Show Ashley Forest names Timber buyers Forest A R. M of the Ashley National announced to day that a total of nearly twenty four million board feet of was sold to two separate timber purchasers within the past The two timber sales combined contain an estimated saw-timber volume of million board feet of lodgepole pine and approximately million board feet of Engelmann spruce Mr William E Sweeney of Great Lake Timber Utah was the apparent high bidder on the Johnson Bench The timber was sold on June and is comprised of approximately million board feet of lodgepole pine and million board feet of Engelmann The timber was sold for a rate of per thousand board feet for both including per thousand board feet for slash There is also a per thousand board feet road amortization deficit for this The Johnson Bench timber sale is located on the Roosevelt Ranger District and is approximately four miles west of the Paradise Guard Station in the Lily Lake Creek-Johnson Creek The construction of miles of required timber access road will be subcontracted by with road 35 miles to the com-ce within the next two weeks Logging and hauling will begin later on this The logs will be hauled approximately 35 miles to the cam-pany's sawmill at District Ranger G. Val Simpson of the Roosevelt Ranger District will be the timber sale officer in charge of this The Big Park Timber Sale on the Vernal District was sold to Ivan Anderson of on June 23 This sale contains approximately million board feet of lodgepole pine and million board feet of Engelmann for a total of million board It is located five miles west of Trout Creek Guard Station on the Hacking Lake and is approximately 38 miles from Vernal by and blacktop Anderson is currently operating a sawmill near Heber and plans to establish another mill in the Vernal area within the near He does not plan to commence logging on the Big Park sale until the but will probably commerce preliminary work on the 4 23 miles of required timber access road late this This sale was sold for a total of 85 per thousand board feet for both including for slash The road amortization rate deficit is per thousand board District Ranger Thomas H Sevy of the Vernal District will be responsible for administering this timber In the timber to be cut on these two full consideration was given to the coordination needed to achieve multiple use management of all of the Forest uses and resources in the sale areas The needed coordination was included in both the sale preparation phases and the timber sale contracts for the respective These These have been planned in a manner which will permit the harvesting of old disease and insect-infested and replacing them with vigorous reproduction without to the other Forert uses and |