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DAILY NEWS - INTXRMOUNTAIN IiEGION Ogden, Utah, July 1, 1937 . C. K. McHaxg, Assistant Regional Forester, in charge of State and Private Forestry in Region 1, was an office visitor yesterday. Re had been vacationing in Coloraao and stopped off in Ogden to see our office and nome of his acquaintances enrouta to Missoula, Montana. During the day he was taken on a short trip to Ogden Canyon and over a part of the recent addition to the Cache National Forest. * INS AND OUTS Miss Arlene Burk of Operation retuned to the office today after an absence of three months in Washington, D. C. Miss Burk spent three weeks vacationing in Washington, New York, and other points in the East, and the balance of the time c;n a detail to the office of Persorinel Management. Arlene looks well and says she enjoyed her assignment. Of course, we are all happy to have her back with us. Regional Forester Iiutledgc is back in the office today. He and his sons-in-law, Kenneth Jacobsen and Lyle Stcvens spent a week trecking the hills of Idaho and doing a little fishing. WHEELER BASIN INSPECTZD Last Tuesday, Supervisor A. G. Nord and Ranger H. H. Price of the Cache Forest, and F. C. Koziol of this office, accompanied Messrs. Robert M. Hoggan, S. IT. Wherry, E. J. Fjcldnted, J. C. Goodfellow, Louis H. Griffin, Heber Scowcroft, Lawrence Farr, and Vard Armstrong of the Ogden Chamber of Comierce, and J. M. Jones, V. N. Beatty and Harold Tripp 3f the Utah Power and Light Company, on a trip of inspection over the Wheeler Basin watershed in Ogden Canyon. The water from this area, they state, is unfit for. hmn consumption and this condition can be remedied by protecting tho area from overgrazing. The Utah Power and Light Conlpmy recently turned over 2,520 acres to the Forest Service for adrninis tration, however, no rehabilitation work on the watershed be undertaken by the Forest Service &ti1 2,400 acres of privately owned land Exre acquired, this land to be purchased with funds raised by the Chamber of Commerce. NEW EMPLOYEE Laurence E. Srni th of Portland, Oregon, reported at this office 'this morning for duty in the Division of knge Management. Mr. Smith will work under the direction of Orango A. Olsen and be assigned to fish and game work on the National Forests of Idaho. Xe is being transferred here from the Soil Conservation Service, having been in their employ for the past year and a half. He previously worked for the Forest Sarvice in Regions 6 aild 9. THE OiXE LICK METHOD . ,+ . "011 Saturday norning, April 24, a fire meeting was held about five siles west of Camp F-1, Mystic. Those attending were Rangcr L. C. Anderson, several of his key men, the facilitating personnel, an? %bout sixty netv enrollees of Camp F-1. "It was planned to start a small fire in the dead cyclone timber in order to actually demonstrate fire suppression. Sowever, due to t'ne extrerae high wind and low hulnidity, it was considered too hazardous and in lieu of this ?la1 it was decided to test out the so-called 'ONE LICK XETIIOD' of building fire trails. "Two crews of twenty men each were selecteC! from among the enrollees. These Inen were all untrained in fire suppression mid were still in their ten-day conditioning period. A foreman mas api~ointe?.for each crew and with only n few minutes of preliminary instruction the crew mere started off building two parallel trails, about twenty feet apart. One crew was instructed to use the lO"I\TE LICK METHOD1 and the other the standard method in which each man is assigned to complete a certain number of feet of line. The conditions were the same for each crow, eke ground cover Being fairly scaiity, for the most part bunch grass and kinnikinnick. "At the end of seven and one-half minutes, time w?,s called. The completed line for each crew was paced off md it was fomd Chat the crew using the 'ONE LICK W,THOD' had coiqleted one hundred twxity yards of line, while the other crew had conpleted only sixty yards. "It was unanimously agreed by those present that this method has tremendous possibilities, at least in the Black Hills. At the same time it was apparent that it would require a better organization of crews and n good uliderstanding by the forerwn of the proper distribution of tools." --The Bulletin, R-2, June, 1937. CONCESSION SPROVED FOR MIZiROR LAK!3 Saddle horses, meals, groceries am3 soft drinks will be available at Mirror Lake, in the upper reaches of Prcrvo River, as the result of a pernit granted Tueschy by the Wasatch National Forest to J. M. knn, salt L&e City. Ca'ijins will be ready for use probably