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Show Increasing and New Land Uses to be Discussed Increasing use and new kinds ef uses of lands in Utah administered by the Bureau of Land Management will be discussed by the bureau's state advisory board August 24 and 25 in Nephi. The thirty member group will have a meeting the afternoon af-ternoon of August 24 in the elementary school at 380 E. 2nd North, Nephi, according to Robert D. Nielson, BLM state director for Utah. They will make an all day tonr on August 25 of BLM-admin-istered lands in Juab and Tooele Counties. Kenneth Summers of Mon-ticello, Mon-ticello, board chairman, will conduct the August 24 meeting, meet-ing, beginning at 1 p.m. Nephi Ne-phi Mayor Eldon Sherwood will welcome the group, afT ter which Mr. Nielson and members of his staff will review re-view bureau programs in the state. Among topics to be discussed are drought conditions condi-tions in the state, off-road vehicle use of public land, predator control, recreation impacts and managing commercial com-mercial uses of BLM-admin-istered lands. John Mattoon, former Utah resident, who is chief of the bureau's Office of Information Informa-tion in Washington, D.C. will outline v public participation in bureau programs and will give a summary of legislation legisla-tion before Congress that may affect ! the bureau. Utah . representatives on the Department of the Interior Inter-ior National Advisory Board Council will report on recent actions of that council and there will be time for recommendations rec-ommendations to .BLM officials offi-cials . from state advisory board members. At an evening' dinner meeting-of the' board August 24 in Ray's Cafe,i Nephi, Jess S. Jaryis, Nephi',. Director of the Six County Economic Development. De-velopment. District will describe de-scribe how the state's multi-county multi-county organizations relate to BLM. .: '; The August 25 tour wili include in-clude stops . at. the Yuba Reservoir, Little Sahara Sand Dunes recreation area, Simpson Simp-son Springs and Lookout Pass and tjre . Bnish-Wellman Co. Beryllium Mine.. There also will be discussions on the tour of such ' topics ' as motorcycle, mo-torcycle, racing in the vicinity vicin-ity of Cherry Creek, rock hounding at Topaz Mountain and the .geode beds; wild horses of the . area,, pinyon-juniper pinyon-juniper chaining . and . vegetation vegeta-tion , manipulations,, the Pony Express Trail, wildlife situations situ-ations and the : bureau's cooperative co-operative relations with other oth-er agencies. ' . Representatives ': from the Southeastern Utah, area on the'' advisory board include Mr. Summers, Clem E. Washburn, Wash-burn, Monticello and William Cunningham, Cisco. Alternates Alter-nates are Clarence Perkins, Blanding; D. L. Taylor, Moab Mo-ab and Emmett Elizondo, Fruita, Colo. |