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Show Utahns Warned To Conserve Natural Resources Utah's farm, range and livestock live-stock resources are the lifeblood of the state and unless they are better protected the people dependent de-pendent upon them must leave, declared Dr. George Stewart, ecologist for the Iotermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station at Ogden. Dr. Stewart spoke to nearly 100 cattlemen and guests at the annual inspection tour of the Spanish Fork Cattlemen's Assn., held recently. "The best way to protect our resources is to leave enough-forage on the ground after grazing to build up organic matter to furnish the plants with food. Plants starve to death unless there is good fertility in the soil. Our resources will last another thousand years if properly protected," pro-tected," Dr. Stewart said. The U. S. Forest Service official of-ficial delivered his message at Indian Spring in the Strawberry Valley in a program enjoyed by the group after touring the range on the Uintah National Forest where more than 5,000 head of cattle are grazed each summer by the local cattlemen's association. After eating a hot meal at Indian Spring the group toured Horse Creek to look over an area ar-ea of good range that had been properly managed and where feed was abundant. Ranger Merrill Nielson. Spanish Span-ish Fork, was in charge of the program and Dan Gull president, introduced the speakers. Speakers and visitors included E. E. Hendricks, Salt Lake City, state brand inspector; J. Vern Hopkins, Salt Lake City, chairman. chair-man. Production Credit Corp.; J. Earl Hicken, president, Heber Cattle Assn.; E. Darrell Stokes, Wasatch county agent; and Dr. George Henderson, of the Utah Extension Service, Logan. |