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Show Planting New Forests For-ests on Reserve. Officials of tha Menti Forest Ee-serve Ee-serve ars attempting n stupsndous undertaking un-dertaking this fall, an undertaking that will require the time of a good many weeks, and that will cost the United States Government a good many dollars. But it will in the course of many years return a hundred hund-red fold and more, the value of every dollar and every hour of time given to it now,. The undertaking is nothing noth-ing more nor leos than the reforast-ization reforast-ization of the Reserve the planting of trees, which it ia anticipated will in time take the place of thoHe taken from it during tb.e past years, and cover it again with forests. The work is in charge of Foreat Supervisor 0. L. Smith and assistant Erne3t Winkler, of Ephraim. It is under way at. the present time on a small scale but nest year it will gone at on a scale that will assure a good portion of the Seserve a new coating of timber. This year 85,000 trees are to ba planted, are now being planted, in fact, a force of twenty men are eugaged at the present time in Ephraim canyon planting the young trees, yearlings, that have been taken there for tlia purpose. They are near-1 near-1 all of the yellow pine variety, a few being of another kind. Next year all portions of the Reserve will be planted to the new forest if possible. Attempts made in the past to plant the seed of the new trees on the mountains, with the idea of avoiding the work and expense of transplanting, transplant-ing, have been failures, beaaus,e of the fact that birds, squirrels, etc., dug up the seeds before they were sprouted. Pyramid. |
