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Show TREELESS TRACTS IN RESERVES MAY BEAR-TIFICALLY BEAR-TIFICALLY REFORESTED Ogden, Jan. 28, 1920 In tho inter-1 mountain region there nro n great many treeless nreas which arc included includ-ed within the boundaries of the National Na-tional Forests. In accordance, with tho policy of the Forest Service to put nil lands under Its jurisdiction to tho highest use, tho possibility of planting many of theso areas with trees is under investigation. Somo situations as burned nrens In thu high mountains can unquestionably bo reforested artificially with success, suc-cess, but other nrens such ns onk and sngo brush present much moro of a problem It is very difficult to get plnntcd trees started in such situations where It is hot nnd dry in midsummer, nnd furthermore, there is somo question whether trees in such places will over develop into Inrge sawloga within fii reasonable length of time. The whole problem has been under intensive Investigation Investiga-tion nt the Grcnt Basin Experiment ( Station near Ephraim, Utah for a I number of years. j Thousands of trees havo been i planted under different conditions in various situations nnd their bo- I havior noted from year to year. In 1 ookbru8h, the first year losses arc invnriably heavy, but after three years the loss is reduced to a few per cent. Almost everywhere there I is grent dnmnge to planted trees by tho snowshoe rabbits, year after 'year, but nevertheless it seems prob- 1 nblc that ono out of every four trees plnntcd ought to pull through, pro- j vided it was originally husky nnd i wns properly planted, enrly in the spring. i 4 Merchant John P. Fuller is back , from his Eastern trading trip. |