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Show Nebo Loop Tour Planned by County, Forest Officials Sunday Utah County residents a 0 participate in of the Nebo Loop on and information Sponsoring the event will be the Utah County Beautification Committee and Utah County Commis sion in couperation with the Uinta National Forest County Parks and Recreation Department and Santa quin and Paysoncity officials Members of the ff's Jeep Patrol and Geneva Recreation lation will participate but other in- terested Utah County citizens areinvited Participants are asked to bring their lunch and a drink and meet at 10.a.m. at the two gas stations just west of the Santaquin I-15 exit. The four hour tour will include a lunchstop and four otherinformation stops, said J. Edwin Baird, chairman of the beautification committee Thefirst stop will beat the overlook at the head of Shingle Mill Hollow beyond Santaquin Canyon, Don Nebeker, Uinta National Forest supervisor, and Jerry Bringhurst, director of the parks and recreation department, will discuss the dependence of Wasatch front communities on the mountains andforests for recreation Page 5 ss the needs At a noon stop at the proposed Blackhawk campground speakers will talk about recreation developments. The speakers will include Karl R Lymahi, County Coluiussion chairman , Lyle Guinn, sores planner and spokesmen for Santaquin and ayson Traveling by Payson Lake the group will make a fourth stopin the flood area of Payson Canyon. There Mr. Zobell and Wiater Draper, county flood control officer, will give details of the recent Payson canyon tlood At thefinal stop the group will view the slide area, where an estimated five million cubic yards of alluvial material threaten to block the canyon road and impound water. Mr. Zobell and Mr. Draperwill explain what is taking place in the area Jo) SOMEWHERE ALONGNebo Loop Roadis this While the interesting effect is a modification of scene, But chances are most people won't see it what really exists, those planning to take the exactly like this. The photo was taken by staff member Phil Shurtleff using infrared film. THE HERALD, Prov and water of Payson Lake, it will be this kind of sceneryto be enjoyed by thosetaking the pS 1977 Another Stop will be at the Nebo Loop Road juncere Clarence Thornock, former Uinta forest or, and Keith LOOKING NORTH from the south shore me October 2, BYU Alum Appointed tour will find it extremely rewarding becauseof this kind of territory. Uinta National Forest Using People, Computer for Planning the forest service. By PAUL ROBERTS Data is first collected and stored in the memory Public lands belong to the people, and the people are getting to help decide how some of them are banks of the computer, Mr. Cleeves said. A sample used plan that shows how the system works was explained The U.S. Forest Service controls vast stretches of in which someofthe things that werelisted as goals land along the Wasatch Front. Each national forest are budget, recreation user days, board feet of has its own supervisor and the people living in the lodgepoletimber,cattle grazing, acres of browse and area of the national forest have opportunities to give lodgepole vegetation. Mr. Cleeves said public workshops are conducted input on the planning of the land, according to Lyle Gomm, forest planner and landscape architect for in which groups from varyinginterests participate to the Uinta National Forest. give input as to how they think the forest should be But people are not the only tool the forest service used. In the sample case, recreation enthusiasts, logemploys in determining how to use the land underits gers and cattle ranchers were involved in the jursidction. It is in the processofinitiatina the use of workshops. Their goals were listed along with cera computer system, which will save tim n the plan- tain constraints — budget and land area. ning process. The goals and data are entered into the computer Mr. Gommexplained that the forest service has according to priorities, Mr. Cleeves said. The comseveral goals or priorities it considers in meeting puter puts it together and reports what can be done stewardship responsibilities. Numberone on thelist with the goals within the limits of the constraints. Then the priorities are changed and the informais water quality. The forest and land must be managed so the “‘lifeblood’’ of the people in the com- tion fed through the computer again. A report shows munities along the Wasatch Front will not be how that plan would work. Another run through the machinetells howanother alternative would work. damaged. With this information, the people can be told what Second on that list