Show i TREE PUNTING PLANTING STATION CLOSE CLOS Uncle Sam Doing Important Work at the Head of Big Cottonwood Canyon SEEDLINGS BEING RAISED INTENDED FOR PLANTING ON IM IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT WATERSHEDS Special to lie Tho Herald I Washington Scot 15 iii At the head of I Big Cottonwood canyon in tho the mountains not far from Salt SaIt Lake City 1 Sam has one of the most important important tant of the nine planting stations which have been established in the national for forests forests forests ests throughout the country Of or all the planting stations that are maintained by the forest service this on one perhaps Is the most ideal and it promises t become one of the best producers It is estimated that under the present capacity seedlings can be grown annually and if it becomes necessary the nursery can be Increased to two or three times its present size siz Tho The planting operations are In charge of or N J Fetherolf planting as assistant assistant assistant working direction of E EH Et t H LL Clarke Clark supervisor of ot the Salt Lake and Wasatch national forests foreste Production of Seedlings This station is Intended for the tion of forest tree seedlings for planting on important watersheds In the Wasatch mountains This nursery has acre in seed beds and a ed area Is available for use in transplanting the tho II seedlings after they have grown in the seedbeds one or two years I Forest planting is becoming more and more important each year ear and the public generally generall realizes that if it the supply of commercial timber is to be maintained a great deal of planting must be done in inthe Inthe inthe the future The government has encouraged encouraged encouraged aged private land owners throughout the middle west to plant trees upon their 1 homesteads and within the last five or six years advice in forest planting has b been en given to thousands of farmers in the middle west I There are now over acres in national forests and within these are included in included Included vast areas of land that require for forest forest est eat planting because seed trees are wholly lacking Among the various policies con connected connected connected with the management of the na forests that of forest planting is Iset yet et in its infancy but within a comparatively short time It will assume greater t Importance In the general management of 01 off f the national forests Process Is Slow It requires requirE from two to four years Jears to torl rl produce stock sufficiently large for plant ing and therefore the process of reforest reforestation reforestation tion at th tha beginning must lie foe slow Any planting that IF is II done in the vicinity of this station will serve two purposes First Improvement of the watershed cover coer of an important drainage basin from which Salt Lake City CIt is supplied and nd at the same Fame time the production of ol commercial timber on land that formerly bore an excellent stand but which has been devastated by careless lumbering and aud forest fires It will be one or two years before any I tock stock is available for planting but then there should be at least trees ready read c to tl set out or the mountain side There is no question about the tho success of field fielt planting since the region is potentially a forested area There is abundant for experimental work In testing new species and this spring seeds of i a large number of trees that are not com corn common common cornmon mon to the Wasatch Wasat h mountains have b been en i sown BOwn at the nursery to determine their adaptability to that region Seed of Japanese larch which is very similar to the European larch has been sown at this station and while It is not notA A certain Just what the results will be bee yet it is believed that this may prove to be bea a valuable tree for planting certain sites It 11 is estimated that thore are over within range of this station which are In ve very vey y urgent need of reforestation In years the barren slopes slope will be green again with trees and the planted forest will be Improving the wa water water ter flow which is of such great worth wort to Salt Lake City |