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Show Replantprogram started by Forest Service In May of last year with small patches of snow remaining re-maining on the north slopes, the Panguitch Lake Ranger District experienced its worst forest fire of the year. Strong winds gusting to 50 mph swept across Southern Utah. A large pondcrosa pine tree was uprooted by the wind storm south of the Panguitch Lake campground. It fell across a pcwer line igniting a fire that was very difficult to control. Only with the assistance as-sistance of resort owners from the Panguitch Lake area, were Dixie National Forest crews able to control the blaze before be-fore it reached the developed campgrounds according to District Ranger Norman L. Huntsman. This week Lyle Wilkinson, Ron Beetbe and Elmo Lee are replanting the iburned over area with ponderosa pine seedlings. Commercial timber killed Iby the fire was logged last summer 'by the Stratton Brothers of Cedar City. Small trees killed by the fire were felled and pushed into (piles where they were burned iby Dixie National Forest crews last winter. Now that the snow has receeded, the area is ready to receive a new forest for-est cover of two-year-old ponderosa pon-derosa pine trees. |