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Show Hew Assignments Made in Forest Service Personnel In keeping with Forest Service policy of transferrins men to new assignments for the purpose of filling vacancies in the service ser-vice and broadening the experience exper-ience of employees being transferred, trans-ferred, Albert Albertson, surer-visor surer-visor of the Dixie National Forest has announced the transfer of two outstanding young men from this unit and also their replacements replace-ments which will become effective effect-ive within the next two weeks. The men being transferred from the Dixie are Jotepli D. Peters and P. Max Rees. Peters entered the Forest Service Ser-vice in November 1948 as a junior jun-ior forester on the Dixie National Forest. He was employed as assistant as-sistant i anger on the Powell ranger district with headquarters at Panguitch until June, 1952 when he was transferred to the supervisor's office in Cedar City to fill the timber management staff position in this office. In transferring from the Dixie he is being assigned as district ranger to the Heir,e ranger district at Heise, Idaho on the Targhee National Na-tional Forest. Peters is a graduate gradu-ate of the Montana State University Uni-versity with a bachelor's degree in forestry. Prior to entering the Forest Service he worked for the Anaconda Mining company lumber department at Green-ough, Green-ough, Mont., both before and after World War II. During World War II he served with the 650th Engineering Battalion, U. S. Army Ar-my both in the United States and overseas. Ranger P. Max Rees is a native na-tive of Inkom, Idaho. He came to the Dixie forest from the Nevada Ne-vada forest in 1948. During his assignment here he has worked as district ranger in charge of two ranger districts, the Panguitch Pan-guitch Lak district and the Powell district. He is now being transferred to the Montpelier ranger district on the Caribou Cari-bou National Forest with headquarters head-quarters at Montpelier, Idaho. Rees is a graduate of the Utah State Agricultural college at Logan, Lo-gan, where he received his bachelor's bach-elor's degree in range management. manage-ment. Prior to his appointment as forest ranger on the Nevada forest he worked for the S"il Conservation Service for a short time. He served in the Navy in the Pacific area during World War II and was discharged as a lieutenant, senior grade at the close of the war. The staff position vacated by Mr. Peters in the supervisor's office of-fice at Cedar City will be filled by the transfer of R. Boyd Leonard Leon-ard from the Salmon forest with headquarters at Salmon, Idaho. Leonard is an experienced forest officer, having worked on the Fishlake and Dixie forests in Utah and the Sawtooth and Salmon Sal-mon forests in Idarn. With his assignment here the staff position posi-tion which he will fill will be broadened considerably in keeping keep-ing with his broader experience in Forest Service work. Leonard is a graduate of the University of Idaho with a B.S. in range management. He also holds an I M.S. degree from the Brigham Young University, Provo. He is married and has three children. His wife is the former Virginia Schick of Salt Lake City. S. Lawrence (Buck) Cuskelly is being transferred from the Heise district of the Targhee National Forest in Idaho to the Powell district of the Dixie Forest with headquarters at Panguitch to replace re-place Ranger Rees. Cuskelly is a native of Killdeer, North Dakota, Dako-ta, and is a graduate of the Utah State Agricultural college at Logan Lo-gan where he received his bachelor's bach-elor's degree in range management. manage-ment. He served in the United States Marine Corps in World War II and was a captain at the time of his discharge at the end of the war. He has a wife and two children who will come with him to Panguitch to make their home. |