Show popular forest ranger of southern utah A t w and northern arizona retires from duty the retirement of benjamin ranger of the dixie national forest foiest was announced thursday of last week by albert albertson albe artson supervisor at cedar city on may 31 ranger I tanger swap completed 30 years of service riding the ranges of the national notional forests tor for uncle sam ie he entered the serece may 4 1914 on the kaibab national forest in arizona the forest reser reserves v es as the national forests were then known were e yet young ranger recalls tile the time when cow outfits on the kaibab held grazing permits up to as a many as head of 0 cattle each range management lacked the facilities ot of improved watering developments for livestock and the miles of fences that exist today on forest ranges fo for r the control of grazing trespass by large of livestock was a difficult condition to control cont iol he rode roda the ranges never 1 reaching caching home for six months at a time ire he blazed the trail for foi location by tile engineers of the early eaily grand gland canyon highway flir through ough the kaibab forest foiest and conducted the first big game counts made by the forest foiest service in the states of arizona arizon a and utah on april 1 1917 lie he was transferred to the powell national forest and was stationed at sweetwater and later at too soe where filere he personally constructed ted the buildings and improvements prove ments of the supervisors headquarters then located there on september 1 1920 he was reassigned to the kalbac and had yearlong headquarters headquarter s at the old dl d ryan rya n r ranger a r s station t a tio the deer D er were i yere r rapidly api d ly increasing i ncr e sting and he devoted much of hla his work to protect the range against excessive grazing by the kaibab deer herd which within a few years became nationally benoun ed ad when the deer numbered upwards of head he trapped hundreds of deer which were here shipped to eastern w zoos and transplanted to other areas he autopsied deer to determine term liae their eating habits to find information tor for range management agen tent on may 1 1927 he wv waa assigned to the dixie forest dorest and was vas stationed first at leeds and later at st george and pine valley where he had charge of the pine valley ranger district on february 1 1934 he was given charge of the enterprise ranger district and resided with his family at enterprise since assignment to tile the dixie forest he planned and supervised the building ot of the plus pine valley Vs aley and enterprise ranger stations his work has included supervision of men during 11 seasons with crews engaged in the control of bark beetle in commercial iner cial timber stands during special assignments to tho wa wyoming abley find and uinta forests jre he has constructed 82 miles of telephone lines and supervised the building of miles of forest roads 56 55 miles ot of trails miles of range lange fence 19 corrals and range water developments used by permitted livestock ranger hanger was ft as born bom at al luna valley new mexico feb rury 22 1884 and moved with his parents to kanab when he was the five years of age he spent ills his early life as a cowboy on ranches lanches in southern utah arizona and nevada he was married august 4 1903 to elizabeth of oe tropic and has five th e tons sons and daughters burns and gordon ot of cretu mrs mis ellza eliza sargent oi 01 brovo mrs elfonda waters of lark and mrs mis lorna shumway of kanab he has recently purchased a farm faim at kanab where bere lie he plans to make his future home among his many lifelong fi lends friends and users of the national forests in this part of the region where he has spent nearly his entire career as forest ranger |