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Show Revegitation Of Range Lands Project To Start Within the next few days a range revegatation project will get underway on Mosby Mountain, cattle allotment area. This announcement an-nouncement was made Wednesday by William Worf, forest ranger, who is directing the project. According to Ranger Worf the project will cover 600 acres and wil start in the next few days. Areas to be treated will be the mouth fo Mill Creek and Grouse: Creek on Mosby Moutnain. Purpose of the project is to restore re-store the. acres of range land to its original productivity and to aid in stabilizing the IocaL livestock industry. ; As much of the area to be re-seeded re-seeded will be control burned in an attempt to remove the sagebrush. sage-brush. Before burning, firelines will be prepared by using bulldozers and ploughs to hold the fire in the areas of moderate slopes that can be seeded. Crested wheat Smooth Brome and Bubescent Wheat seed will be sown. Areas that can not be burned will be ploughed and drilled. drill-ed. That which might be too rocky will be treated with a Dixie Harrow Har-row and seeded. According to Ranger Worf the contract for preparing the burning areas with firelines has been awarded to Joe Reidhead and Del-mar Del-mar Hamblin of Roosevelt. |