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Show Plans Made For Forest Field Day Plans for the second annual field day to be conducted September 3 and 4 by the Intermountain Forest For-est and Range Experiment Station about 50 miles west of Milford, Utah, were announced Tuesday by Reed W. Bailey, director. The programs are being drafted in cooperation co-operation with the Utah State Agricultural Ag-ricultural College extension service serv-ice and the University of Nevada extension service. Stockmen, ranchers, foresters, and others interested in the use of the desert range are being invited to attend the tour cf inspection, to study the results of four years of experimental work on well managed range and to take part in the special program to be en-ducted en-ducted at the branch station headquarters head-quarters in the evening of September Sep-tember 3, Director Bailey said. Experiments will be explained and the tour conducted under the supervision of Dr. George Stewart, in charge of range investigations f.r the intermountain station, and Selar S. Hutchings, in charge of the desert station. "About eight years ago the forest for-est service became vitally interested inter-ested in the conditions found on the desert range of western Utah," Director Bailey said. "Cattle and sheep owners who were running their outfits on the desert range reported that the lamb and calf crops were light; that the livestock were getting poor and many were unable to survive the winter season. sea-son. Sheep lacked Vigor aid costly spplemental feed was re-qired re-qired tz curtail heavy losses in the flocks. "As a basis for assisting tie stockmen in maintaining their herds and flocks in a thrifty condition con-dition throughout the winter season, sea-son, investigations were begun for developing and improving the desert des-ert range. The federal government govern-ment in 1933 ear-marked 55,000 acres of land in the western part of the state for the forest service to divide into study pastures and a camp of CCC workers was assigned as-signed to fence the area and build the station. Research has been in progiess at the desert range station sta-tion since 1932, the results of which will be seen September 3 and 4 by those who attend the field day programs," Director Bailey explained. |