Show Timber Sale Set By Ashley National Forest Additional areas of timber are being readied for sale on the Roosevelt Ranger District of the Ashley National Ranger Bill announced This is line With the Ashley Forest program of increasing the timber harvest in order to fully utilize the timber together with Ranger Floyd Noel of Timber Staff Officer Allen Dahlgreen of Vernal and Assistant Ranger Gene Kuhns spent 5 days last week cruising timber on an area near Paradise The 4 forest officers traveled six miles by snowshoes to Paradise Guard Station where they made The area cruised was mixed pine and Englemann spruce timber which is over ma-lure and ready for This approximately will be advertised this spring together with an area previously The two areas will have a combined volume of about 15 million board explained that a timber cruise is a scientific random sample of an area in order to determine timber logging and access road This information is used to make an appraisal of the timber In the near future we plan to advertise several smaller timber areas in order to meet the needs of all timber |