Show Foresters S Say y Salt Lakers Lake Do Not Take Advantage of Their Canyon Opportunities Opportunities' Salt Lake has not yet seen the I pleasures of Its Us neighboring canyons and forest reserves in the same light as Los Angeles The possibilities possibilities possibilities pos pos- of the national forests formed the basis of discussion at today's session session session ses ses- sion of the United States district foresters foresters foresters for for- esters i In the federal building It was shown at the meeting many summer homes are arc maintained by the California California Califor Califor- nia people on the Angeles forest Forest Forest Forest For For- est officials look for she he same movement movement movement move move- ment in Salt Lake with an Increasing I population Coert DuBois DuBols district forester at I San Francisco said that In southern I California the Inter Interest st in the forest has so EO intensified that mountain I climbing and summer camping have become a vogue vogue the the common habit I Even school children and clerks in the stores obtain a site and build s sOme me kind of a camp even though they can I spend at It it only week ends and holi holl days There are over permits for summer residences In the Angeles forest forest for for- est cat and the demand Is so great that thatto thatto thatto to be prepared to provide additional sites the coming summer three crews are now at work surveying areas that promise attractive camp camp- campsites sites and plats will be made that the sites may be provided In a way that the greatest number may be accommodated with the great greatest st convenience and without delay or uncertainty as to location A project in the furtherance of which the forest service has taken a keen interest is a municipal playground maintained on a favorable camp site in the forest by the city of or San Ber Ber- nardino Thi ThiS will be of great benefit In aiding those hose who are not accustomed accustomed accustomed tomed to the mountains the mountains the very ones unes the national forests should provide I with wilh places of rest and recuperation recuperation- until they become used to recuperation recuperation-I the absence of some conveniences upon which th they y have learned to depend in their city homes Boy Scouts clubs also not only use se the Angeles forest for their pleasure but also hold themselves ready to be of use In any fire emel emer gency In short the public sentiment is so so strongly behind the protect protection on of the forests and their absolute protection protection tion from fire that the most careful measures measurE's concerning the use of fire ar are fully indorsed and re respected Material evidence of an appreciation of If th the benefits of the forest and J of d brush cover on the water supply Is h shown by all the people of southern California in the close oper co-oper operation co-operation given The county of Los Angeles ap appropriates appropriates ap- ap from to yearly yearly year year- i ly and this is augmented bY funds raised by fruit growers' growers associations water companies and a great many Individuals in individuals individuals in- in t tg about which 1 Is spent annually in it the employ of patrolmen patrolmen patrolmen pa pa- and in the he building of trails and firebreaks Without this strong support fire prevention In the Angeles would be difficult indeed for every condition of dense brush and a protracted protracted protracted pro pro- season of intense drought tend to contribute to the inflammability of the forest coyer Conservation of water is her one of the greatest problems and asso associations and Individuals are ver very r active in tree planting to improve the conditions for lor natural storage of water Another ln lint t I of work is the spreading of the water walrat at the mouths of the canyons at times when it is not needed for irrigation and when also there is not danger from floods so that it will flow oVer the alluvial deposits as a means of thoroughly saturating them as a m means ans ansof of storing wat water that would oth otherwise flow directly t sea By experience the water thus held back is found to tobe tobe tobe be available In affording additional during the irrigating sC season As ix il in the Sanpete valley also als 7 tim tho problem of erosion gives concern in the Angeles In 1911 an unfortunate tir fire firo I practically cleaned one sm small ll watershed watershed water water- shed of its forest cover The next winter winter win win- ter the soil soli came down in blocks leavIng leaving leaving leav leav- ing in places only the bare bar hills Tho The people are starting on an ambit ambitious ous program to offset the silting of the canals and ditches with the silt from the eroded hillsides by the construction of dams in the course of the flood waters waters waters wa wa- which will permit the water to flow through but restrain the matter It carries in suspension This will materially materially materially ma ma- supplement the influence of ot the brush in the control of flood water wate jt which at times In that region are are so ISO destructive |