Show Forest For st Planting Problems In the Intermountain region there I are arc a great many treeless ar areas 8 j which are are included within the boundaries of the national forests t tIn In accordance with the policy of f the i forest service to put all lands land under under ender Its It's jurisdiction to the bi highest use usei the possibility of planting many of ese ese areas with trees is under to-I to ns' ns n- n I I s' s gyn n. n Some ii t as I Ion on n n the high mountains I i bly be reforested refo art ari ar- ar I ar-I t j i success but bul other I II nO I and sage saye brush n tJ i e of at a problem It Iti i j get plan planted eri trees I D l Dices ices which b are hot I l further further- ae Ie question I i laces daces will ever def der de- de f r within a reasonable length of time This whole problem has been under intensive intensive intensive sive investigation at the Greaf orp Basin experiment station near Ephraim for lor a number of years Thousands of trees have havo b been en planted planted under different conditions condition in various arious situations and their behavior noted from year to year In It the oak brush the he first year los losses e are invariably heavy but but- aft after l tree years ears the loss is reduced to a few percent Almost everywhere there is great damage to plant planted d i roes gees r es l by bythe bythe y the snowshoe rabbits l ar after year but nevertheless it seems p Jh able that one out of every four trees planted ought ought- to pull through provided provided provided pro pro- vided it was originally a husky tree and was properly planted par ear ear in inthe inthe inthe the spring |