountains of southern Calif. east through Nevada, Utah, and Idaho. The tree is found in altitudinal ranges of 4, COO to 10X00 foot elevations in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho: 4.5"0 to il,500 feet in Colorado, Nevada and Utah; and 8,000 to 11.800 feet in southern California. The champion of all tree species in size is a Redwcri (Sequoia sempervirens) wifh a circumference of 5 feet 6 inches. Although this limber pine is an ancient living plant, it does net approach the tremendous age of the bristlecone pines. |