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Show I On Manti National Forest 1 Wells Thursby has been appointed ' to the position of Forest Ranger 'with headquarters at Ephraini. lie ' 'commenced work on May 15. 1 i On April 0 Rangers, Olsen and ! 'Thorpe made a trip on snowshoes ( to the Mammoth Station for the pur-4 pur-4 pose of checking over the Forest ser-j ser-j vice property cliarged against Mr. j! Thorpe. At that time the snow was ( from 5 to 7 feet deep on the higher elevations. The pasture fence at the , Station was entirely covered by j snow. . The grazing season for the indian-ol.i indian-ol.i and Lake Shre cattle and horses 1 opended May 1. Owing co the late spring and the slow plant growth but few cattle have b'ien driven on t(. the Fores'. The Fairv'ew-M'lbtirj sttvhmen will be unable to tuin ; their stock jon - the Forest range;; I -null before June 1 o;. account " I ic feed due o the very late .se'-c.i. j A jmall heru of deor wlntcirM ii I Lake Fork near Thistle. Hanger I Olsen reports that they are In excel-! excel-! lenl condition that Is if the deer ' which scampered away look as well 'as the four which remained for a moments Inspection. On May 15 Supervisor Huniphery and Ranger Wells Thursby marked timber in Ephralm canyon and Inspected In-spected the lower cattle ranges from where the snoiw has gone. The snow Is from 2 to 4 feet deep In the j'tlm'ber in the vicinity of the Black i Springs less than three miles Inside j.the Forest boundry. The District office in their Educational Educa-tional Campaign against carelessness with Are in the National Forest, is arranging to mail out 90 sets ofcolor-ed ofcolor-ed fire slides to the different Forest headquarters in District number 4 Two sets have been received at the Supervisor's offlee. These will be shown at different movie houses In 'Sanpete County between reels during the coming season, i Ranger Howard is the first mem- ber of the Mantl force to make an arrest- for the violation of the State Game Laws (for 1920. On April 4 Ranger Howard caught boys killing kill-ing ducks near the Bear Creek Station. Sta-tion. The boy doing the killing was taken 'before the Juvenile Judge at Huntington where he pled guilty and was fined $10.00. During the calendar year 1919, '704 Forest Are ocoured in the lnter-mountaln lnter-mountaln district. Of these Railroads Rail-roads were responsible for 9, lightning lightn-ing for 228, incendiary 3, brush burning 9, campers 257, lumbering '9, miscellaneous 27, and from unknown un-known causes 162. When you stop to consider that campers are responsible re-sponsible for 257 of these fires of known orgin is it any wonder that the Forest Service is planning an energetic educational campaign for enlighting the public as to the seriousness ser-iousness of the fire situation? Very few of the Forest fires occurring in District No. 4 occur in this sec- . tion, however, in these days of rapid transportation, we do not know who will spend part of their vacation in ' the sections wher 'fires ;do most damage and the Forest is accordingly accord-ingly carrying the message of "care with fire" to everyone they can reach in the intermountain region. It is reported that during the last thirty days the losses among cattle pn the Eemry County side of the 'Forest have been quite heavy. They j.have had but very little storm, however, how-ever, they have had severe winds almost daily and the weather has j been too cold for the feed to grow. Severe losses of sheep during .the early sheariiy? season have been reported. re-ported. Permittees from Idaho and othiyr outside points are reported to have lost heavyily during the early April shearing. A Spaniard ranging rang-ing in Emery County committed sui-xide sui-xide because of his heavy losses during dur-ing lambing. The road construction on the east side of the Forest is progressing nicely. Mr. English the Engineer 'u charge of the work from the head of Straight-Canyon and west had 'completed nearly three miles of the new road at the time of Mr. Martin's visit on -May 4, while the clearing of the right of way had been completed com-pleted considerably father. Carful estimate place the amount of timber destroyed by fire in the j United States since its first settle-fment settle-fment at one trillion seven hundred 'and fifty billion board feet. During , this period it is estimated from the I best date avaiable that there has : been lumbered from standing timber in the United States one trillion one hundre'd fifty billion feet of timber i more than has been manufactured and used by the people in the United States since the landing of the Pilgrim Pil-grim Fathers. Or at the present 'rate of cutting timber enough to have lasted the United states for more than fifty years at the present rate (of consumption, i |
