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Show BLM COMPLETES IMPROVEMENT During the recent field season, sea-son, July 1 to Dec. 1, the Fillmore Fill-more District of the Bureau of Land Management completed extensive improvements upon the Federal range. Accomplishments in Beaver County: An area of 2,000 acres southwest south-west of. Milford was double chained to eliminate a stand of scrub pinon-juniper trees and islands of sagebrush. A mixture mix-ture of. crested wheatgrass, yellow sweet clover, bitterbrush and four-wing saltbush seed was aerial seeded to the area between seedings. The improved im-proved vegetative stand resulting re-sulting from this treatment will greatly improve the watershed and provide winter and spring feed to the sheep permitted in the area and year-long feed to a small resident herd of deer and antelope in the immediate vicinity of the seeding. A pinon-juniper watershed study in cooperation with Utah State University was established estab-lished approximately 25 miles west of Minersville. The objectives ob-jectives of the study are to determine the effects of various types of seeding practices on pinon-juniper stands in relation rela-tion to the use of water by the seedings as compared to the native stands and the amount of run-off (erosion) that occurs on the native stand as compared com-pared to that on the seedings. Two plots one of 40 acres on which the trees were chained down, pushed into windrows or piles and the area plowed and drilled to crested wheatgrass seed. The second of 30 acres was chained once, then aerial seeded to crested wheatgrass and chained over in the opposite direction. There are three 30-acre plots that will be studied but will remain re-main untreated. The district is continuing its work on the upper reaches of the Minersville Watershed. Some 14,000 cubic yards of earth were moved in the construction con-struction of check dams to stabilize sta-bilize channels, reduce flow rate. The water stored in these dams will provide water for livestock and wildlife. |