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Show Vandals Wreck National Forest Recreation Sites in Area Your National Forest rec-realii rec-realii :i sites were wrecked 'o the time of $.11! 1.4-15 in the In-tcrinciintaii) In-tcrinciintaii) Kenimi (lurin;.; f.seal ye.-.r 1'.). If tills b:(. .f ii'.f rinatiin Mlmcks you, consider that throughout the country, during fiscal year lDii'.l, mere than 2 million dollars dol-lars werth of vandalism damage dam-age was inflicted on National Nation-al Forest recreation sites. Regional Forester Floyd Iversoii repe.rlett that Urn S'M lf represents nearly 8 per cent of .the total money allocated ito maintain lecre- i.tinn developments durin;,' that tune. "Several new public facilities facil-ities cetild lo developed eaell year with the money wasted by needless- destruction ci property," said Regional Forester For-ester Iversoii. The Intel-mountain Region includes 18 National Forests in Southern Idaho, western Wyoming. Utah, Nevada, and p rt of California. Many recreation rec-reation sites are near heavily populated areas, while others oth-ers are in remote forest locations. lo-cations. Camping and picnickine; facilities fa-cilities were hardest hit. Directional Di-rectional and interpretive s:gns were extensively damaged. dam-aged. Vaiul a'lism cosjts do not include those for cleaning up litter and garbage. The Uinta National Forest; For-est; headquartered at Provo, Utah, was hardest hit by vandals, van-dals, sustaining $32,040 worth of damage. Also severely damaged were recreation sites in the Cache National Forest in Utah ($29,153), Toiyabe National Na-tional Forest i n Nevada ($27,6')0), Roise National Forest For-est in Idaho ($17,C75), Caribou Cari-bou National Forest in Idaho Ida-ho ($14,015), Sawtooth Nation" al Forest in Idaho ($13,745), Wasatch National Forest in I'talf ($13,170), Ashley National Na-tional Forest in Utah $11. ,343 and the Humbolt National iForeit in Nevada ($10,935). Damage to other National Forests in the Intermountaui Region ranged downward. .Mh the Targhee National Forest in Idaho sustaining the least damage $3,545. Forest Service officials urge all National Forest usors to help curb vandalism and reduce re-duce litter and pollution during dur-ing the year ahead. |