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Show preparing for the influx of people seeking outdoor recreation recrea-tion in this most attractive setting. The forest highway from Manila to Greendale Junction is being reconstructed. Roads and trails in the Ashley National Forest are being built to care for the visitors. Recreation Recre-ation facilities are provided in the peaceful forest surroundings. surround-ings. Two hundred and seventy seven-ty family units are available for public camping, picnicing and trailer use on the Ashley National Forest near the reservoir. res-ervoir. Two major concrete boat launching ramps are provided pro-vided where boaters can put their boats in the reservoir and park their automobiles. In addition, ad-dition, a gravel ramp is available avail-able on the Green River near Little Hole. "Some $908,000 of Forest Service appropriations has been spent on recreation facilities, and $113,000 for trails in the Flaming Gorge area. And in Fiscal Year 1965 $70,000 is tentatively ten-tatively programmed for additional ad-ditional recreation work in the area. "The Forest Service has also scheduled over the next several years $2,900,000 for highway construction in the Flaming Gorge area. This will be supplemented sup-plemented by $1,300,000 in State of Utah and Federal Aid Flawing Gorge development plans outlined Regional Forester Floyd Iv-erson, Iv-erson, Forest Service, Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Region, today commended com-mended the recent action taken in Washington by the Advisory Board on National Parks which endorsed the establishment of Flaming Gorge National Rec-recation Rec-recation Area in Utah and Wyoming. The proposed Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area lies in Wyoming and Utah. It includes in-cludes Flaming Gorge Reservoir Reser-voir and a portion of the Green River. The concrete arch dam constructed by the Bureau Bur-eau of Reclamation is located in the Ashley National Forest and backs up the Green River for 91 mili-s to within a short distance of Green River, Wyoming. Wy-oming. The area within the Ashley National Forest boundary boun-dary is being administered by the Forest Service, and the area ar-ea outside the National Forest is under the National Park Service. The Ashley National Forest has been actively engaged in |