Deseret Evening News | 1906-01-27 | Page 1 | Lasal Forest Reserve Created

0 lASAl f REST RESE E TED Contains Tract of Acres Between Grand and Dol Dolores Dolores ores Rivers PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHMENT To Care for Timber end Preserve COY Cov Cover er rr for far Snow on Watershed Special to the News Washington D C COo Jan Jail 27 A forest foro t reserve has bias been established on the tho eastern boundary of Utah under the name of or reserve containing n a tract of ot 1462 lying between tho the and Ind Dolores rivers and amid extend extending lug ing In A I few unites miles over the tIme line Into Colorado The embraces the Lasal range who whose peaks rIM to n a height of ot from Crom to feet fees and part of the long eastern slopes from Crom those mountains It IL has hns lt en established established established for tor the double purpose of ot car caring ing int for tor the timber on these dopes In Inthe Inthe inthe the Interest of ot the public and In 1 Insuring protection to the mountain region Which represents un tin area nral of unusually I great precipitation hIlo tIme the forests of theno the e mountains will be ot of considerable value In time the future In working corking the con cn contained In them th thi purpose served by b this cover coer In retaining the tha snow Ino and preventing a rapid run oft off Is of ot far Car Carr greater r value both bolh for tor the present and future The precipitation pr I and time the fueL fact that acres lire l lare an lar of covering nil tend to I dang rou floods for tor the lower lands alternating with periods of oC scan scanty scanty ty V Irrigation water waler wherever forest cover Is seriously damaged or de do destroyed Already the time stream flow In tn this region has line greatly diminished within the last Inet 15 16 years owing to ex cx excessive grazing and to 10 numerous small fires while almost all agricultural land In the valleys alles leading heading from Crom the time moun tame Is 18 more atone or leu less endangered at times time by b flood water All 11 conditions cull call for tor protection to 10 o cover cOer on out these the c mountains to Insure e the continued 1 prosperity of or nun others In Iri that region