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Show i " Officials Pay Visit j To Desert Station i ' Considerable progress has been j made the past few years in water- shed studies in Davis county and I in studies of range restoration j and managment in Utah, accord-J accord-J ing to W. R. Chapline of Wash-j Wash-j ington, D. C, chief of the division j of range research of the forest service. Mr. Chapline returned to Ogden after a tour of the Davis county I erosion control works andtheDes-j andtheDes-j ert branch experiment station j west of Milford in company with District 4 forest service officials. Approximately 50,000 acres of land has been fenced at the Desert branch station of the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Forest and Range Experiment Experi-ment station. In cooperation with practical stockmen and the Utah State Agricultural college, range management problems have been studied there. Series of pastures have been developed to assist in the intensive study of range restoration, res-toration, grazing capacity, season sea-son of use and mineral deficiencies deficien-cies in the forage of the western Utah area, Mr. Chapline says. A fine crop of desert grasses and palatable shrubs were produced pro-duced as a result of favorable rains this spring in the vicinity of the Desert branch station. The favorable forage stand is in contrast con-trast with the depleted areas where heavy, uncontrolled grazing graz-ing has eliminated the palatable grasses and shrubs. Dr. Earle H. Clapp of Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, assistant chief of the research division af the forest service, Reed W. Bailey, director of the intermountain station, and Dr. George Stewart, experiment station official, accompanied Mr. Chapline on the tour. Mr. Chapline was to visit other ! experiment stations in Utah and Idaho before returning east. I o |