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Show Desert At Its Best Now, Says Report If you have been planning a trip to see the desert in bloom, now would be an excellent time to make the outing. The weather is not too warm for the trip, and of course you will not need your coat. Spharaelcia is now at its colorful best. Every week several visitors are shown about the Desert Branch Experiment station, 50 miles west of Milford. Not only :he practical minded stockmen who an see only the forage value of :he most beautiful desert flower, but the aesthetic, too, are among :he guests at the range. In the 55,000 acres of the experiment station, one may see areas of ex-:ellent ex-:ellent forage, beautiful flowers, md an even green cover, or barren ivasted desert with only the misleading mis-leading green of Russian thistle showing. At no time of the year is the marked difference in overgrazed j ireas and properly managed areas more strikingly illustrated. At :he experiment station one may rraphically see the relative condition con-dition of forage between areas grazed under various degrees of Intensity, between properly managed man-aged range and the open range. :he very marked difference be-:ween be-:ween range which has been grazed :o the extent of one and one-half; heep per acre, and that which has j seen grazed to the extent of two ' ;heep for each acre, the very rapid recovery of desirable forage plants, .inder proper protection, the en- j roachment of unpalatable forage , species on overgrazed areas, and I ;he absence of the undesirable' olant specie on well managed and properly stocked areas, the absence of gullying and other evidences of floods on well managed areas these are all in evidence at the Desert Branch Experiment station. sta-tion. Anyone interested in range conservation, con-servation, flood control, or many other phases of public resource (Continued on last page) Desert At Its Best; i ' (Continued from first page) ' management and conservation' through sustained ield. should visit tile station. The technical force at the sta- ' lion is willing and glad to conduct " visitors over the area, explain the different experiments and show what has been done and what is being done to improve the sh.ep ranges of Utah. , Solar S. Hutchings, assistant ' forest ecologist in charge at the I range; Perry Plummer, junior j range examiner; Hen Merrill, clerk, and Hosmer Bjarnson, junior assistant as-sistant technician, are always eager to assist in giving visitors an interesting itinerary. |