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Show POLES FOR FENCE AND CORRALS AVAILABLE FROM lS. FOREST SERVICE Approximately 750 acres of overstocked (thick growing) ponderosa pine trees of pole and sapling size has been thinned on areas surrounding Cooper Peak on the Panguitch Lake Ranger District. An additional 400 acres should be completed during the coming year. Some of the trees being thinned from the stand are large enough that they can be trimmed and used for poles. Anyone needing poles for personal fence or corral work can obtain a Free-Use Permit for thinning slash poles from the office of the Panguitch Lake Forest Ranger. The thick crowded trees on unthinned areas are growing very slowly. The growth being made is on numerous trees many of which will never grow to commercial size to be utilized in the sawmill. These crowded trees are thinned by cutting down the smallest, most damaged trees, leaving approximately 300 trees on each acre of forest ground. The trees left are the best, most thrifty trees in the stand, Following this thinning opera-Ion they will be able to grow rapidly. All the ability of the soil to grow trees will be concentrated on these fewer stems all of which will be able to grow to a size that can be utilized commercially. |