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Show . ; ..Li L.,;:i , .. -4 jUfr. t NEW CREW. Each summer the Dixie National Forest is able to hire a crew, most I of them young people, who are able to do work needed the year round. j Dixie Forest aids Young People l I Summer is here. young people to work: Four The kids are out of school. are female, five are Indian, i Time to start thinking about many are local, some come backgrounds. For everyone on the Dixie, it's going to be a good summer." digging out tne camping 'i gear, loading the station i wagon and taking a nice long I vacation. I For the Forest Service, f though, summer means hard work. While the weather is i warm and the ground is s clear of snow, employees of i the Dixie National Forest I will be working on a wide ' spectrum of resource management projects, i The people who "get the ) job done" on the Dixie are predominately young, j Some are members of the j Young Adult Conservation j Corps, a government j sponsored human resource program in which the Dixie National Forest actively participates. Others are hired directly by the Forest Service for the summer work season. Young people working on the Powell Ranger District, under the direction of District Ranger Walter "Pete" Pierson, represent a cross section of this "grass roots force" of the Dixie. Pierson has put over 25 irom distant states. These young people work hard on a variety of projects. They plant trees and build fences, maintain campgrounds cam-pgrounds and install camp-fire camp-fire grills. They clean litter from roadsides, stablilize stream banks, and build water troughs on rangeland. In short, they provide the muscle without which a National Forest can't be run. "The staff of the Dixie National Forest believes that young people should benefit as much from their summer work experience as the Forest does. For this reason, District Rangers like Pete Pierson make a great effort to recruit people from different backgrounds, different races and both sexes," District Ranger Rollo Brunson said. "For some, a summer job will be an introduction to the great outdoors. For all, their jobs will provide not only valuable work experience, but lasting friendships with people of different |