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Show Summer outdoor science program opens with 100 school children participating The very popular summer Outdoor Science Program is again being conducted by Principal Clemont Adams of South Elementary School with assistance from Stanley Shak-espear Shak-espear and Mrs. Robert Moiling. Moil-ing. This year the class has been expanded and involves approximately 100 children of all elementary school age groups in conservation of our natural resources. They have a plot of ELM administered land above Cedar Ce-dar City where they have been filling in gulleys, planting plant-ing grass and deer browse, and removing pinyon and juiper trees. On a recent trip to a ELM revegetated area south of Cedar Ce-dar City, Berl Lowry, ELM gave a lecture to the class. The students were told reasons rea-sons for such r?vegetation projects and shown the aso -i ated ecology of the area. Erosion Ero-sion control, wild animals, wild flowers, browse plants growing after being planted by a seed dribbler, different grasses and their giowth relationships rela-tionships to moisture, In.lian petroglyphs, etc., were all cag- i erly reviewed by the students. Students taking the ela-s this summer will acquire nvre than a passing interest in the ! world around them and their! relationship to it. 1:mJx':, :j: . .... :.; - ? - s " STUDENTS were all eyes and ears as BLM Natural Resource Specialist explains the life cycle of the noisy noi-sy 17-year locust (cicada) which are very abundant this year. j |