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Show Snow Surveys Promise Normal Wafer Supply Snow Fall Lighter This Year With High Water Content; Water Supply Will be Normal Although the Ashley National Forest area has been favored with a comparatively light 'winter 'win-ter as regards temperature and l depth of snow, the snow surveys just completed by Ashley Forest Rangers indicate that the water supply for the Ashley National Forest watersheds will be approximately ap-proximately normal in 1945. These surveys disclose there has been a light snowcover with high water content. The average water content on the Ashley National Forest during dur-ing the past fourteen year per- , iod that the surveys have been made is 8.0 inches, while the water wa-ter content for 1945 is 8.1 inches. However, the water" content for 1945 is lower than in 1944, the current average being 8.1 inches, while the 1944 average was 11.3 inches. Ranger George Walkup of the Whiterocks Ranger District, whose snow courses forecast the runoff for the Uinta River and Whiterocks Creek drainages, reports re-ports that the water content on his courses as 8.7 inches for 19-45 19-45 as compared with 12.0 inch content in 1944, and a 14 year average of 10.0 inches. The average av-erage snow depth in 1945 is, however, only 45 inches as compared com-pared with 57 inches in 1944. According to Ranger Clyde Lambert of the Lake Fork Ranger Rang-er District, whose snow survey courses forcast the runoff for the Lake Fork and Yellowstone River drainages, the water content con-tent on his courses is 8.0 inches this year s compared with 12.2 inches in 1944, and a 14 year average of 8.2 inches. Ranger lambert states that the average snow depth on his courses this year is 45 inches as compared 58 inches in 1944. Forest Supervisor Ana A. Harrison Har-rison of the Ashley National i Forest states that these snow surveys sur-veys are made annually during the last week in March by the U S Forest Service throughout the State of Utah in cooperation with other Federal bureaus and the Utah State Agricultural college, col-lege, under he supervision of George D. Clyde, Irrigation Engineer En-gineer of the U S Soil Conservation Conserva-tion service who is in charge of the Utah Cooperative snow surveys. sur-veys. According to Supervisor Harrison these snow surveys serve as a base for forest fire forecasting and planning by the U S Forest Service. |
