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Show Comprehensive Use . . . Forest Ranger Speaks to Kiwanis Club on Land Use Ranger Stephen M. Rushton of the Pleasant Grove Ranger District was the guest speaker at the Pleasant Grove Kiwanis Kiwan-is Club last Saturday, Dec. 12. Ranger Rushton introduced the Comprehensive Land Use planning effort now underway on a part of the Pleasant Grove District. The planning area includes in-cludes all of American Fork Canyon and the main Provo Canyon, including the South Fork. This area includes 108,-522 108,-522 acres of National Forest land, 2,060 acres of city land, and 3,000 acres of state land. Ranger Rushton reviewed the past and present uses on this area stating that the grazing of livestock, timber and wildlife, are significant uses on the land but because of other resource values and limitations, are not increasing at the rate of water values and recreation. He said that the recreation activities are increasing at the rate of 8 per cent a year and that the facilities to accommodate the recreationist are decreasing by 2 yer cent a year. Ranger Rushton showed several sev-eral maps depicting the broad scope of uses that exist on this area and identified each use as it relates to the overall management. man-agement. It is the intent of this planning effort to better coordinate co-ordinate the many uses of this area and to prepare a Composite Com-posite Recreation Plan that wlil provide for an orderly, well-coordinated well-coordinated development and administration of the increasing increas-ing recreation use. The National Forest lands, in this area, must be considered consider-ed as a part of the total land use planning effort. The quality qual-ity of this planning effort must be judged by the degree it relates re-lates and coordinates with adjacent ad-jacent land uses and activities. Identified in the planning process pro-cess is the involvement of other oth-er governmental agencies, both local and state, and the user public. "This plan must reflect the desires and coordination necessary to realize the greatest great-est long term values of this area," Ranger Rushton said. Ranger Rushton solicited the help of the Kiwanis Club in actively ac-tively participating in this planning effort. He explained that an intensive effort will be made in the next 6 weeks to gain public input and review of this planning effort. |