| Show occupied He made frequent trips on theRG train to Ogden supervising the office there and later traveling by automobile to Provo where the office was then located Trips on during show snowshoes the snow winter up to and snowmobiles months the were Pictures roofs of the made taken sometimes during that time houses Prior to his retirement in 1979 Mr Plummer made two visits to the USSR representing the Department of Agriculture While there excursions were made in rugged built vehicles made by the Russians in which they explored for species Basin of plants that might be used on the Great range Some maintain Stevens number studies local men were employed through the years to the facilities at the Great Basin Station Frank Paul Hansen and Gary Jorgensen being among that They also assisted with and research projects some of the scientific Daily journals were kept on the studies by the Directors of the Station DIr Sampson noted that the initial research program at the Station included nine projects related to grazing and silviculture Among the officially designated studies Protection Grazing vs Erosion was the longest continued and is best known today These studies resulted in the curtailing of the devastation floods that had caused so much destruction in the early days of the history of Sanpete County Journals relate the following Because of the success of the early work few persons in valley towns today can remember any destructive summer flood roaring down from the Analysis of watershed problems mountain top revealed that problems of range management and grazing practices were inextricably related to it Research in range seeding continued during the Progress during this period 1930and 1940 developed suitable procedures for many large scale projects in range revegetation and also providedbackground for important later research Contributions Frischknecht by Perry were Plummer especially 76 and Neil important |
