COOPERATIVE 

 PROJECTS 



Research organizations frequently require 

 help from similar units and reciprocate by 

 giving special help of their own. Cooperative 

 projects with the Utah Division of Wildlife 

 Resources, the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and 

 Wildlife, and the Agricultural Research Ser- 

 vice have been mentioned previously. Many 

 other types of cooperative projects have also 

 taken place at the Great Basin Station. 



From time to time, Station personnel have 

 responded to requests from schools and ser- 

 vice clubs to discuss Forest Service research 

 generally or Great Basin projects specifically. 

 For several summers following World War II, 

 the Station was locale for a 2- or 3-day outing 

 for 4-H clubs in Sanpete County. Station fa- 

 cilities have been used for numerous training 

 sessions for Forest and Region personnel. A 

 2-week Range Research Seminar (July 10-22, 

 1939) was attended by nearly 60 range man- 

 agement research specialists and adminis- 

 trators from all western regions and from 



Washington, D. C. 11 Over the years it has par- 

 ticipated in occasional research projects of the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station of Utah 

 State University. The Station's long continu- 

 ous record of climatic data for Ephraim Can- 

 yon and the Wasatch Plateau frequently has 

 proved invaluable. 



Since 1966, Intermountain Station has par- 

 ticipated in a cooperative project in teacher 

 training sponsored by the Utah State Depart- 

 ment of Public Instruction. The Inter- 

 mountain Region of the Forest Service also 

 has participated actively in this development 

 of instructional programs and in directing 

 field trips and related activities. The project 

 essentially is 5-day workshops designed to 

 prepare teachers in elementary and secondary 

 schools to teach fundamental concepts of 

 conservation and of improvement in quality 

 of the environment. The 5-day sessions are 

 planned for groups of about 40 teacher- 

 students, and the number of sessions per sum- 

 mer has varied from one to four. 



Instruction includes demonstration of the 

 function of vegetal cover in reducing overland 

 flow and stabilizing soil, identification of use- 

 ful plant species, identification of numerous 

 birds and mammals found in Utah wildlands, 

 and demonstration of effective techniques for 

 teaching fundamental conservation concepts 

 to young people in the elementary and 

 secondary schools. 



Response by the Department of Public In- 

 struction and by the teachers has been en- 

 thusiastic. An interesting and unexpected 

 byproduct of this project has been the chang- 

 ing of many teachers' image of the Forest Ser- 

 vice. Until their direct contact with it at the 

 Great Basin Station, many of them had pre- 

 sumed the Forest Service was largely if not 

 solely a law enforcement or fire protection 

 agency. They have been literally amazed to 

 learn about the Forest Service activity in re- 

 search and management relating to recreation, 

 wildlife habitat, watershed protection, live- 

 stock forage, timber production, and other 

 uses and values of wildlands. 



11 Sec Proceedings of Range Research Seminar. 

 Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 414 

 p. (n.d.) This volume contains 35 professional papers 

 and discussion of them. 



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