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Show Forest Notes CCC Fcremen Visit Davis County Watersheds CalTlp Suiperintendant Frank R. Wartlien, Ferd Rcsenlund, Frank o:wney and Leland Ohristensen from Cam!;j F-50 imade a trip to the Davis Ccunty watersheds on August 15th for the purpose of looking over the soE erosion structures on those areas, Supervisor Hu3iphrey- accompanied ac-companied tlhetm to Ogiden. Skyline Drive To Be Closed Soon Tile work on the Reeder dugway is such, that it will be necessary to close the Skyline road from the Spring City read and north and frdaa the Ephraim read and south for a short tine while 'a; seatioru of the new road is wfcdp.Jed into shapes T. e road will prctoa,bly be closed for approximately 'i(hl!rty K'Jarys beginning begin-ning about Auirust 21st. Closed notices will be placed where t.-.ie Spring City road reaches (the Skyline Sky-line and along the Ephraim Orange-.'ille Orange-.'ille road. The rwk crusher wlhdch will prepare pre-pare gravel for the Skyline road is being set vj;i and will shortly oa.nh imence to burn out gravel for that part of tie Skyline road lying nctrth cf the Little Horse Shoe. Hughes Canyon work to St rt An R-5 Caterpillar tracor left the AnR-5 Oaterpillar tractor left t:.e OCC Calrp east of El. (.'.raitoi fcr the Monument riag'e where a new section sec-tion of road is to be constructed (juhich will enable the Soil Conservation Conser-vation Service to reach the reseed-ing reseed-ing area in the head of Hugthes Canyon. Can-yon. They plan on doing considerable consider-able w:rk on Uais area in an at-td.Tjpt at-td.Tjpt to eliminate furt'.iter flood damage in Clat section. In the past, several floo'dis originating on t'r.e .upper reaches of Hughes Canyon watershed h!a,ve carried rr.lud and silt ijown into the Right Fork of Huntington Hunt-ington creek in sufficient quantity to destrcy the fish in that stream. Between Hughes Canyon and tf-e J'orks itfte Soil Conservation Service plans cn constructing something irlore tV.lan 2000 d:.ns. It is fcbpad Ithese diams wd prevante further da iiage from the run off in that -ocality. Beaver Planted The five beaver planted In the I'-ead of Mamti Canycin in 1938 have apparently done reasonably well. At least one of these aniimals has mn-grated mn-grated down as fiar as Yearns reservoir res-ervoir where it has built a home. Setae of ttote otjhers have re.r.ained and have undouWedly praaiced young during the past year, siaice a number of little beavers have been seen by the sportsmen who have visited the .area wlhiere Uhey were planted. Of the flwo beavers planted: in Twelve Mile Canyon nothing is known. Some workers observed Vxm sdntetime last fall but since that time they have apparently disappeared. disap-peared. Of the three beavers planted plant-ed in the lake above the Great Basin Bas-in Experiment Station, one died ana U is not known just what becaime of the others. Reports have reached toils office to the effect that a beaver bea-ver djm tias been observed m t.,ie water between the Great Basin Experiment Ex-periment Station .and Willow Creek. S wus also soma, evidence tir.'ese. animals Uprkmg m the stream above the Experiment Station. Deer Control At a -meeting of We Bdard of Big G.fme Central in Salt Lake Cy was decided to remove 900 hornless ible number rt? forest ita property owners ranges. authorized t.Xnkss elk. Tfne 150 bulls and 15 Lrn1 Ule re- SPT300 elkMh 100 were movtal of 300 elk oi 40 te nUVebi7succeful this ers will 'te reaso na mity hexe- K-s issued ln.. sold. . A REAL BEAR STORY i of Tirppk Lynn Everett, One day Lpr from Mt. a Biologica urveytrap ,jrisUan. PIeafrf rSfsefout a n,tr,ber of sen that He ad s losses S Smngbeei1 reported. fra.nl bear kiiung . to accan- The Ranger was invited to a- Parny the trapper cn his rounds to icok over his traps. This he declined ito do, saying the enly time he had ever seen a bear .was when fce was either without a gun, or at test had noticing more mitlh' . r than a six-shooter. six-shooter. Ranger Christiansen declined de-clined this invitation and' went to took aver the range iwitihi Justus Seely land Alien.. Syndergaard. Tn--y ran into a- large black bear on this trip that .had one front foot in a trap. T. is bear was believed to be the killer that hlad been doing damage dam-age to the i-Jerds on ,tJhle north end of 'the Sorest. They were afraid he miy;-.'t get out cf the tr?p and got away so they decided to kill hirr but just now they did not know. After sctee discussicn and search they found set xle heavy oudlgels with wriich they attacted Mr. Bruin, they i found him. hen ever, a rather clever boxer and it Ui s saxs t:J.i-,e before , t'.e 'Vis beaten into SElii-ccnssious-cess. Once tir,ey .r.iad ihin helpless, however, the ranger grab:ed cue of his hind legs 2nd stretched it out '-Ie Mr. Syndergaard placed a pole a-crrss Ihis moirtib so he c;ula' not bite :nd thus he was Ibeld w'r.ile Justus Seely cut 1 is threat with a pocket knife. The Ranger says they did a very good job hut he thinks it is iruch easier to kill t':ia.n with a six-'.'.booter six-'.'.booter tban in te l.r.lanner stove cited. Road Maintenance Progresses Tt-.e read maintenance crew h:s just ccl.rpleted the maintenance of tne Perron Canyon road from the top of the mountain to Willow Lake. T.-.e Clay Springs road from the head of the Muidy to Clay Springs and t'e Skyline Drive frclrj nort.i end cf ti'.-.e Forest dawn into Gunnison Gunni-son Valley has teen maintained. They have also craintained the Beaver Creek road and TUelve Mile Canyon road frdr the forks to the e. limit. After coir.' feting this job it is expected t'rat the heavy rains will again c;.:ur ahlo' will neccessi-t'te neccessi-t'te ; :ing the aork ever aga:n. Oi! Hruse Ccmpleted Tlt)3 r.ew cil f.ouse in Dhe rear cf the e.-pervisor's Office has recently teen ccmpleted with CCC labor under un-der the supenision cf Foreman Tcners. The boys have also completed com-pleted a fence on the Service caned yards in the sarr; locality and t ey have get a good stert on ehe nev equipment s td which will be used for storing Govemxent equipment during the winter .xonths. Drought Drought cor.'ditiens on the Manti Fcrest are daily grcning worse. The copious se.iei.V'ers that occured during the early part of the month' have a Jent their strenghth and like the "Kiri :" in the story cf the P uraohs :?rerT.l, lle.'S range seei.r.ed to be even drier th:n before. Unless additional rains put iLn trieir appearence in the near future rar.lany of the pernntted stock are going to be out of feed before be-fore the end of the present grazing season. |