Show FOREST GROWING IN TUB TIM intermountain P V farming fanning and forestry have a good many points in common since both are concerned with growing crops 0 of one kind or another the federal forest service e which has under its management over 27 million acres of land in the intermountain region wants to manage its land in afie same way an up to date farmer bould manage his there are arc special problems that confront tile the farmer that are too complex tor for him to solve alone which the agricultural experiment stations undertake to solve for him in ili tile the same way the forest service requires ex ei perl Deri ment stations to solve some soma of the more complex questions of forest e st lua management nagem rit tile the great basin experiment station in the mountains near ephraim Ephr alm utah serves the intermountain region the type of work done there is rather different froia that carried on at an agricultural experiment station however partly because trees take a very long time to grow into a wood crop arid and partly because wo we know infinitely less about tree crops than the things that the farmers raise at tile the great basin experiment station the work Is concentrated upon two problems which are of extreme importance in central utah what to do with the oak brush areas that are virtually unproductive today and how to manage the aspen stands so us its to grow more useful material than la is being produced at present it appears that the problem of aspen management will be solved soiled in tile the near future although the pak brush quest ilon is far from settled |