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Show Forest Rangers Talk Over Plans For Season The district rangers, supervisors and staff of the Ashley National Forest met Thursday and Friday March 9 and 10 to discuss various problems and work plans that face them in the determination of national na-tional forest land. Those present at the meetings were: Forest Supervisor Su-pervisor Gil Doll, Forest Rangers Ernest ,C. Hirsch, Glen A. Lambert, Lam-bert, Bill Worf, Jesse Palm and Merlin Bishop. Other staff men included Administrative Assistant Claude Bruce, Road Engineer Ward Evans, and Assistant Rangers Ran-gers Allen Dahlgreen and Gene Kuhns. Also present during Thursday, Thurs-day, when fire control was discussed' dis-cussed' were Boyd Rasmussen, forester for-ester in charge of fire control at Ogden, and Wayland Mattsson, also al-so of the fire control division of Ogden. Thursday morning was devoted to a review of suppression action on large fires that occurred on the Ashley Forest during the past year. The Rangers discussed the various problems that arose and ways of improving their action on future fires. "Through these discussions dis-cussions we can determine where we can improve on our fire fighting fight-ing techniques and, by an ex-1 change of ideas and criticisms, we can improve our handling of fires in the' future," Doll stated. Fiscal problems were discussed by administrative assistant Claude Bruce on Friday, followed by a discussion of road improvement plans by Ward Evans. Rangers Palm and Bishop discussed dis-cussed the highlights of the interagency inter-agency USDA meeting they recently recent-ly attended in Provo on Feb, 28. The remainder of the me'eting during Friday was devoted to a discussion of the recently completed com-pleted Forest Service Timber Resource Re-source Review. Through this discussion dis-cussion the rangers and staff were given background information on the timber Resource Review as well as localized applications of this information. "All in all the meeting was very successful in that each ranger and staff man was able to get a better understanding of the problems found on the forest, both on his district and other areas of the forest," Supervisor Doll said. |