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Show UTAH'S RESOURCES TO BE CONTROLLED SALT LAKE CITY, Apr. 24 The intelligent control of Utah's natural resources, now alarmingly alarm-ingly , less abundant than they have ever been, is the aim of the Utah Natural Resources association, as-sociation, as reported in a brief by Dr. A. M. Woodbury, University Uni-versity of Utah scientist, who is acting secretary and treasurer of the organization. The association, cognizant of the great diversity of natural resources re-sources in the state, has seen the need of some sort of centralized adrtvaistration that will insure closer . co-operation in all phases of conservation work that exists at present among the dozen or more state agencies, each interested inter-ested in its own particular problem prob-lem with but little understanding for a related program. The central agency, which might be known as a "Department "Depart-ment of Conservation," would have jurisdiction over renewable and nonrenewable resources alike, and its personnel would be made up of specialists in every field, which would give the organization organiza-tion a desirable non-political stamp. The paper calls attention to the alarming denudation of timber tim-ber lands, overgrazing, commercial com-mercial exploitation from which Utah derives little or no bene-flt, bene-flt, and even desecration of ruins and other resources of scientific and historical value. Dr. Woodbury, basing his statements state-ments on reliable authority, points out that "It is estimated that nine-tenths of the crop of prehistoric pre-historic ruins have been desecrated, desecrat-ed, pilferod, or excavated, and that the majority of the relics have been lost or removed from the state. It is tnown that the work of pilfering goes on despite the efforts 'of the federal and state governments to curb it. There is only one crop of ruins, and when once spoiled, they are gone forever. Prominent scientists from all three Utah colleges, governmental governmen-tal bureaus and other scientific societies, as well as public spirited spirit-ed citizens make up the directorate director-ate of the association which was formed last year. |