Show Conservation On I The Local Scene I Special from Sanpete Soil Cons Conservation Office Offic ManU Manti Ephraim Carl Wilker Wiker Fullmer Allred Claud May May- ctt George Gcorge Barton Parley Madsen Madsen Madsen Mad- Mad sen LeGrand nd Olson and C Carl Car a r I 1 Wilker all from Manti a and n d Perry Plummer Howard Orr and Paul Hansen Hanson of Ephraim attended attend attend- ed the range tour last week week- at LaSal Utah The tour was sponsored sponsored sponsored spon spon- by the Utah Chapter of the American Range Society and while at LaSal we were t the h e guests quests of Charley Redd and the Redd ranches Charley showed us us many hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of acres of range land formerly growing only sage sagebrush sagebrush sagebrush brush but now producing an excellent crop of crested wheat wheatgrass grass Charley says that since the program began h hhas he has realized a bigger lamb crop heavier lambs less loss of lambs I and easier management problems I lems The land was seeded in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management by plowing the brush and seeing l inch to toI I 1 I inch deep in the fall He plans to reseed many more acres Me l met Charleys Charley's family at LaSal where Mrs 1 Redd served soft drinks in the afternoon a asteak asteak asteak steak supper at night and breakfast breakfast breakfast break break- fast in the morning Lunch the next day was served at Lester Taylors Taylor's Bar A A. It was a very enjoyable tour and only one thing was wrong not enough ranchers were there Nature does not give any any- thing It lends It will continue continue continue con con- lend the i iloan to as long as loan is returned When nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing is paid back nothing is lent Nature keeps a constant balance between its income and loans When the loans are not repaid the borrower man and not the lender nature is elim elim- Anyone who ignores the balance of nature docs does so at his own peril Nature will maintain its ts balance balanc by overthrowing him Ayers Brinser and Ward Shepard in Our Use of The TheLand Land |