Show RIDES ON SNOW the snow Is 43 inches the snowmobile with special wide tracks rides easily on top of the deep The radio rain gauge is about IS feet Trips like this will be a thing of the past the gauges are fully functional as they will be read from a courtesy Vernal Radio Rain Gauges give new automation concept Of measuring snow professor is designer of gadget no win use LaMar G. Wilson Soil Conservation Service Roosevelt Office Measuring snow depths in the has been a challenging adventure for the trained snow surveyors of the Soil Conservation But this may soon give way to the automation of the Space The has completed installation of a number of radio rain gauges in the Uintah Basin on an experimental will be read from a All the radio rain gauges were installed near a regular rain gauge or snow During the experimental these radio gauges will be read by the snow surveyors at the time they make the readings of the regular rain and readings will be compared until officials are sure that the recording information is If these radio gauges prove they will be read from a and it will be possible for surveyors to read them after every major or at any time the Information is without making costly trips to the site by By plane all of these courses would be read in a couple of whereas it now takes eight to nine days to read them by snow The radio which reads the gauges is a small portable which may be used either in a snow machine or Of the seven radio gauges installed in six are on the snow courses in the Uintah These are located at Paradise Julius Mosby Kings and Spirit The seventh is at The radio gauges were designed by Dwayne professor at Utah State They were installed by Gregory L. Pearson and Garry Dinsdale of the State LaMar Wilson of and Lorin Hunt of The U. S. Forest Service gave permission for installing these gauges on their and the snow surveys are made cooperatively by and A new snow machine is in use by the in the Basin this It was manufactured by Thiokol Chemical Corporation at and features wider cleat-type tracks which permit the machine to travel on top of During the past has also installed new regular rain gauges at Grizzly Ridge and Burnt Creek on the Vernal-Manila Ashley Windy Jackson Park and Brown Duck These new Installations bring the total number of rain gauges to 20 in the Uintah This will provide more complete information for stream-flow The others are at Indian Currant Rock Paradise Julius Mosby Kings Cabin and Spirit |