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Show (Directors Study B. A. C. Post-War Development Plans Dr. R. H. Walker. Director of the US A C Experiment Station, with Dr. Lewis Turner. Dean of the School of Forestry and Range. Dr. Laurence Stoddart. Prof, of Range Management, and Dr. Madsen of the Agricultural Department, were in Cedar City last week to check the progress of the various Range. Livestock and Agricultural experiments experi-ments nOW Set UD at the Rrmrh Agricultural College. As a result this inspection future policies regarding re-garding these experiments will be determined and put Into operation. A definite, effort Is being made to determine how the Branch Agricultural Ag-ricultural College, through its experimental ex-perimental program can more effect-Ively effect-Ively fit Into the Past-War planning. plan-ning. With a physical set-up of adequate ad-equate summer and winter range land for study, also with cattle and sheep herds to be studied In relation to those lands. the Experiment Experi-ment Station authorities feel that much can be done to develop these projects Into the Post-War Planning Plan-ning program. An all-day trip by horseback of this group, together with Director Wayne Drlggs and Dr. Bell of the Agricultural Department of the BAC. further pointed out the direction that much of the Post-War planning could take. The problems of reseedlng much of the flange that has lost its carrying power because of erosion, the fencing of these areas, the matter of Predatory animals and the construction of cabins on the college col-lege mountain property to be used as quarters for groups of graduate students who will moke range studlrs hnre In connection with their work th Range Management nt the USA C. were definite goals In this Post-War planning. Dr. Walker states that as high as 200 boys could be used In the summer, sum-mer, time to help complete thes projects. "Plans are under way to bring closer relations between the Experimental Ex-perimental Station at Lngnn and, The Branch Agricultural College than have exkted In the past"' tate Dr. Walker. |