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Show REFORESTATION: Active measures to preserve dwindling forest resources are now being undertaken by several states, according to the Council of State Governments. Ohio is reported creating two new state forests, designed to furnish recreation sites as well as help solve serious erosion problems. Connecticut forest preservation efforts are co-ordinated in a statewide state-wide system providing supervision of private as well as public timber. Importance of such problems to the region's economy is indicated by the fact that 75 per cent of all New England is forest land. In Idaho, reclamation of desert areas is being accomplished by extensive ex-tensive reseeding. Some 20 000 acres of burned-over grazing land have been reseeded already, much of it now providing better pasturage than before grass fires ravaged it two and three years ago. A 16 000-acre 000-acre tract seeded from airplanes last year is already showing a good stand of grass. |