Show Christmas Trees Our Forests Have Them Wasatch Forest Has a Fe Few v Young Trees to Spare Uintah and Ashley Have Hav Ample As usual this time of the year many requests are made upon the Forest Service for permits to c cut t the young fir and spruce trees from the local watersheds of the Wasatch National Forest for Christmas tree purposes The policy of the Forest Service is to allow the cutting of young trees only where their removal will result in desirable thinning to improve conditions of or growth for the remaining trees of a stand and where their removal will not notre re result in the impairment of a wa wa- Otherwise it is he held d that the cutting of the young trees would result in an unjustifiable waste The fir ir and spruce timber of the Wasatch mountains was SQ so fully I cut over in the early settlement of the country and later damaged by fire and reduced from the primitive primitive primitive prim prim- condition to such an extent that the objects of forest management management management manage manage- ment have been very much one of rn Finn T Tf i. i U r pV v supply the general demand here herewith hereWith with Christmas trees from these mountains since this class of cutting cutting cutting cut cut- ting alone would soon strip the watersheds of their forest cover Other than the the removal of or a few trees for public purposes not other other other oth oth- er permits are issued by the Forest Forest Forest For For- est Service for ChrI Christmas trees from the local watershed In the Uintah Mountain area of the Wasatch Forest however there are dense stands of young lodgepole pine where carefully made improve conditions of growth and where the Forest service would desire to direct the cuttings but this I species of tree is undesirable as a Christmas tree because of its scraggily ly branches and Is not in demand The fir and spruce trees in the Uintah mountains grow at higher elevations than the pines and those that are available from thinnIng thinning thinning thin thin- ning must be secured before the middle of November or they soon be become ome Inaccessible on account of snow Note The Note The above furnished by the forest bureau is good reading It tells a true story But Uin- Uin L L u we um au are to 10 advising aa- aa our friends that on the Uin- Uin highest range are ample Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas trees for all Utah's demands and which should be be put on the market |