by mid-August. The Ranger1$ Wife Feel sorry for the Ranger's wife; The Ranger has no night, no day; She leads a most unsettled life. Xo schehlecl time for rest or play. Though mrried she r~~ststay alone No dawn or dusk, since almys he Should the Raxger junp at the ring On call to serve mankind mst be, of the phone, And thus it is his faithful wife And iil his sweetest manner say, Must lead a most unsettled life. "Another fire? - I'm on my way." (BY E. M. Zimmerm, Jr. Forester, R-9) Approximately 250 people, residents of VVillard axd Brighar~City, Utah, visitefi the Willard Cmym watershed yesterday, U~~OIIinvitation of Supervisor Nord of the Cache Forest and. Superintendent Smith of the Willar2 Soil Conservation Servica CCC Camp. The visitors were shown all of the ' coriipleted flood control inprovexents and those which are pro jectod for this s-ler. The Willard Canyon watershed is now under complete public control since the land purchase program initiated cooperatively between Box Elder County, the State Road Conmission, and 3righai-a City has been coni$eted. This purchase consists of 1,800 acres of lend at a cost of a;?proxir*mtely $6,000. 1t is uq3octcd that eventually the land will be donated to the Cache National Forest for adr,iinistratisn. Until further notice, all of George L. Nichols1 field inspection dates are cancelled &ue to his illnoss. George is r~~akin,:satisfactory progress toward recovery. OGDEN RIVER-TELLSVILLE MOTJNT&LN BILL PASSES SENATE On June 29 the Senate passed and sent to the House the bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to use receipts from the portion of the Cache National Forest in Utah for the acquisition of dcwged privately owned uvater- shed lands. This measure will be a big sTep in miniri,izing soil erosion and f 100d Canage and sill bring tnis area under organized fire protection. Civic C~II~San2 other orgazizntions in Cache, Box Elder aud Febcr Counties have been largely responsible for the passage of this bill in the Senate. RZmNS E'ROIV~VACATI ON Helen C. Pwne, clerk ic the Division 9f Range Man<agement, has rcturned from a three-weeks vacation. She visited in Nontana, the Pacific Northwest, and took a 3-day trip to Alaska. She reports iszvin,: had. a very enjoyable trip It is quite rmar1;able how effoctivo and lastins is the training on the job which boys get ill the CCC CEL~~.A recent issue 3f I1Tine"arried the follo~iilgcxar-lple: "In Manhattail, arrested. while hckii~gat a fire hydrant witb an ax, Jams Boyle explainet in court: '1 found the ax on ny way hone from u tavern ad just couldnt t resist the ilqulse to chop so:xn thing down. I used to be in the Civilian Conservation Corps.'" Enjoy your smoke, enjoy safety too, Put out the spark whim you are through. TOOELE 'JILL GIVE CVATXRSIBD ACWE !PO FOREST SENTIC3 According to this ~lorninglspress, some 2,500 acres of watershed lands in Settlement and Middle Canyons will Se made by Tooele City and local service clubs to the Forest Service in the new future. The land mill be offered as a nucleus for a nmjor addition to the Wasatch National Forest. Prelirainaries lookinq totrard tlie forual proffer of the land are now being made, according to Earl Marshall, city attorney. Supervisor J..E. Gurr of the Wasatch Forest recently conpleted a casual survey of the areas proposcd for inclusion in the Forest. He was accolqanied by Tooele city and council gfficials, representatives of the local Lions Club and Junior Chasnber of Corxierce, and representatives fron other interested ccixiwrities. The LJOS~1ova7~1e ar,d livalr)le quality t2la.t any liwn being can possess is tolerance. Tolerance is the vision that mables us to see things from another's ;3oint of view. It is the generosity of spirit that cmcecles to others tile right to their om opinion and individuality. It is the bseac!th of mind that enables us to want those we love and respect to be ha~jy in their own way and not in our way. # if## DAILY NETS ,M'k'M # #,f$,$# Ogden, :# 11 TRAINING OFFICERS VISIT Re 0. Messrs. John N. Kirmey, A. X. Standing, Thos. Van Meter, with Peter Keplinger, Chief, Persoilnel Division, Washington D. C., and Ray Lindberg, training supervisor in Region 6, arrived in this off ice Thursday from Idaho. They had attended a fire guard training conference at tho Cottonwood Ranger Station on the Boise Forest the fore part of the week. Mcssrs. Keplinger aad Lindberg will spend several days in the aegional Office discussing personnel and training matters with members of the Divisions of Personnel Management mid Operation, following which Mri Xeplinger will return to Washington.