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Show II. PERMITS HER Tl I OCGUPHKT ACT j: DF MARCH 4 E. S. Carter, assistant to the chief in the department of silviculture in the Washington offico of the forest service, has returned to Ogden district headquarters after several days spent in examination of Standard Timber company cutting areas on the Wa-' Wa-' satch national forest. R. A. Brown, road surveyor in the Ogden district, has completed the season's work on the Ephriam-Orange-villo road which connects the towns of Ephrlam and Orangeville across a range of mountains forming the MantI national forest. The road is being built by the state, counties of Sanpete San-pete and Emery and the forest service. serv-ice. Mr. Brown leaves tonight for the Teton Pass road project where ho will assist C. B. Morse, forest supervisor, , in solving some of the engineering , problems which confront the crew now engaged on that stretch of high-way high-way construction. The road is described de-scribed as an interforest road. It extends ex-tends across parts of the Palisade and Teton forests. The work being per-, per-, formed now Is confined to the Palisade Pal-isade section of the highway. W. B. Rice, in charge of entry sur-vevs sur-vevs in connection with the lands department de-partment at the local district office, has just returned from the Wyoming national forest whero he was engaged in making boundary surveys. Applications for occupancy permits from the Cache national forests have been received at local forest headquar-ters. headquar-ters. The forest is the second in the intermountain district from which applications ap-plications have been received for per- ; i mits under the occupancy act of ; March 4, which permits the forest Bervlce to lease lands within the na-' na-' tional forests for a period not to ex- Iceea av years ior buuuum. uumea ui other recreation purposes. Attractive sites are laid out in the forests and are rented at reasonable charge. The rate depends upon the j natural attractiveness of the site, the purpose for which it is to be used and j the valuo of the improvements to be i constructed. The policy of renting forest lands for these purposes has been in effect in other districts in the intermountain intermoun-tain country for some time. With the ' increasing number of visitors to the - national forests in district , during , the summer season, the advantages af- i forded in the forests as recreation ter ritory are becoming better known with the result that a rapid growth of this " feature of forest service activity is an ticipated. |