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Show Dixie Forest Advisory Group Makes Tour I A 15 man advisory group of the Dixie National Forest participated parti-cipated on a two-day "Show Me" trip through the national forest land. Led by Albert Albertson, supervisor, the group was shown first hand the part our national forests play in water storage, timber tim-ber development and conservation conserva-tion of land and water. Iartthus Wright, superintendent of Iron County schools, is chairman chair-man of the advisory group and the remaining committee is composed com-posed of Elwood J. Corry, Donald Mathews, Eldon Yergensen, all of Cedar City; Robert Mitchell, Parowan; William A. Barlocker, St. George; Leland Haws, Boulder; Boul-der; M. V. Hatch and William Bruhn. Panguitch, and J. H. Croft of Richfield. The trip began at 8:30 a. m. Friday, Aug. 12 and lasted thru Saturday morning. Friday evening the group of 15 was accommodated ac-commodated at the Duck Creek camp grounds which they toured Saturday morning along with accommodations ac-commodations at Navajo Lake before returning. Assisting superintendent Albertson Al-bertson on the tour were Assistant Assist-ant Ranger Grant Seaman and Timber Staff Officer of the Forest Boyd Leonard. First stop on the "show me" tour was at the south entrance to Cedar Breaks National Monument Monu-ment where a discussion in plant composition inside the monument area and the forest lands outside which has been grazed, ensued. Inside the park the group made three stops: to discuss various geological erosion problems, the loss of top soil, and the third stop was on famous Brian Head point where a panoramic view of the valley and the mountains can be had. Other stops Friday were at the Panguitch Lake guard station', where a lunch was served; a brief stop in Rock Canyon to view a reseeding project on forest for-est and private lands, the Panguitch Pan-guitch Lake Station and the timber tim-ber enclosure in Burrows Flat. The group then proceded to Duck Creek for the evening. |