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Show Forest Notes American Forest Week Local officers have under way a program for the observance of American Amer-ican Forest Week. Many people do not know: That more than twice as mucn tlm. ber is burned each year as is cut. That much more rapid timber growth occurs on areas where up to date forest management is practiced than on areas covered by Virgin forest, for-est, or areas left after cutting without consideration for a future cut. That from thirty to fifty years is sufficient for a second cut firom forested for-ested areas "where good forestry methods are followed. ' That the first forest fire we know of since settlement of the state, on what is now the Manti Forest, occur-ed occur-ed in the fall of the year 1854 in Manti Canyon Some fishermen allowed al-lowed their fire to get away in the dry grass along the creek, burning hundreds of acres of choice timber before it was finally extinguised. That comparatively few fires occurred oc-curred On the forests in this section of Utah before its settlement by the ' white people. This places the blame, on the. white people fan the burning of at least two thirds of the forest ! areas found in this locality. RANGE CONDITIONS Henry Jensen reports measuring the snow on the terrace east of tha city spring on April 21,. at the (time ho was measuring, the flow of the spring. He stated that the snow was ! 4 and one half feet deep on the level J ind that the flow of the sprrng snows ( a slight increase since the last meas- j ui ements were made. This would ( seem to indicate that a part of the ! moisture from the winter snow Is now going into- the ground. I John Bench and Vern Jensen made ;now measurements in ' Gooseberry uid Flat'Canyon on April 21. They reported finding an average of 62 and one half inches of snow, with a water content of 26 inches. The snow was well packed, and it was .lossllble to get airound anywhere with lut snowshoes during the forenoon. We have some cattle ranges where he grazing season .opens on May 1.1 s'rom present indications, the feed is goinig to be extremely short this year on that date. Game A bunch of four elk are reported fo have, wintered in Sky High, Dairy Fork, and Mill Canyon. These nimals were poslbly driven from 'Jebo Foirest, or from the southern part of the Manti Forest in the elk runt staged in the fall of 1925. Deer are plentifrull everywhere on he low range near the Manti Eorest. 't is surprising the number of mount-lin mount-lin lion that have put an appearance n the last six or eight years, follow-ng follow-ng the exceptional increase in the lumber of deer. Tree Planting Local forest officers will plant wo thousand 1- 2 yellow pine trees some time the first of next month. These trees were grown at the Sav-mac Sav-mac nursery In Montana. If the lanting is successful, we plan on ilanting more of these trees eacji year. Traffic Registers Registering devices have been installed in-stalled on the Ephraim Orangevllle ind the Fairview Canyon roads. Re-jlstening Re-jlstening devices -will later be installed install-ed in Huntington and Straight Canyons. Can-yons. New Fire Legislation Senator Hollingsworth's Senate Dill No. 32 provides under Sections 5 and 6 that: ' "Any person who negligently or wilfully exposes any growing trees, shrubs, brush, grass undergrowth, or cultivated crops, on any lands, public or private, not his own property, prop-erty, to danger of destruction by fire shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. "Any person who negligently or wilfully sets on fire, or caiuges or procures' pro-cures' to be set on fire, any growing rees, shrubs, brushs, brush, girasa, undergrowth or cultivated crops, on my public -or private, not his own nroperty Is giuilty of a misdemeanor. |