Show Doan Box Student Life Wednetday Feb 23 1977 Page named president of the Society for Range Management Thddis W Box dean of the College of Natural Resources I'SL' was named president of the 5 member Society for Flange Management 000 Wednesday night during the society's annual meeting I )r Box a native of Jano County Texas has USU of the College of Natural dean been Resources since 1970 He has been active in 1946 range management in the Southwest since on arid and and has worked internationally land problems during the past de( ade semi-arithe In accepting the leadership post with of the organization which is considered one of 40 percent of major forces in the management the earth's surfn e Box pointed to six goals for d the SRM These include continuous service to members and the various sei lions improving the organization’s communication efforts with dei ismn at makers all levels of government maintaining the society s professional standards in order to retain s lentifu i redibility improving outreach t" those developing oun'ries where professional help is not available and improving the internal Six letv for Range Mitiagetnerit operational the looking it public lands in the United Mates Box noted that mo-- t are m p Mr or fair onditioti end tfieir management is i nmpln a'ed hv pi es Miles from a growing human population Overseas t angelands in developing countries are in poor condition often produt mg levs than those here in North Amern a Often there are no trained range tersotinel vague land tenure situations and no institutions with the stewardship charged lands" “'Hie Box said 9 of the mngr- - developing countries need our help" the new president of the Society for Flange Management dei lat ed Box is listed in Ament un Men of M ieru e Who s Who in Amerii a Who's W’tio in St lente Who s Win in the West and Who's Who in mer n an wlw ation He was named Conservationist of the Year m 1 n'ti the Ctah hv nv I ironmental (nunol and was presented the Outstanding Conservationist Award from tfie Utah latum of Consert As-so- vation I strict i the same year in won't lead metric change says Vice President Burtenshaw USU had (lone nothing offn nil to begin its tonvirsion to the metric system O a ude J Burtenshaw vice president of Student Affairs told Student Life ' It hadn't lieen disi ussed offi cially in any (mlny meeting I ve hut outside of been to" he said meetings almost everyone is aware of it " USU He added that the I ) Burtenshaw said that when goes metric it will probably be the result of a state-wid- e or nationwide prix tarnation "Here we will just respond to' it" he said ' I don t think Utah State w ill lead out in the change " Burtenshaw viid he thought the change to metro would result from a federal law urn ermng cntical units of measure He said the metric system has a lot of adv antages including its widespread use in the world “It is also more onsistent in its numerical and quantitative measurements" Burtenshaw said USU w ill riot he easv on v t r mi he said r Ii mg w ith another s' s tern for all a lersotis’s life there will tie tunes w tn n the Ir ansitiori will lie hard he oni hided f! It is like trv mg to leal n a m w but it wont be that language difluult fo’r v qrm hhl ynoU'jdiMj select your DIAMOND at Baugh Jewelry c CUmUTAL r -- o'! mrnia 4 8:00 pm MftRCIl SPECTRUM w 350450 “SILVER” T TICKET OFFICE GOOD SEATS STILL AVAILABLE Keith Berger Feb 25 8:00 pm Fine Arils ‘1 "A GREAT MIME v! a' 5 'TV-'r- ' T I U C -- I'M |