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Show Dixie Forest Advisory Committee Names New Prexy Dick Nelson, Iron County farmer, far-mer, was riamed chairman of the Dixie National Forest Advisory Committee Saturday at a semiannual semi-annual meeting. He succeeds Ianthus Wright as chairman. The organization is composed of men representing business, industry, livestock arid agriculture, agricul-ture, education and sportsmen. I The multiple use management j concept tttat guides the forest policy was discussed at the meet by Howard Foulger, forest supervisor. super-visor. He pointed out that various var-ious uses of the forest, timber harvest, grazing, water shed, or recreation, are managed in terms of the greatest public Interest. Earlier in the week rangers and staff members of the Dixie National Forest had met to coordinate co-ordinate programs of forest management. man-agement. The meeting ot the forest personnel. Is held each year to familiarize rangers with planning and development. Among the regional specialists who participated in the meeting were James Usher and Ed Carna-han, Carna-han, engineers, who outlined techniques in road and trail construction; con-struction; Robert Terrell, who discussed timber harvest, and Mont Lewis who outlined methods me-thods of deer and livestock management. |