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Show Forest Head Tells Of Improvement Highlights in 1949 Completion of a new Ranger headquarters at Circleville and a new office building at Pan-1 Pan-1 guitch were the 1949 improve-jment improve-jment program highlights report ed today by Albert Albertson, supervisor of the Dixie national forest. With these new additions, a total of 7 ranger offices and 10 five-room or larger residences are now in use on the forest. These dwellings are located generally gen-erally in towns for year-round occupancy. Seventeen smaller residences for seasonal use in the field, together with 65 large and small utility buildings, complete com-plete the inventory of administrative adminis-trative Improvements. Improvements for forest visitors visit-ors include 23 recreational areas, picnic and camp grounds, with luv-iiit no tanking XI 11 atu.ot tables and food boxes to amphitheatres amphi-theatres and playgrounds. Nearly all have pure piped water. Five hundred twenty-six miles of forest for-est Service built and maintained roads provide access to back country scenery, and to the timber tim-ber and range resources of the forest. Fourteen hundred seventy-five miles of trail traverse the areas away from .roads, and are used Dy rangers, siocKmen ana sports-men. sports-men. One of their chief uses is to provide access to the back country for fire suppression. Also Al-so important fire-fighting aids are the tool caches maintained at strategic points across the for-set, for-set, and the radio net, consisting consist-ing of sixteen portable and stationary sta-tionary two-way outfits. One hundred sixty-one miles of telephone tele-phone line supplement the radio communications. Range improvements include 775 miles of boundary, division and protective fence and 432 water developments built for the use of Dixie forest grazing permittees.. per-mittees.. Over 30,000 acres of depleted de-pleted land has been resecded to grass in a continuing range improvement program. |