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Show nm f fHIi"iirqi!ii--'ii.ii- fff?f qil trr Xi"l W iiiMiiiiruMi jjjjr 2 s. !'.tyiiwn v. sap. This kills them." Carpenter said the infestation must be stopped. But as he sees it, spraying the trees is out of the question because of a moratorium on insecticides. That situation is developing in the Wasatch National Forest, as the mountain pme beetle takes up residence m the Lodgepole pme. According to recreation forester Boyd Carpenter, infested trees are reaching epidemic in the forest. proportions Doyle Hanks, forester in charge of timber md farm management, says the situation is not that bad. When you think of every tree in the forest, youre talking about only one or two percent, he said. Of course, in some areas like the Pme this could go Valley region as high as one out of every three trees. - In either case, the results are fatal. Mountain pine beetles are bark borers which make their way into the a trees cambium layer to lay their eggs. Since cambium conducts food and water supplies from the roots to the rest of the tree, tunnels made by the beetles cause considerable damage. Cl UTAH the dibromide, Ethylene spray that would be used, is no good anyway, he added. It is quite volatile it would kill the tree, and it would hurt other wildlife in the area. And when 100 or more beetles infest the same tree, the tree becomes girdled with tunnels. With its food and water supply totally cut off, it dies. The bark beetles fly in June or July to lay their eggs. The problem then lies dormant until the following summer, when the cycle repeas itself. Treatment comes during this interim period. Only overmature trees are affected by the beetles, Hanks said. When young trees are infested, they produce enough sap to encase the beetles or drive them off. Older trees cant produce the "So the logical alternative is to the only alternative take out the trees that are already infested, Hanks said. Trees that were entered last year are easy to spot, because then- - needles have turned red. Other infested trees can be detected by entry holes in bark, as wefl as telltale frass (sawdust) near the points of entry. If we took out all those he continued, the trees, would problem solved. be ideally Hanks admitted, however, that these ideal conditions This is be are t. in cause often the mountain pine beetles fly several miles from one site to another, making their paths impossible to trace. Carpenter cited a case to bear this out. There was a similar problem in Kamas in 1963," he We spent tremendous said. amounts of money on the north slopes then, trying tc weed the bad trees out but there wre few effects. The only sure way to get the problem stopped is to cut all the infested trees, then log all the mature trees before tney become overmature and susceptible. Right now. Forest Service officials are deciding what to do to control the number of dying trees in the Wasatch National Forest. Action, If any is taken, will be sometime before the beetles fly again. What people dont seem to realize is that insects and disease kill more timber every year than we lose to harvest, Carpenter said. Its a serious and it must be pioblem, stopped. scene ir I v - yW1' Mgrtji"A mh0 yy - mi I' " ? yyifi'if1111 f S-- f v u'ViAriWi i ?'& SVnf.f'jf, V Ufahn dies Pine beetles despoil forest Sometimes the only way to save a tree is to pull another . l"Wacr'TUi"U' a,WWi mi1 iiioiMiijui Law enforcement agency Wyoming funds g okays crime-fightin- accident WYO ROCK SPRINGS. A worker was killed (AF) Tuesday afternoon at the construction site of the new Jim Bridger Power Plant northeast of here when he was crushed between two heavy metal panels inside a railroad car County Coroner Sweetwater Peter Vase said the victim. Howard Parker Royce, 52. Salt Lake City, killed instantly. Utah, was The Law Enforcement Planning Council Executive Committee has approved spending $S1,081 for criminal justice projects Co. Vase said Royce was working inside the railroad car removing braces that secured the two boiler tube panels when the panels apparently shifted and pinned him between them. Vase said each panel weighed several tons. of A total of $9,933 will be spent for police equipment to these cities: Vernal, $1,935; St. George, $1,303; Cedar City, $2,645, and Logan, $4,050. Garfield County will receive $844 for purchase of basic law in conjunction ning Council also approved spending $425,339 m discretion-- ' ary funds. with school officials, preventive measures to reduce crime and improve records systems for the entire police department. reference materials. The project will supply county attorneys from Beaver, Garfield, Iron and enforcement-relate- Royce was a boilermaker employed by the Bechtel Construction Co., main contractor for the project which is a joint venture of Pacific Power & Light Co. and Idaho Power various parts in Utah. d Kane counties with new developments in criminal law. The committee also voted $3,750 for county attorney assistance in Carbon County. These funds will pay for the services of the former district attorney, Roy Bunnell, to assist County Atty. Dan Keller. Included are $21,000 to the Utah Bar Foundation for a Utah legal information project. This consists of a study of the availability of legal information at all levels of the ' criminal justice system. The Department of Social Services was given $16,804 to extend the services of the Adult Probation and Parole Office in Logan. Sevier County will receive purchase a polygraph and the training of one officer. One agent and a secretary will be added to the office, reducing the existing case load from 170 work units per month to about 85 work units per agent. The Law Enforcement Plan half-tim- Weber State College will receive 57,500 for continuation of a specialized task force on drugs and thefts. This project provides drug abuse programs e $3,008 to The Ute Indian Tribe will receive $20,000 as a supple-- ' mental grant to the Ute Tribal Correctional Center. ' s.sea- Nerve gas disposal decision due DENVER (AP) Gov. John Vanderhoof said Tuesday he expects a decision soon from Secretary of the Army Howard Bo Calloway and the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the detoxification process for nerve gas stored at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. Vanderhoof said he thinks the current system now takdestroying it there, instead of place at the arsenal will be faster, in the long run, than taking it elsewhere other methods. ing . He pointed to unfavorable response proposals for moving it elsewhere have drawn, and also the fact that court tests might take as long as two or three years. 32033 ;Ji He said detoxification of the excess storage items is not nearly as technical in its mechanical way as material they are detoxifying now which has an explosive along with it. 11 iff . Richfield hospital bids opened its?' RICHFIELD Valley Builders, Gunnison, is the aphospital to be built at parent low bidder on a new Richfield. , - , The firm placed a bid of $1,006,000 Tuesday evening. Alsd bidding were Prestwich and Healy, with a bid of $1,093,644, and Tekton, Inc,, $1,126,000, The low bidder gave a period of 420 calendar days for completion of the hospital, to be built on the north end of the Sevier County community. 3 THURS. 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Woodward Junior High School, which presently has 700 students is considered inadequate and by the local school board. It is housed in five buildings scattered over three blocks. T. LaVoy Esplin, superintendent of Washington County Schools said, We are happy with the resuP It shows the people recognize the extreme need for this school and that they are supporting our educational program: Voting in most districts followed the same pattern. Theie were only two exceptions. Springdale, near Zion Na- tional Park, voted i2 for and 14 against. Virgin voted six for and five against. your home day or evening with all our carpet specials, in full color selection sale prices as in our stores. 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