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Show Technician Given Post In Nevada Jask Quayle, formerly assistant technician ajt the Desert Range Branch Experiment station, has gone to Nevada on a desert plant reconnaissance. He will be away most of the 'summer. For the past year Mr. Quayle has been at the desert station assisting in the experimental ex-perimental work. In his new appointment ap-pointment he will map the many enclosed plots located on the Nevada Ne-vada sheep-range deserts near Reno and Virginia City, Ely, Spring Valley and the east boundary bound-ary of the state. This study is being conducted jointly by the University of Nevada at Reno and the forest service, through the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment station, Desert Range branch. In this survey Mr. Quayle is being assisted by Mr. Ashbaugh from the University of Nevada. They will measure and record the forage on the enclosures, determining deter-mining the increase when not .under heavy grazing. This work is very significant to the experiments experi-ments conducted at the Desert range. These experiments, based on the .logical theory that the vast denuded desert areas of Utah and Nevada are not wholly caused iby weather conditions but are to some extent the result of overgrazed amd unmanaged ranges, and proving prov-ing conclusively that the deterioration deterio-ration of the desert vegetation is influenced by grazing. Mr. Quayle is well qualified for this work. During the period that he was stationed at the Desert range, his wide variety of experiences exper-iences in sheep range management, forage analysis, weather observation, observa-tion, plant growth experiments, and determining of range density, utilizations and palatabiltiy of forage, for-age, make him well capacitated for his new position. |