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Show CONSERVATION PROJECT. Scouts from Cedar Breaks and Brian Head Districts participate in project of thin- ning pinon trees on deer winter range. Instruction on project given by BLM officials. Scouts work on conservation pro ject staff do not go very far in taking care of the 1.6 million acres . of public land in the Cedar City District. Only by people themselves being interested and involved in taking care of their lands can we as a people hope to preserve and care for this important im-portant part of our heritage." BLM thanks the Boy Scouts for this project as well as others accomplished in the past. One hundred ' twenty-two scouts and scouter.s from the Cedar Breaks and -Brian Head Districts of the Boy Scouts of America recently spent a day on the Cedar-Parowan Front deer winter range rehabilitation rehabilita-tion project cutting out young regrowth pinyon trees. These young trees, if allowed al-lowed to grow to. maturity, would steal . sunlight and moisture from ' the valuable winter deer forage beneath, eventually causing their death. - Under the direction of the Bureau of Land Management's Area Manager, Gordon Stak-er, Stak-er, the scouts were-taught the importance of the deer's winter win-ter range - and that juniper trees should not be cut down as they furnish . emergency winter feed for the'.deer when deep snow covers the browse and grass. Quality pinyon Christmas trees were also left standing. Mr.' Staker said,'' "We in BLM recognize, that; our an-1 nual appropriations from Con 1 gress along' with our small! |