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Show Have Field Day At Desert Range Station ' ! The Forest Service in coopera- lion with the.U. S. Bureuu oi Land 1 Management, the Utah and Nev-i Nev-i ada Kxtension Services, and the I Utah Section of the American Society Soc-iety oi! Range Management held a field day at their Desert Range i Branch Station located in Pine Vul , ley some 60 miles Northwest of Milford, Utah. The Desert Experimental Range was established in 1933 to gather basic information leading to improved im-proved management of winter ranges. ran-ges. All the experimental studies are set up to determine il) the utilization of forage species by sheep, i'2) i he influence of precipitation pre-cipitation on growth of forage, (3) the effect of grazing on forage, sheep weight and wool production. The field day. and range toui was under the direction of Rei .1 W. .Bailey, director of the Desert Range Branch Station. The range tour made four general stops covering cov-ering (1) winter ranges, (2) the ' experimental pastures, (3) the effects ef-fects of vegetation on erosion, (4) the recovery of Black Sagbrush. Speakers during the event in order or-der of the appearance were Lincoln Linc-oln Ellison, o'f the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Sta- tions in Ogden, Utah; Warren Gray from the Bureau of Land Management Manage-ment in Salt Lake City; Pratt All- j red, district grazier of the BLM I in Mllmore; belar Hutchings, a , former director of Experimental I Station and now the Intermountain Intermoun-tain Forest and Range Experiment , Stations in Ogden, Utah; Wilford ( Wintch, stockman from Manti; Thomas Buckman, with the Nevada Nev-ada Extension Service; Carl Frisch knecht, director of USAC experimental experi-mental stations, Albert Albertson, chairman of the Utah Section of : the American Society of Range Management; C. Wayne Cook, national na-tional membership chairman of : the livestock cooperators on the Desert Experimental Range. The summary of the day was given by Dr. Lincoln Ellison. : |