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Show TRAINING SCHOOL The Pangultch Ranger station was the scene of much activity Monday and Tuesday when 33 people assembled for a two day training school on how to kill the black hills bark beetle, known to technicians as Iedroctnus Ponderosae. This unpretentious looking black beetle, about the size of a kernal of wheat, Is spreading death through the valuable yellow pine stands of four ranger districts on the Dixie National Forest. Its loll of trees, this year Is estimated at 6700 which rr presents about 2,280,000 board feet of valuable lumber. Continuation of such losses would be a blow to tho local economy ns well as extremely detrimental to watershed values. Each Insect Infested tree must be located, felled and treated tY applying an Insecticide spray known as ethylene dlbromlde. It Is planned that 40 men with horses and equipment will be needed to do this Job by July 30. About this time these ravenous forest pests are expected to leave the trees enroute to another attack and can no longer bo captured under treo bark. In addition to the Infested areas on the Dixie National Forest there Is an Infested area In Bryce Canyon National Park which Is estimated at 2000 trees. The school was conducted by Boyd Leonard, forest service, of Cedar City. One of the principal Instructors was Richard Washburn, forest entomologist, of Ogden. Forest Rangers attending, on whose districts the bottle Infes-tation occurs, were Wilfred Ben-tley, Cedar City, Reed Thomson, Escalante. and Grant Williams and Buck Cuskelly of Pangultch. Park Ranger trainees were Bill Krueger and Joe Rumberg or Itryco Canyon. |