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Show ASUU ecology committee offers $25 award for project suggestion The ASUU Ecology Committee announced a $25 reward for the best suggestion for a campus ecology project. Committee chairman Lloyd High, who has also worked in ecology projects at Utah State University, observed that the Committee has accumulated some $1500 for use on the University's project when the group decides on the best suggestion; High remarked that "we need more people interested in making the University an example of ecological living," but that the $25 offer has had little student response. Applications will be accepted in Union 161 until Nov. 1. He mentioned that the Committee also needs volunteers to work in the Union Ecology Center. The group is now trying to "increase public awareness of recycling,"' as well as "working with the people" at the University's arboretum. The arboretum is an area of land at the mouth of Red Butte Canyon near Fort Douglas which is being planted with trees and shrubs by interested groups in the community. com-munity. High stated that in less than five years the arboretum will extend from Fort Douglas to the "This is the Place" monument as a public park closed to motor vehicles. Next year a large pond in the arboretum will be stocked with bass and salamanders shipped to Utah from Minnesota. One current project includes the planting and care of juniper trees by small groups, usually around five people per tree. Junipers were chosen as a tree most adaptable to the Utah climate. The arboretum recently acquired $400 worth of tools, and the Ecology Committee encourages interested groups to contact the Ecology Center for more information. in-formation. Co-chairman Pat White reported that the Committee's work in organizing high school ecology and recycling groups has been very successful, and the group looks forward to enacting the new campus project. |