Show The Forest Ranger's Diary by Gem- I- District Forest Ranger Altonah Ranger District May is a busy The crews are except for the students returning from college and the teachers we hire as Fire and Recreations May generally brings about major cleanup of the and a look at the range maintenance work needed to harvest the timber crop and haul the logs to the Dick Assistant and I attended the annual Ashley National Forest Ranger's and heard some real interesting discussions on National Forest Experts are brought in the Regional Office in Ogden to train and discuss with us any new Supervisors office personnel also gave training sessions on recreation management and multiple use management of National Forest Speaking of very soon people will be getting out the old fishing pole and thinking about those annual trip to the high Please also think about methods and means of keeping and leaving a clean cam p Every year we of the Forest and other agencies spend many dollars cleaning up after careless This money could be better spent on new We have been working on new developments in Swift Creek and at Moon Lake At Swift Creek we have placed a new transfer camp with horse stalls and unloading for use by people going into the high country on pack The Moon Lake campground has new units and black top New barrier work has also been completed to prevent people from driving out into the camp area and Indiscriminately parking One of the big- gest problems in a developed campground is the trampling and soil compaction that takes place around the To lessen the barriers are added around the they are made of either rock or log and made to blend In with the surrounding country the snow is melting fast adding water to the water that eventually end up on the rich fields of the Basin to start another cycle of |