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Show WEST. RESOUR. NOTES... In an effort to limit devastation devasta-tion of large areas of range grass in northeastern New Mexico, three federal agencies agen-cies recently teamed up with the state of New Mexico and ranchers to spray 200,752 acres of rangeland. Their aim j was to kill an infestation by the range caterpillar, and they rported their efforts ; were about 90 percent effective. effec-tive. The program at the I federal level is being carried on by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of ; the U.S. Department of Agri- ' culture, which is currently conducting egg mass surveys to determine the extent of the ' 1978 infestation; and by the J state and regional offices quartered in Santa Fe of the Bureau of Land Management ! and the U.S. Forest Service, respectively. hem The Arizona Public Service Company has announced that Ralph M. Bilby of Flagstaff, Ariz., has been named chairman chair-man of the board of directors to succeed W7illiam P. Reilly, , who recently retired to be- ' come a member of the staff of Gov. Wesley Bolin, D-Ariz. Bilby is the head of the Babbitt Brothers Trading Co., an historic northern Arizona firm. Karl Eller, president of Combined Communications Corporation, a media conglomerate, con-glomerate, is the new chairman chair-man of ASP's executive committee, com-mittee, the post previously held by Bilby. hem The land management agencies ag-encies are now hiring youths 16-23 to work on conservation projects under the new Young Adult Conservation Corps (YACC) program. They will be employed for one year, with payment at the minimum wage of $2.30 per hour until the end of the year and at the new rate of $2.65 after that. They w-ill work on such projects proj-ects as tree thinning, reforestation, refores-tation, wildlife habitat improvement, im-provement, stream clearance and debris removal, recreation recrea-tion site maintenance and trailbuilding, roadside brushing brush-ing and culvert maintenance, and spring development and protection. Hiring is being done through the state employment em-ployment offices by the Bureau Bur-eau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, Fish and ; Wildlife Service, and National ; Park Service. ; hem ; The Pacific Northwest Riv- er Basins Commission has a limited supply of maps show- . ing the drainage and hydrog- , raphy of the five Pacific Northwestern states Wash- j ington, Oregon. Idaho, and ! (portions of ) Montana and Wyoming. They are available : without .charge, through the ; Commission. P.O. Box 90S, ', Vancouver, Wash. 98660. The ; maps were prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Water Resources Council s |