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Show BLM recognizes Cedar City for efforts made in solid waste disposal A "Certificate of Appreciation" Apprecia-tion" for services rendered in improving the environment of America, was presented to Cedar City's Mayor Loren Whetten by Birton W. Silcock, national director of the Bureau cf Land Management, Thursday. Thurs-day. Silcock indicated that the certificate , r e c o g nized the special effort that the Cedar City Corporation has made for the management of solid wastes. In a letter of commendation which Silcock read at the luncheon meeting attended by civic leaders and bureau officials, of-ficials, it was indicated that 'the cleanup of the old dump southwest of Cedar City, which certainly was an 'eye-sore' to the touring public as well as the local interests, was a maj-or maj-or step toward enhancing our environment. Your involvement involve-ment of others including the BLM and the Boy Scouts of America, in achieving this goal was most appropriate." The point was emphasized with the presentation of a framed Certificate of Appreciation Appreci-ation from Johnny Horizon. Johnny Horizon is a mythical outdoorsman that is used by the Department of the Interior as the theme for a. nation-wide program to protect an enhance the lands and resources administered ad-ministered by the department. "C o mmunities throughout Utah can take a cue from Cedar City," the BLM director indicated in recognizing the combined efforts made to solve the solid waste problem for the community. Last September, as part of the nationwide Johnny Horiz-on Horiz-on Cleanup Days, about 40 Boy Scouts and their leaders from the Cedar Breaks District Dis-trict spent a day picking up five truck loads of trash on a road leading to the old city dump south of town. City officials of-ficials provided equipment and a truck operator for four days and BLM provided a bulldozer and four men. An estimated 50,000 cubic yards of trash was burned or buried. Then 2,300 cubic yards of fill durt was spread over the site and the hillside was shaped. Finally, seed was planted and the dump that had been an eye-sore from Interstate 15, formerly VS. Highway 91 for 18 years was converted into a pleasing landscape that can now serve other purposes. "I extend my sincere thanks to you for assisting us in the cleanup of the public lands and congratulate you on this special achievement In promoting pro-moting a pleasing landscape in the proximity ot your delightful de-lightful city," Silcock stated. Other BLM officials in attendance at-tendance for the special presentation pre-sentation were Robert D. Niel-son, Niel-son, BLM state director for Utah, and Harold E. Isaacson, the bureau's Cedar City District Dis-trict manager. In accepting the Certificate Mayor Whetten extended his thanks to the BLM and especially espec-ially to Cedar City District manager Isaacson for their efforts In helping Cedar City to effectively convert from an open burning means of garbage garb-age disposal and solid waste control to that of the land fill method and for his leadership in coordinating the cleanup of . the old dump site. The national director noted the emphasis that Is being placed in the Public Lands and the need for Land Use Planning. He indicated that the BLM is going to be concerning con-cerning itself, more and more, w'th the need for energy and indicated that he expects that we will be hearing considerably consider-ably more about coal, oil shale and geographic resources resour-ces of the public lands in the immediate future. He noted that "our public lands should be managed and that eSforts would be made to accomplish that task throughout through-out the 1970's." |