Show FOREST NOTES 1 observations at the utah experiment peri ment station show that aspen sprouts from good stumps I 1 attain a maximum height growth during trummer mummer season of over one half inch per day nine hundred coyote pelts were submitted to the lincoln county wyoming wool grow ers association at its recent cent meeting for the bounty of la a piece off offered ered by the assoria t tion I 1 on sand grass white sage button or apple sage and salt sage or shad scale are the principal forage plants of nevada desert winter ranges the past winter has been very favorable for desert ranging there having been adequate but riot not too much snow in idaho the growing practice for ten years is to feed the sheep hay principally alfalfa for 90 days this costs upwards of half a dollar a head the forest service has just completed an estimate of the timber of the teton forest ad 1 joining the yellowstone park on the south and finds that it conj bains sufficient spruce fir and pine timber suitable for wood pulp to supply a mill of ton ia a day capacity power for such a mill can be supplied by pine or rainey creek tributaries tributa ries of ahe fhe snake river and the snake I 1 riv river er will transport the bolts of wood from forest to mill sufficient ties were cut from the wasatch forest from july to january to amount at 8 cents a piece stumpage to more than is required to administer the entire forest for twelve months examination last summer of challis forests is resulting in more complete utilization A stockman of mountain home has been granted permit for sheep on the salmon and other stockmen stoc kmen will be shown over at present unused ranges as soon as snow conditions permit the emmett payette national forest wool growers association at its recent annual meeting decided to use the rotation or deferred of grazing the coming season in in handling their bands of sheep on the payette forest ranges this means that the forage on a different portion of each allotment will be allowed to mature and disseminate its seed each year before being grazed thus assuring re seeding of the entire area at least during every three to five years |