Show 1 1 nI t S IS I lOnGI POLE PINE II r f rIS ISOW IS 0 OW TUL TREL THEL Medicine Bow Bov Boyo W yo yo and the cell erne Bow National Forest done derive their names mes from flom the fact that th-it in m early years the lIs from the i ing territory used to gather gathel in III that th VICInity to make their s bo from the mountain mahogany which grows in lIce abundance and vas as highly prized for forI J I bo wood Hue Hrc too the In Indians lans found pine pees of a certain species which had hod the h hibit of growing gi owing In thick stands straight str tall roll and tram When 0 overcrowded ded the trees were ere smal I 1 and the Indians found them dL de for the poles of then From FlOm this the tree gained gamed the name n of lodgepole pine No Now No the Io lodgepole pine is manly for the ties hes of the r railroads In Inthe inthe inthe the Western vestern States If it were to be beI I renamed on the basis of use it would ouM be called crosstie pine Many lany of these ties are cut in the Medicine fe Bow National Forest floated do down dorm n to the nearest rn tIl o d to town II and then shipped to Laramie for foi preset t A v treatment after iter which they the are used by b the railroads railroad s In the national forest forests logging is so soI so- so regulated I that the amount of t does not decrease from year er to year and the lodgepole pine areas will con can continue continue to supply timber perpetually The Medicine Bow now Forest would sup Slip ply 2 ties annually or half hilf again as mans man is s ate ale required for annual rc replacements placements on the Union Umon r f Pac fie fic Railway a aIn In Wyoming aloe Iono ilon there are arc five other national forests forests J with Ith areas from two 1 to three times as great as the Medicine Bow Bo Forest Foresti of mote mOle than a half million acres aCles |