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Show Forest Notes Want To Retain Ranger Ranger Anderson reports that the people of Huntington are protesting agains taking off of the ranger from Disrict 5. The livestock association as-sociation and the city officials feel that the protection of their range and the city water supply justifies the employment of a man on that district at least during the summer months. There are thousands of campers each year along the 'Huntington 'Hun-tington creek which furnishes the water for domestic purposes to the towns of Huntington, Cleveland, Lawrence, Victor, and Elmo, while the finances of these communities are such that it is impossible for them to do more han chlorinate the water that is turned through tho city water system. Game Warden Makes Arrests A few days ago Deputy Gama Warden Turpin cf Fairview, while driving along the state highway near Manti, observed a young man hunting in what appeared to be a favorable territory for pheasants. Stopping his car and making use of his field glasses, Mr. Turpin had to vait only a few minutes until he heard a shot. Hurrying down to where the young man was hunting he was just in time to see the hunter wring the head off a pheasant pheas-ant and slip the bird Inside his shirt. The young man was very much surprised to find a game warden war-den had been watching him, and he was ready with the old excuse that "everybody shoots pheas tnts, so why do you pick In me?" A day or two later Mr. Turpin apprehended 4 young men who were shooting up signs along the state highway, securing a signed admision from the boys who were later brought into court. ..Two of them were fined $25 each and the other two were turned over to the Juvenile judge because they were under age. If a few more convictions convic-tions of this kind could be brought about it would certainly reduce the expense to the city, county, state, and Federal governments in the re-placmnt re-placmnt of signs each year that have been ruthlessly destroyed. Snow Measurements Ranger Thursby and EUiott Jolin-son Jolin-son left Ephraim on the morning of March 3rd to make snow measurements mea-surements at the Experiment Station Sta-tion and on top the mountain. The total precipitation for the month of February was found to be 1.90 inches at the Oaks statr.m and 2.26 inches at the ' Experiment Station. There were 43 Inches of snow at the Station and the minimum mini-mum temperature for February was -3 degrees. Trapping Licenses Recently a man made Inquiry at the Supervisor's office as to whore a trapping license could be secured. Frankly, we were unable to tell him. It was later learned that Charles Rasmussen of Gunnison and J. A. Larsen of Fairview seU trapping trap-ping licenses for Sanpete County. Elk Destroy Stacks Deputy Game Wardens made a trip into Lower Joes Valley February Febru-ary 11 to 14 for the purpose of up-praising up-praising the damage done to stacks of hay belonging to Nad Olsen and Sam Aiken. They found that 13 head of elk had been doing all the damage. The elk would leave the stacks early in the mornings and return again the following nigh. A few days later 3 of the leaaers of htis antelered herd were shotby the game officials and others. This acion, it is thought, will stop further furth-er damage at the ranches. Livestock Meetings Mr J O. Stewart from the District Dis-trict Office at Ogden accompanied Supervisor Humphrey to Orange-vills Orange-vills on February 25th, where they met with the cattlemen of Orange-ville Orange-ville and Castle Dale in their annual an-nual meeting. Carl Wilberg, Geo. Sitterud, and E. R. Cox were reelected re-elected as officers of the association. Representaives from the Emery and the Ferron' associations were also present. The meeting went off reasonably well except that the stock men are demanding that some definite program with respect' re-spect' to the management of elk and deer be arranged for. After a management plan has been agreed upon it will be possible to regulate the number of game animals to the carrying capacity of the ranges they use. The treasurer of the association reported that livestock to the value of between $3000 and $4000 had been saved last season on the Horn mountain range through the employment em-ployment of a herder. The losses on this range have heretofore averaged av-eraged approximately 10 per cent. For 1929 the losses were reduced to 5 per cent. The " annual meeting of the Mt. pleasant Cattlemen's Association was held in the City Hall on the evening of February 27. All thj old officers were re-elected with the exception of wo. Thse men were replaced by T. M. Christensen and J. F. Christensen. After the election elec-tion of officers, points of interest to the- range users were 'discussed. The stock men went on record as favoring the keeping of all outside stock off the Birch Creek range in the fall. They favored making n reduction in the number of shee,) permitted on heir stock range whero early lambs areg rown, since this class of stock rea.uires more forage than do the ewes with the later lambs. Other questions were discussed dis-cussed as with the advisibility of making separate range units for cattle and sheep. Ranger Thursby and Supervisor Humphrey, representatives repre-sentatives of the Forest Service, were in attendance. |