Show I Extension Director I Urges Control Of I Utah Vat Watersheds II Watershed lands in Utah must have hav some some definite supervision Mer Merely ly passing into private ownership ownership own own- own own-I is not n t sufficient unless the he private ownership is associated with the water users who want i the protection 4 small ravines ravI ray SI Small canyons and I ines close to many of the towns town I are being of the small sisal t I of 01 ofa ofa timber Umber protection The cutting of maple aspen or of a few acres I I oak if not done carefully might result not only In immediate flood I but also in continued re reduction reduction re- re dam damage ge re-I re I in water supply and Doto a Do menace to the community for fox forI 1 I to come This does I many years not not mean that part of the material materi- materi materi-j materi i I al 01 could not be cut for wood but t something should be left to protect protect protect pro pro- and retard retard reI re- re the snow In the area rehabilitate tard rd the runoff and thus I ta tate e the water supply j I An effort to make a careful study and a plan to be executed I on the watersheds of the several J essential as asI streams is just as I building r reservoirs on the streams The time has come when everyone everyone everyone every every- interested in th the one should be protection of the waters watershed ed Up planting has been to date little however however however how how- done lone to increase its value demands of the future ever the the into account well take may nay possibility of not only protecting the upper watershed watershed wa wa- the the vegetation on as it Is at present but extending extending extending ex ex- ex- ex tending the program to increase ase I of the water watershed hed hedI I the prot protection by ay new plantings of trees tree grasses I and shrubs for it is on these watersheds waI wa wa- the growth of this I that I state depends |