| Show FOREST 8 GROWING IN intermountain REGION farming and forestry have a good many joints in common since both are concerned with growing crops of one kind or another the federal forest service which has under I 1 ite ts management over 27 million acres of land in the intermountain region vm t to 0 o manage its land in the game ame a way an up to date d ate farmer ta would manage hip there are special problems that confront the farm or that are too complex for him to solve alone which the agricultural experiment station undertakes to solve fm him in the same way the forest service requires experiment stations to solve soine of the more complex questions of forest manage mont the great basin experiment Exper imet it station in the mountains near ephraim utah serves the intermountain region the type of work done there Is rather different from that carried on at an agricultural experiment E rp erl station however partly because trees take a very long time to grow into a wood crop and partly because we know infinitely less about tree crops than the things that the farmers raise ralpe at the great basin experiment station the work is concentrated cent rated upon two problems which aro of extreme importance in central utah what to do with the oak brush areas that aro virtually unproductive today and hew how to manage the aspen stands iso aa as to grow more useful material a than ie Is being produced at present it appears ap peart that iho the problem of aspen mana management cement will be solved in the near future although the oak brush question is far from settled |
