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Show MANTI NATIONAL ' FOREST NOTES. Rangers Thursby and Nielson made a trip to the Seely Creek Ranger Station Sta-tion on March 5 for the purpose of making snow measurements. They were aDie to ride their horses as iar as the Great Basin Experiment Station, Sta-tion, something that has never been possible at this time of the year since the station was established. They found 35 inches of snow with a water content of 7.3 inches at the experiment station with a maximum temperature of 53 and a minimum of 10 below zero. At the Alpine station sta-tion they found 42 inches of snow and a water content of 12 inches, a maximum maxi-mum temperature of 45 degrees, and a minimum of 8 below zero. At the Seely Creek station' the snow was 40 inches deep with a water ocntent of 11.35 inches. On March 8, according accord-ing to reports of timber operators, between 20 and 25 inches of snow fell at Milk Creek in the head of Manti Man-ti Canyon. Since that time we have scarcely seen a day when it has not been storming on the mountain. It is hoped that the storms continue and that the deficiency in moisture on our watersheds will largely be made up before the opening of the grazing season. The Olsen Livestock Company of Ephraim Tuesday loaded a car of. fat calves for shipment to Salt Lake City. These calves brought 7 cents on foot f. o. b. Ephraim. They also shipped by express a few winter Iambs born at Christmas time. In the future piling and burning of the tops and limbs up to four inches in diameter will be required in our timber operations in the spruce and balsam types. Experiments have indicated in-dicated that reproduction is best where seeds can reach the mineral soil hence the necessity for piling and burning. Many of the seeds are prevented from reaching the soil and as a result fail to sprout where the limbs are lopped and scattered. The removal of all defective trees will be required even though timber sale receipts re-ceipts will be reduced by following this policy. The objective of Forest Management provides for the improvement im-provement of the present stand by our cutting operations. In the past the better class of trees has been removed leaving niui'.i of the inferior material for future growth. |