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Show National Park Service Members Discuss Insect Control The Cedar City Forest Service office was the scene of much activity ac-tivity Tuesday w hen members of the National Park Service and U. S. Forest Service met to discuss the 155 insect control project expected ex-pected to be carried out on National Na-tional Forest lands and National Nation-al Park lands next spring, according ac-cording to Boyd Leonard, timber slaff olfieer of the Dixie National Nation-al Forest. The Black Hills Beetle, which attacks ponderosa pine and is now active in epidemic proportions propor-tions ovei parts of the parks and jtorest, is being held in check bv annual control projects carried 011 daiing the months of April, May and June. It is during these months that effective control j measures can be taken. Mr. Leonard Leon-ard said. Cooperative insect control con-trol plans between the two agencies agen-cies are laid early in the year in order that work can go ahead without a hitch at the time the projects begin. Hundreds of thousands thou-sands of board feet of valuable pine timber is saved from loss in this way, according to Mr. I Leonard. j Those, attending the meeting weie Stuart Carlson, forester of Albuquerque, N. M.; Paul Franke, superintendent of Zion and Bryce National Parks; Chester Thomas, r.ipger of Grand Canyon National Nation-al Park, and Bill James, all of the Park Service; Paul Grossen-'b;ich. Grossen-'b;ich. forester, and Walt Zillgitt, timber research specialist, both of Ogden, Utah, and Albert Al-bortson, Al-bortson, Leland Hcywood, Boyd Leonard and Simon Cuskelly, all forest officers of the Dixie National Na-tional Forest at Cedar City. |