Show beginnings OF STUDY OF ECOLOGY professor harold R hagan of the university of utah is undertaking this summer the beginnings of an cc ecological study of the state ecology is one of the subjects in zoology I 1 and botany that is very new being only a few years old it is concerned with finding out the relationship between animals including insects and their environment of oe plant life water soil and climatic conditions attention this summer is being concentrated cent rated upon a small bov bo canyon near freedom san pete county which has very limited vegetation and a comparatively small amount of animal life the season has been spent largely in collecting to find 0 out ut exactly what plants and animals live there the collections were made also with a view of starting a representative collection of animals and plants of utah tor for the state university several hundred specimens have been added to the collection |