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Show Forester Laments Tree Removal for fence Material "Closer supervisin of fence post cutting in the state is necessary to reduce promiscuous and protect both public and privately owned property against trespass," J. Whitney Floyd, State extension forester stated upon his return to Uta hState Agricultural college after a trip through the southwestern south-western part of the state last week. "Excessive cutting will, in a few short years, endanger the valuable state watersheds and. result re-sult in a serious shortage of fence post material," Mr. Floyd pointed cut in support of his statement. "Farmers and ranchers throughout through-out the southwestern part of the state told me they were alarmed at the rapidity with which the native Utah Juniper is being cut for posts, while several men in public land administrative positions po-sitions were of the same unanimous unani-mous opinion. "One grup of ranchers withj whom I met estimated that 100,000 i posts have been removed from their county in one year. Another their county in one year. Another group indicated that fence posts f native juniper, occuring in productive stands of the pinion-juniper pinion-juniper type, were being cut wastefully, indiscriminately, and much (fatter than they were being sold outside of the state. More rigid supervision of cutting is a vital, necessary step," the evtension forester concluded. |