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Show March 1972 Utah Farm Bureau News Ecology: Why Is It? Norma Ross, Director Sevier County Farm Bureau Joseph, Utah 84739 Just what does ecology mean to you Mr. and Mrs. Average American? Is it the air you breathe? Is it the mountains you like to look at, and to picnic and hike in? Is it the streams and lakes you like to fish from and sail on? Is it beauty all around? Or is it a pain in the neck? Lets you and I take a very close look at it, first from a land owners point of view. What about cattle grazing? Are we to stop this much needed privilege because cattle tend to eat grass and trample sage brush? Are these same cattle supposed to quit drinking water from mountain streams for fear of polluting diem for some fisherman down below? Are we to assume that to clean or to clear a canal or river bank is a no no because some willows or brush may be uprooted? We hope not. To us ecology is fine, in its place. But when Its place is abused to the extent that men lose their jobs and have to go on welfare rolis to Page 7 support their families then ecology people are over stepping a few bounds. This is taking a mans pride away from him. It is demeaning the character of his children and their desire to learn to work. The example will be set and it will carry on from generation to generation. To us it would be better to see smoke on the horizon and to have money in our pockets and welfare aid left for the really needy people. It is our belief that God created the earth for man. The minerals that are in the earth belong to God and to Man. If God had intended for man to leave things alone, why then did He in His Divine Knowledge put man on earth with a braih? Have you ever looked out across a beautiful green field to see nice fat cattle grazing at sunset? Have you ever planted a seed, watered it and watched it sprout and grow into a lovely plant? THINK: What does ecology mean to You? Use of natural resources stopped? Our farmers out of work and land laying silent and cold, machinery rusting away? And in your stomachs synthetic foods to match synthetic clothes and some synthetic brains? Yes Mr. and Mrs. Average American lets take a long long look at Ecology. South Box Elder Hear Eldon Schnoor South Boxelder Farm Bureau under the leadership of Rulon Smoot 25 in the Corrine LDS Ward for their Winter Banquet. Eldon Schnoor Fieldman for the American Farm Bureau Federation stationed in Denver addressed die gathering. Hie Farm Bureau Womens committee prepared the Banquet in an excellent manner and received the commendation of the County Organization. Hie membership, about 250 attending, were instructed to place Slow Moving Vehicle signs on their equipment as soon as possible as an aid to accident and injury prevention and to comply with .the national regulation of the Office of Occupational Safety and Health. Mrs. Ernie Huggins was recognized for her long service in Farm Bureau and complimented for the many things she helped to accomplish. Entertainment was presented by Talent Find winners from last fall. met February Dr. Max Wallentine speaking at the Utah County Farm Bureau Winter Banquet explained opportunities for college graduates in agricultural fields. Howard and Jean Johnson discuss dinner program with Dix Monroe, Resident Millard County Farm Bureau. Marvin Powell explains to Cumorah Holdaway how he judged various home cooked foods Millard Young Utah County Farm Bureau held a successful day convention in Payson February 21. Speakers included Dr. D.A. Emstrom, Head of Nutrition and Food Science Department, USU and Flora H. Food Nutrition Bardwell, Specialist, Dr. Max Wallentine Assn. Dean of Biological and Agricultural Sciences, BYU. Evelyn Payne, who won the Rural Talent Find Contest last fall, entertained the group during the lunch hours. Millard County Young Farmers and Ranchers committee sponsored a Dinner Meeting at the City Cafe in Delta as an invitation to young farmers who wanted to see what can be. accomplished through farm' organizations. The cafe dining area was filled with about forty or more young people to enjoy the evening. Brent and Farol Hunter, Cedar City, represented the UFB YF and R committee and discussed their experience with Farm Bureau. They only recently returned from a leadership training school for young farmers. Information Director, Utah Farm Bureau, Neil D. Sumsion (after being missdirected to Fillmore) expressed the significance of young farmers taking an active role in farm programs and planning. Their future prosperity may well be determined by the actions taken early in their farming career. The evening set the stage for further activities geared to promote a more youthful approach to farm problems. We said it last year. We say it again . . . 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