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Show Beaver Man 3 Guilty in Tree TKefr A fUjt District Court jury has- found Melvin Ray Fordham, Beaver, guilty of one felony count in illegally removing Christmas trees from the Dixie and ' fishlake National Forests. Fordham was. sentenced August 26, by Judge David K. Winder to serve 45 days in the Utah County jaU and given three years probation. District Ranger A. Clair baldwin stated that the Dixie National Forest trees were illegally cut and removed from the Sanford Creek drainage. He further stated that 1 cooperation and in ' vestigation between personnel of the Beaver ! Ranger District, Fishlake 1 National Forest, and the ' Powell Ranger District, Dixie National Forest, resulted in seizure of the trees and charges filed ' against Fordham. |