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Show Forest Notes Personal Mention Howa.d Young, Recreational Engineer En-gineer has just completed a new recreational plan for the Ferrcn H-L-strvcir Ca.i Ipground Aiea. He left for the Fisnlake last week, but tx; ects to return in a few days to the Man.i to finish several other jc-bs he has outlined. Alf Engen spent two days on the Manti F:rest September 8 and 9. Wnile here he looked over proposed winter sports areas in Ephraim, Al.n.i and Twelve Mile Canyons. He was favorably impressed with we opportunities for skiing in this section and promises to co.ne out ..ext inter ic give the area a further fur-ther inspection when snow condi-Lions condi-Lions are favo.able. A slalo.a eoiiise in Twelve Mile, a ski jump in Manti Canyon and ski runs and iki jum, in Ephraim Canyon were .'...ated. At least a dozen ski enthusiast en-thusiast accompanied Mr. Engen on toe trip over the Forest. Dean E. Bischoff, Junior Engineer Engin-eer from the Regional Office arrived .a Ep.iraim on September 13, to m;ke inventory of water rights needed at l anger stations and campgrounds on the Manti Forest. Walter G. Mann from the Inter-.ilountain Inter-.ilountain Experiment Station Office in Ogden was a visiter at the Supervisor's Su-pervisor's Office on September 9. " Gordon Price who has been working work-ing wi:h the Range Survey Crew the past sumrr.-er left on September 4 for Moscow, Idaho, -where he expects ex-pects to attend school the coming winter. Ex-Forester Pinchot Heard From - The following letter has been received re-ceived at the Supervisor's Office f-Om Gifford Pinchot, formerly Chief of the Forest Service: Dear Supervisor Humphrey: When a man gets to be my age. there are few things in the world as pleasant as to be lemembered. And I am perfectly delighted with your thougatfulness in na.ming that ranger station after me and sending me a picure of it. Sarnie of these happy days I hope to get around and see it on the ground instead of by photograph. In any case, I am in.x'ensely in your debt, and I certainly cer-tainly do appreciate what you did. With every good wish to you and yours, respectfully yours, Gifford Pincho.fc Game Notes An open season on 100 bulls including in-cluding spikes and 100 cows from the Manti elk herd, south of the iiuntingcon-Fairview Road has been authe-.ized by the Board of Big U-axie Control. The season will be iNcvember 1 to 9, inclusive. The licenses li-censes are $10.00 per elk for residents resi-dents and $50.00 for non-residents. Applications for pe.uiit to nuai ent must te submitted to the State Fish and Game Commissioner. If applications appli-cations exceed the number to be .aken, a drawing will be held. At the same meeting the Board of Big Ga.T.e Control authorized the removal of 400 doe deer from Twelve Mile Canyon. These permits per-mits will oe on sale at the checking s..-iicn in 'relve Mile Canyon on the morning of October 19. Doe hunting will net be permit:ed, however, how-ever, until October 22, and from tnen until October 30, both dates inclusive. in-clusive. Peiixjits will cost $3.00 caoh lor resident and $5.00 for nonresidents. non-residents. No drawings for doe per-.i.its per-.i.its will be held, they will be first co.nt ti.st served. News Notes From District 3 Ranger Thursby reports many cattle dying from larkspur poison on his district this season. Because oi the drouth and the shortage of loiage, larkspur has been more palatable pal-atable to cattle than usual, tnis possibly acooun.s for the heavy livestock live-stock losses. Timber sale business on district No. 3 is the largest ever handled by Ranger Tnursby, requiring approximately approx-imately two days work each week, coxixercial sales and the Self-Help Self-Help Cooperative tin.loer m Biacs uanyon makes up the principle part cf the business. Since the recent showers Ranger Thu.sby has had two crews of men working on brush disposal. Limbs and tops as far as possible have been dragged into washes to check erosion. Many of the sheep outfits on district dis-trict 3 are becoming pinched for i.eed. The sho. tage of moisture has produced little second growth. During the past month a number of range improvement projects have oeen completed with ERA labor in the vicinity of the Lake Ranger Station. Sta-tion. The terracing and seeding of badly eroded areas in the head oi cphiaim Canyon is progressing satisfactorily sat-isfactorily under the direction of Mr. Frank Cheney. CC.C labor is being used. On the head of Pleasant Pleas-ant Creek the Mt. Pleasant Soil Conservation Service enrollees are e racing and seeding the critical aie;s in the head of Pleasant Creek. This work was planned by A. R. Crcft, of the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station at Ogden. During the recent heavy showers the terraces all held very satisfactorily. Recreational No es The travelers register at the Lake Hill Campground, established the latter part of June had approximately ap-proximately 1200 names by the first tf August. Visitors froml all parts of the United States were found on the register. It is believed also, that many 'of the visitors failed to sign so that no doubt, the number of visitors exceed considerably the nurr-lber shewn. Miscellaneous Notes The Range Survey Crew expect to coti:(plete their field work on district dis-trict No. 6 this week. This will leave Eph.aim Canyon only, to be done. After which, compilation of the data will be commenced. Most of the crew expect to leave in the near future for their various homes or the schools where they expect to .esume their studies. The work cn the Skyline Road to date shows three miles of road completed and gravelled and one snd one-half miles of road now ready for gravelling. Unfavorable aenther conditions have slowed up toe wo.k considerably. A great many people have collected col-lected seed of the native brome his season and are anxious to dispose dis-pose of same. Any Forest wishing to purchase seed of braxus carina-tus carina-tus should contact the Forest Sup-erviso.- at Ephraim and he will direct di-rect them to the individuals wiho have the seed on hand. Our ERA crew, working under Claua'e Maylett reports that they have one mile of log and block fence corr.lpleted in Millers Flat, 'and tirrlje cut for approximately another an-other half imiile. |