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Show Promotion, Transfer Announced ior Cedar City Forester Assistant ranger H. Grant Seaman Sea-man will be promoted to ranger and be transferred from the Cedar Ce-dar City ranger district to the Pine Valley ranger district of the Dixie National Forest with headquarters head-quarters at St George, to replace Ranger Floyd C. Noel, who is transferring to the Duchesne ranger district of the Ashley National Na-tional Forest These transfers and promotions were announced by Albert Al-bertson, Al-bertson, supervisor of the Dixie National Forest to become effective effect-ive Aug. 12. 1956. . Assistant Ranger Seaman has practically grown up in the Forest For-est Service, as his father, Frank W. Seaman, was a forest ranger until his retirement from the Forest For-est Service In 1940. Grant spent many of his boyhood day in the woods and on the range with his father. Up Through Banks Assistant Ranger Seaman started start-ed working for the Forest Service Ser-vice as assistant forest guard in the Navajo Lake ranger district 13, 1940, and has worked Ms way up through the ranks of the Forest For-est service to assistant ranger under regular Civil Service ap- pointment which he received Dec. 18, 1955. His promotion to forest ranger has been well earned, the supervisor said. In addition to his broad experience exper-ience In ranger district work, Seaman has filled special assignments as-signments in suppression of large forest fires in Idaho and Utah. He is a native of Cedar City where he received his elementary, elemen-tary, high school and college ed-, ucation. He is a graduate of the College of Southern Utah at Cedar Ce-dar City and has taken special courses In fire protection and range management from the Utah State Agricultural College at Logan. In community affairs he has been active in the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce, the Iron County Chapter of the American Red Cross. Boy Scouts of America Ameri-ca and the Cedar City Shade Tree Committee. At one time he was a member of the Cedar City Rotary Club. He and his family are active In L D S Church affairs. af-fairs. His wife Is the former Mary Jane Mitchell of Parowan. They have five children ranging in age from two to 15 years. The family will move with Ranger Seaman to his new headquarters in St George, Supervisor Albert-son Albert-son said. Mr. Noel, who was with the Cedar Ce-dar City office of the Dixie Forest before being transferred to the Pine Valley ranger district, will be transferred from that district to the Duchesne ranger district of the Ashley National Forest effective ef-fective Aug. 12. He began his work with the Dixie Forest In 1944 as a wildlife management assistant. |