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Show Dixie Forest Reseeding ! Program Being Carried Through Artificial reseeding of 600 acres of range land on the west division of the Dixie National Forest began be-gan recently, announced Albert Albertson, forest supervisor at Cedar City. Additional areas on the Dixie division will share the benefit of artificial revegetation that is being be-ing continued on a large scale by the Forest Service to maintain, restore and improve mountain range lands so as to make the greatest wartime contribution possible pos-sible to the need for feed. This will bring to 3,500 acres the range land on the Dixie Forest that has been artificially reseeded in recent years, the supervisor said. Effective work on rough lands requires the use of heavy equipment. equip-ment. Soil prepartion this year which is upon densely-covered sagebrush land is being done with a tractor-drawn heavy disc plow. The grasses to be planted are crested wheat, smooth brome and bulbous bluegrass. Crested wheat is a hardy, long-lived, deep-rooted bunch grass that has been successfully suc-cessfully established on nearby previous pre-vious plantations. Smooth brome is an aggressive perennial which forms a dense sod. It has proved to be the most generally successfully success-fully species for reseeding mountain moun-tain range lands. Bulbous blue-grass blue-grass and smooth brome are highly high-ly palatable grasses that grow early in the spring and furnish forage throughout the season. The grasses are being seeded in mixture. mix-ture. Adequate forage looms large as a most important factor in the need for increased production of meat, wool and hides. It is aimed that the supply of forage from ranges of the Dixie Forest will be maintained, and that wherever wher-ever possible increased acreage of range land will be brought into production. - Artificial reseeding can increase production of forage on many hundreds of acres of range lands in southern Utah. Careful planting by proper, yet inexpensive methods will produce good stands of grass on many valley and foothill lands now covered with annual weeds, cheat-grass cheat-grass and sagebrush, and on mountain lands in the oakbrush, aspen and subalpine zones, the supervisor said. |