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Show CITY OFFICIALS ASK AID OF YULE TREE BUYING "Dont buy a Christmas tree unless un-less it bears the green and white tag of the state' urges J. Whitney Floyd Chief forester-fire warden of Utah- The prrimay purpose of the tree sales-registration and tagging program pro-gram is to curb the existing Uegal cuttng of trees from private, state, and federal lands, and to discour- age the sale and use of those trees by those merchants who have not obtained their trees from legitimate leg-itimate sources. It is not the in-tenton in-tenton to discourage the sale and use of trees for Xmas but rather, rath-er, to discourage the theft of Xmas trees and to control cutting cut-ting practices that contribute to the damage of our watersheds. |