Show association WOULD CONTROL STATES NATURAL RESOURCES salt lake city the intelligent control ot of natural resources now alarmingly less abundant than they have ever been Is th the e aim I 1 0 ot f tile the utah natural resources resource association acl as reported in fit a I 1 brief by dr ft A lit woodbury bury university of ot ui tah scientist who is acting secretary slid and Itea treasurer surer of the organization i tha association cognizant of the I 1 great diversity of natural resources in the state has seen the need of some ponie sort of centralized admonis t tation that will insure closer coop oration crati lit in all phases of conserva gioi work than exists at present a niona the doen or more state agen bips each He interested rested I 1 in its own par tl thular ular problem with but little un da 1 for a related program the central agenes which might if r as a a department of conservation would have jurisdiction rf cp r f renewal e dewalle le and nonrenewable non renewable rr alike and its personnel would be made up ill of specialists in cv ry fiell which would rive give the r a deR rable non cill stamp the paper calls calla atte attention to the pla pa ebig denudation of timber lands overgrazing over grazing commercial exploitation Plot tation of mineral and other re founces coerces from which utah derives little or no benefit and even dese cra oration tini of ruins and other resources of scientific and historical val it 10 dr woodbury basing his statements on reliable authority points cut that it is estimated that nine tenths of the crop of pre ruins ruing have been desecrated pilfered or excavated and that the majority of the relies relics have been lost or removed from the state it is known that the he work of pilfering goes on despite the efforts of federal and state governments to curb it there Is only one crop ot of ruins and when once spoiled they are gone forever prominent scientists from all three utah colleges governmental bureaus and other scientific societies as well as public spirited citizens make up the directorate of the association which was formed last year |