| Show dinner meet Monday night The Kiwanis Club will meet tonight March 9 at pm p.m. at the Lam plighter A program Is being arranged by the program committee Monday night March 13 the anns will meet at the Lamplighter Lamplighter lamplighter Lam lam- plighter Inn for a dinner meeting and program by l Edson a student from Brazil who is currently attending Uintah High School hostesses Co-hostesses Johnnie Searle and Nancy Grua will be begetting begetting begetting getting in touch with members for input includes the affects on soil wildlife recreation range fisheries and others 3 An Environmental Analysis Report a shortened Environmental Impact Statement is prepared This report takes into account all aspects of the sale to determine if the benefits of the logging operation outweigh the negative impacts This report also designates how slash will be disposed of how the area will be left after logging is completed i who if anyone will reseed the area and how erosion control wilt will iII be carried out At U thus this s step the sale is made public knowledge and it can be halted haIled if valid environmental reasons do exist 4 4 Mark out of the sales area is completed designating which trees willbe will willbe willbe be cut the location and type of roads that will be used and determining the volume of timber that will be cut 5 5 Contracts are prepared that specify what is required of the timber purchaser 6 Advertising the sale of timber for a minimum bid price If no one bids on the timber limber it is left for sale at a later date The successful bidder on the Dowd Mountain sale was The Great Lake Timber Company of Ft Duchesne reservations At last weeks week's breakfast meeting at atthe atthe atthe the Lamplighter Inn hill many items of business were discussed They had to post a performance bond bond with the Forest Service to Insure that the contract was completed according to government specifications and each month prior to cutting they have to pay for the number of trees that they would remove during that month In this way the Forest Service retains complete control of the logging operations and visits to the site on a daily dally basis are made to insure compliance with witt the contract The trees on the Ashley National Forest and the lands on which they stand belong to the public That's you and f I. I The Forest Service who has the charge to manage this resource for us has extended an open invitation to anyone who wishes to visit the Dowd Mountain sale site Then if you have any questions or comments about it they will be glad to hear them |