is outdoor recreation, he said The area of the Wasatch Mountains south of Salt can be done with their goals. Sometimes certain Lake City, which comes under the auspices of the things have to be sacrificed to accomplish others Uinta National Forest, has a large,rich area for out- Sometimes compromises between groupsare necesdoor recreation, but the area north does not have sary Mr. Gommsaid the computer system canallow the such a vast region, Becauseofthis, the Uinta forest must be able to provide the facilities and adequate plannersto takethe entire forest and set downa plan for that rather than for smaller parcelsofit. It also space for recreation. The forest has 35 campgrounds and nine picnic allowsthe plans to be made without “dippinginto the areas along with 2,000 miles of hiking roads and precious well" of the public too often. The time of trails, Mr, Gomm said. There were 564,800 visitor planning could be reduced from eightor nine years to days in the developed area of the Uinta forest and only a couple of years, he said more than a million in dispersed areas. This gives a total of more than 1.6 million visitor days for the enBURRUD’S STAR tire forest The national forest provides wildlife habitat for hunters and streamsfor fishing. Use permits are HOLLYWOOD (UPI) —A star bearing the name of grantedto allowlivestock grazing over certain areas Bill Burrud, producer of travel and adventure of the forest. documentaries, was unveiled Wednesdayin the HolThe de vil be for recreation, lywood “wall ne’ in ceremonies postponed or logging are not arbitrary, according to fromlast week because of the deathof Elvis Presley. About 400 persons, including Burrud and his wife, Geevra estes resource analyst for the Uinta conwatched as he became the 1,685th entertainment National Forest. Public wants are taken into figure to rate a star in the sidewalk, The ceremony sideration along with budgets and land area to was canceled last week because Burrud’s star is next together all putit helps system ‘The computer create a viable plan that would mostcloselysatisfy to Presley's, and organizers did not want a crowd trampling Presley's star as he was being buried. the goals and priorities established by the public and By Carter Nebo Loop tour planned for Saturday, Payson Lakeis the largest of the Payson Lake group, This picture and one shown earlier trip. Meni~' Retardation Group | Calls ‘or Citizen Action The Utah CountyAssociation for Retarded Citizens Brigham Young (UCARC) called for a community willingness to University alumunus become involved with the mentally retarded in its Roger B. Porter has been Provo meeting this week. “If we're not willing to be the ambassadorsof the appointed by President Jimmy Carter as a mentallyretarded, then there won't be any,”’ Presimember of the Presi- dent Jim Byrnes of Lake Shore said. ‘We need to be dent’s Commission and proud of the fact that we're associated with mentally White House Fel- retarded people and we need to encourage others to lowships, according to be involved also," he continued. Mr. Byrnes, who has worked as a professional in word received today at the field of mental retardation, said the areas ARC BYU Dr. Porter, who was a organizationis ‘‘to serve as an advocatefor the needs White House Fellow in of retarded people in the county and also to help meet le." 1974-75, originally was ap- the needs of the families of retat UCARC With thatpurpose in mind, members of pointed to the commission by President Gerald discussed several waysthey could assist the mentally retarded. These included advocacy in education, R. Ford. He is a son of Dr community programming, and governmental afBlaine R. Porter, dean of fiars ; parent education programs; social activities the College of Family for the retarded, including a Christmasparty involvLiving at BYU, and ing the entire county ; county-wide transportation for graduated magna cum the handicapped ; social services ; and a youth ARC, laude from BYU in 1969 wherebrothersandsistersof the retarded as well as with a B. A. in political other interested youth would be able to meet anddisscience and history. As a cuss their needs. The group called for an increasing effort in Rhodes Scholarship winner, he attended Oxford strengthening the parent-to-parent program. When a University, England, mentally reatarded child is born, ‘it can be one of receiving the B. Phil in the da” kest days that or father will ever face," Mr. politics in 1972, He also Byrnes said. “Tt is sad,” he continued, ‘that time after time received a graduate scholarship from Har- these parents must face that situation alone." 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