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Show i Poor Pinenut Crop Indicated The pinion pine nut crop is light this year. Surveys by Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service personnel indicate a generally poor crop throughout the state. Dick Page of the BLM and Clyde Barthol of the Forest Service state that while the overall pine nut crop is spotty, there are some areas that may provide fair to good picking. Some of the larger nuts can be found in the Deep Creek Mountains northwest of Delta near Callao and the Nevada state line. Sheep Rock Mountains, approximately 15 miles south of Tooele, are listed as fair to good. The Book Cliffs area, approximately 40 miles north of 1-70 between Crescent-Junction and the Colorado state line, is rated fair to good. Other areas listed as sparse this year include: Raft River Narrows and Clear Creek north of Grouse Creek in Box Elder County on 1-15 to Snowville transferring to Highway 81 to Strevell and take graveled road to campground sign and follow road 5 miles east Raft River Narrows is 20 miles farther; Boulder Mountains north of Eureka in Utah County . . . follow Highway 36 south 44 miles from Tooele to Blackrock Canyon; Crystal Peak northwest of the Desert Experimental Range in the central part of the Mountain Home Range which is between Indian Peak and the Desert Range Station . . . there is a good volume of cones in this area but, insect infestation and blight has seriously affected the quality of the crop; another area listed as fair to sparse is Dark Canyon and Cedar Mesa west of Monticello just south of Canyonlands National park on Highway 95. |