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Show MANTI NATIONAL FOREST NOTES Mr. George E. Holman, of the Biological Bio-logical Survey, who is in charge of the work of destruction of predatory animals for Utah, met with the advisory ad-visory board of the Manti National Forest Woolgrower's Association, in the Supervisor's Office on September 15. Mr. Holman states that numerous complaints have reached his office to the effect that there is an unusual increase in the number of coyotes this summer. The explanation he offers of-fers for this apparent increase in these animals is; that, due to the drying dry-ing up of many of the watering places on the desert, the coyotes have gone to the mountains and places where water is more plentiful, in fact, in the vicinity of Ephraim, coyotes have recently re-cently done considerable damage, one turkey raiser lost 80 turkeys, another one 60 and one sheep owner had 15 sheep killed in his pasture near town. If the dry weather continues much longer it should make the work of trapping comparatively easy, since it will only be only necessary for the trappers to locate near watering places and they will be few enough to make the work easy. Plans for the baiting of the higher range to start about October 1, were proposed at the meeting. Cattlemen and others riding on the forest ranges after October Oc-tober 1, should keep their eye or a muzzle on their dogs, otherwise they may lose them from one of the numerous num-erous baits that will be put out. A few of the cattle are beginning to drift off the forest on both sides of the range. There is plenty of feed on the east side on the lower ranges, because of the dry summer, however, there is no water and to the stock drift on into the valleys. The Ed. Johnson sheep left the forest on September Sep-tember 22. A number of other herds left also, because of the lack of fresh feed or water, will be compelled to leave the forest range within the next few days. The Seely Creek Ranger station is receiving a new coat of paint and is in other ways being renovated. If you are a color enthusiast, right now is the time to visit the mountains, moun-tains, since the coloring at this time of the year is most beautiful and, due to the dryness of 1 everything, the leaves will soon be gone. Visitors to the forest should be very careful with fire, smce the fire hazard is exceptionally ex-ceptionally heavy at the present time. Ranger Cox reports that during July and August he had a crew of fence builders working on the Mt. Baldy pasture fence and on the Six Mile Flat division fence for 7 weeks. During Dur-ing this entire period the men did not lose one-half hour because of storm. This is unheard of on the Manti for the higher areas, not only that, but 't would seem now that an additional 7 weeks could have been put in without with-out any loss of time on account of storm. A number of "Show Me" trips are being planned for the next few days, at which time needed range improvement improve-ment will also be gone into carefully. |