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Show Forest Service Opens Area Near Pinto to Free Use rivi NilLn.l f . O . '"'"i uF"r soi, Jack Shumate, announced that an area within the Pinto Creek and Little Pinto Creek drainages has been designated as a free use area for pinyon pine and juniper wood products. Qualified Qual-ified Iron and Wasnington County Coun-ty residents will have an opportunity oppor-tunity to obtain free use permits per-mits to remove posts, poles, or firewood from National Forest lands within the designated area for the next three years. The designated land now support sup-port a stand of pinyon pine and juniper. During the next three years these lands will be cleared and planted to grasses in order to increase forage production and improve watershed conditions. Designating the area for free use will allow local residents to make use of material that would otherwise bo destroyed during land restoration projects. Suixrvisor Shumate cautions prospective applicants that they must obtain a free use permit from District Forest Ranger Ted i Cox in Enterprise, Utah, before cutting or removing any material I from the area, and further, that , the products cannot be sold, 1 traded or used in a business ' other than farming or ranching, i |