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Show below the mouth of White . Pine in O.ttonwood ' canyon. The snow was crusted sufficiently to carry the bear. However, from his tracks, he was making for the low country. Ranger Ollerton also reports numerous coyotes coy-otes on the higher elevations. The Forest office expects to receive j approximately 1300 pounds of poison-! poison-! ed oats, from the Biological survey, j This poison grain -will be used in destroying des-troying ground squirrels on the different dif-ferent parts of the-forest. Each ranger ran-ger will be expected to put out at least 200 pounds. The experiment station sta-tion officers will also use some of this grain.' Ranger" Anderson reports that snow has not not broken An the fields of Lower Joe's Valley to date.- The reports re-ports of the Ranger are that deer and elk are numerous this-year, due possi-bly.:rto possi-bly.:rto the fact. that the heavy snow on the higher areas has. driven them down. ( .. . i:-; . . ; . . 7 . ; - Ranger Cox has had made for use in . Twelve Mile, Manti, and Ephraim canyons, 8' camp tables, 4 garbage-pit "overs and 6 stoves. ' The use of these stoves, it i3 thought, will reduce the danger from fire on some of the areas ' here he. ha2ard is somewhat high. I MANTI NATIONAL j FOREST NOTES In April 1, Ranger Ollerton made a trip to the Mammoth Ranger Station Sta-tion where he spent four days doing inside painting. Ranger Ollerton reports re-ports 64 inches of snow, with a water content of 25 inches. He states that the snow is packed much better than usual, making it possible for him to get around on top of the snow without with-out snow shoes. ; Ranger Thursby made a trip up along the forest boundary above Spring City on April 4th. He reports a find of 2 feet of Snow at the forest boundary. The snow was so heavily crusted that horses could not travel. Supervisor Humphrey and Ranger Cox drove up Twelve. Mile canyon on April 2. The grader has gone over the Twelve Mile canyon road as far up as Clear Creek. Several bunches of deer were seen along the road, and from appearances of the vegetation feed has been somewhat scarce. Juniper, Juni-per, and practically all forms . of browse have . been grazed very close The deer seen, however, looked, tq be in fairly good condition. . To those individuals who maintain that deer do no damage on the winter i-ange, . i' would be well worthwhile to drive up Twelve Mile canyon and observe what-the what-the deer have been eating. Twigs ! Vh inch in diameter have been eaten; off the more palatable shrubs. ' Two thousand yellow pine trees are due to arrive at Ephraim shortly, after af-ter the 15th of April. Unless we have some exceptionally warm weather it will be two or three week before we will be able to get up where we wish to plant them. On Apr'l 4. Ranker Ollerton reported re-ported having seen a bear track down |