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<br />Navajo'Recreat,ion.Conference -- On May ZO,and21, 1965, the Navajo
<br />. Tribe and BIA co-spons.or.ed the.firstannual Recreation and Toudsm'
<br />Conference at Page.,. Arizona. Registration totalled 117 .participants,
<br />including representation from five Tribes, five Chambers.of Commerce,
<br />plus'State, Federal and private organizations. The conference was.
<br />broken into three workshop groups dealing.withpromotion, management,
<br />and programing.aspects of the field of recreation and tourism. A high-
<br />light of the general sess ion was the talk on "Recreation inthe -Southwest"
<br />by Bill Davoren. It was an interesting and informative conference.
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<br />Bure.au of Land Management
<br />Area Representative Salt Lake City
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<br />General Operat ions - - Topsoil, Range and Water Management
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<br />Natural Are.as -- From among .more than 100 areas on the public lands,
<br />the Bu reau of Land Management has. selected 16 small "natu ral area"
<br />tracts, which will be valuable chiefly as outdoor laboratories in fields
<br />of scientific study such as forestry, geology and ecology.
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<br />Three of the.areas.areinCalifornia -- a centuries-old forest of rare'
<br />Baker .cypress trees growing in a bed of volcanic lava, a .grove of Pi ute
<br />cypress, and.an excellent stand of virg in bitterbush valuable for com~
<br />parative studies. The selection in'Arizonaisastand of unusual oak
<br />hybrid. Colorado has three areas--a mes.a featuring 17 species of
<br />nat ivegrass es, an ar ea famous for its rare snakes and lizards.; and
<br />nearly 700. acres of active 'sand dunes. Five of the tracts are .in Nevada
<br />--a stand of bristlecone pine" a pinyon-Joshua transition zone (aneco-
<br />log ical oddity), . a nat ive mountain meadow 7, 000 feet high, a stand of
<br />pygmy sage, and 240 acres of wild carrot"" ferns and other species.rare
<br />in'Nevada.
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<br />RecreationSites - - Although BLM has no method for making an accurate
<br />estimate of the number of visitors to public land a.reas, there is,a tremen-
<br />dous upsu.rge inrecreat ion us e of the 464 million acres administered.
<br />BLM now operates 112r ec reation sites on the public lands inthe western
<br />States' and Alas ka.
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<br />Classification and Multiple Use -- A hearing was held March 25 in
<br />Washington, D. C., on the proposed .regulations to carry out the Classi-
<br />ficationandMultipleUs e Act and the Public Sale Act of 1964. Other
<br />hearings were held during April in Twin Falls, Idaho; Reno, Nevada;
<br />Albuquerque,. New Mexico; and Grand Junction, Colorado. Preliminary
<br />discussions had been held earlier in the year in 62 locations throughout
<br />the West. Groups giving general endorsement of the. proposed rules
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