Show t SMOKEY SAYS Ten years from now if you eat eata a beef steak or a venison roast that was fattened on a variety of sagebrush or Jr grass that does not even exist today you can thank a dedicated group of Utah scientists These men work for the US U.S. Forest Service and the Utah Department Department De De- of Fish and Game in inthe inthe the open air laboratories and on onI r I the ranges of the Great Basin Experiment Station with headquarters head- head I. I i quarters at Ephraim r I This is no ordinary experImental experimental experimental mental station Established in 1912 it was the first location of any specialized research in America on forest range and watershed lands The residents of the communities communities communities along US U.S. Highway 89 from Mt Pleasant through Ephraim Ephraim Ephraim Eph Eph- raim and Manti Mantl to Gunnison have special reason to appreciate elate clate the work done at the Great Basin Station for these last 55 years Flash floods which once r raised so much havoc in these towns are less of a threat now because of the careful management management manage manage- t ment of the watersheds in the mountains above them The application of research findings in coordination with the National Forest Multiple use principal of management assures assures as as- the maintenance of healthy watersheds while providing timber timber timber tim tim- ber wildlife recreation and for for- age |