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Show Cedar - Parowan students help with forest camp grounds spring cleaning As a final project for thai year, two schools participated! in conservation activities on the Dixie National Forest earl-' ier this spring. Chester Benson's sixth grade class at Parowan Elementary School, and LaVan Bauer's fifth grade class at South Elementary Ele-mentary School in Cedar City assisted Forest Service personnel per-sonnel in cleaning two heavily heavi-ly used campgrounds, and readying them for the busy re-cneation re-cneation season. Benson's class worked on the Vermillion Castle campground five miles up Parowan Canyon, Can-yon, and Bauer's fifth graders helped at the Duck Creek campground on Cedar Mountain. Moun-tain. Both groups were enthus-astic enthus-astic and very hard workers, Fo: ?ster Peter Brost reported. The students picked up trash and litter along the highway and in the campgrounds, camp-grounds, and along both Duck Creek and Bcwery Creek. They scrubbed picnic tables, installed in-stalled signs in the campgrounds, camp-grounds, and helped to repair other lost or vanished equipment. equip-ment. , The entire time was not spent working, however. The groups discussed campground management and maintenance, mainten-ance, and look at examples of vandalism in the campground? and tried to come up with ideas to reduce such senseless sense-less acts. They observed and tested old and dying trees in the area . that could possibly be safety hazards. These were marked for removal. |