Show important work to be done unless strenuous measures are arc put into effect immediately to prevent the increase of destructive bork beetles that have been destroying ying timber on the fhe kaibab national forest and in the grand canyon national park much of the control work that has been done in the past will become in ineffective according to advices advises received today from experts of the bureau of entomology by R H rutledge district ro forester rester dis brict 4 with headquarters at og den this will dome come as decidedly unpleasant news to all who have visited the north rim of the grand canyon and have vivid recollections of tile the beautiful pine forest on the kaibab plateau there are even more serious seri oils consequences involved than the destruction of the scenic values alone however while it is true that the timber on the grand canyon national park and along the ole roadways and camping p places I 1 a c es within the kaibab national forest has been dedicated forever to the tourist and the cause of beauty at the same time the vast area of timber into which tile the tourists never penetrated is destined to a more material but no less worthy end sooner or later it will form the basis of 0 a great lumber industry of tremendous importance to the prosperity of southern utah and adjacent arizona this great body of timber is one of the finest stands of western yellow P pine ne still remaining uncut in this vestern western country sin since ce it is difficult of access and will have to be logged by means of railroad however lumbering will probably not i be undertaken for 20 or 25 years at the same time tile the asset lying tied up there is indeed tremendous it is planned to cut this timber at the rate of approximately 40 million feet a year under which conditions growth will equal depletion depiction and a continuous production will be maintained for all tirrie time according to the experts of the forest service this will undoubtedly mean in dollars and cents a revenue of so something like a year to the government of which one quarter will revert back to Con conina county arizona i in in lieu of taxes on the area expressed in terms of the finished product it means a permanent million dollar year business brought into southern utah the bark beetles have the power of destroying all this potential prosperity in this region and will undoubtedly do so unless adequate I 1 measures are started this spring to destroy them aside from this destruction of the future lumber asset it will mean an immediate blow to the tourist business of south southern rn utah the north rim of the grand canyon would no longer be attractive and the rapidly increasing tourist business the excellent system of roa roads Is that is being planned for that re gion and all of tile the developments would receive a tremendous set back difficult to express espre ss in terms of dollars and cents the forest service is now planning for a vigorous campaign against the bark beetle in the spring the phe amount of work that can be done i being conditioned conditioned chiefly at present by the amount of finds th that tit can be made available for the salvation of this remarkable area |