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Show Dixie Foresters Plan Program For 1959 Summer Season Forest rangers of the Dixie National Na-tional Forest and their assistants assist-ants are meeting with the supervisor super-visor and his staff in Cedar City this week. Supervisor Howard Fculger said that during the week-long meeting plans, policies, and objectives ob-jectives would be outlined for the management of the forest resources. re-sources. A broad scale conservation conser-vation program will be discussed discuss-ed calling for accelerated development develop-ment and management of timber, water, recreation, range and wild-life habitat resources on the 1.900.000 acres of the Dixie National Na-tional Forest Increasing the timber cut from the present 23 million board feet to 35 40 million board feet within with-in the next five years will receive re-ceive special attention. This program pro-gram will call for the construction construc-tion of .many miles of timber access ac-cess road and the planting of tree seedlings. L( velornent of recreat'on areas for the rapidly increasing tourist trade is a current problem prob-lem of major importance. During the past year over 600,000 people visited the Dixie Forest Staff officers Henry Ketchle, Wayne J. Cloward, John Riley and Reed Thompson are conduct-ing conduct-ing the meets, with Rangers S. Bron Cook, Orville Danields, Foyer Olsen, Donald Cox, Jack- ftnn n f art A Jnhn Srranir Rnh- ert Williams' and Richard Sanders, San-ders, and members of their staff In attendance. |