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Show Scouts restore lookout clearing Boy Scout Troop 547 of Magna recently recent-ly participated in a service project at Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. The scout troop removed trees which were invading the clearing around the lookout and re-worked trail surfaces around the tower. The work was necessary to the Ute Lookout restoration project. Ute Lookout is the only lookout tower in the State of Utah. It is being restored through volunteer efforts. Nine boys and two adults spent two days on the project. They hiked a total of four miles each day between their camp and the lookout tower. The boys of Troop 547 are hoping tne planning and execution of this project will qualify them for the Tom C. Clark Award of the National Park Foundation. Founda-tion. The award is given for special, significant service project related to our national, historical, scenic, recreational recrea-tional and cultural heritage. Scout Master Harold O'Bray planned the service project well in advance. He contacted the Forest Service as a result of a plea for volunteers which appeared in a cover feature about the tower which appeared in the Dec. 27, 1982 Home Magazine section of the Salt Lake Tribune. |