Show forest service studies soil soi on mountains personnel of ashley ashlea national forest vernal spent tuesday and wednesday of last week receiving some basic training in the development and the function of oils moth in resource mana management forest supervisor aeme A R me conkle conkie reported recently the training way was conducted by 0 C olson soll soil scientist from the regional office ogden utah the study of soils has long been a part of farming agriculture but Is relatively new in wild land management during the past few years the soll soil Is becoming recognized for its true worth as a guide to the land manager in multiple resource land management A look at the soils can give many clues to the past history of the area its past climate and vegetation ax as well as offering the best indication of potential for its future development and use emphasis la is being given to the determination of poten bial erosion hazards of differ ent soils so BO that each can be managed for or its moa most t productive use without damage to the land itself soils are now being 1 studied in connection with range allotment analysis engineering of roads and tralle trails timber harvest and planting 1 and many other forest activities the training group spent two days in the taylor mountain and i diamond mountain areas near vernal studying the characteristics of the many soll soil types type found there they learned something of at the history and origin of these soils they learned why same come of these chef soils ous grow conifer timber others grow aspen and still others support only grass gram and shrubs because of the effects of past use many soils tit at the present time are not growing the kinds of vegetation for which they are most adapted many others are not producing the amount of 0 Arege vegetation tation of which they are capable A consideration of these facts will provide guidance for further management ashley forest personnel participating in the soils bolls training were lynn mitchell dutch john val simpson gene kuhns and john hoop er roosevelt burt rouse and archer wirth duchesne an and dDean dean rowland ed horton IL A cheatham robert davies tom sevy and allen alien shippee vernal |