Show I r RANGE AREAS AREAS' AREAS I MOUNT ON NATIONAL FORESTS f. f Newly grassed rangelands of the Intermountain National Forests Forests Fort For For- t ests now total acres reported reported re- re ported I. I M M. Varner Regional t. t Chief of Range and md Wildlife Management 1 Saturday Stressing that no s job can be successful without i. i f good up follow-up management Mr Varner said that Planting the i grass is only the first step Ink In Inmost k most cases the report said rt water hauling intensive herding herding herd- herd k r ing mg and fencing are necessary to get proper use of a maximum amount of the new grass once it is established t. t To demonstrate the high emphasis emphasis em em- placed by the Forest Service Service Ser- Ser r vice on the National Forest restoration program in the In Intermountain Intermountain Intermountain In- In Region the figures t show that over four-fifths four of ti all of the Forest Service reseed reseed- ing has been done here Mr Varner said i 1 The Intermountain Region int in- in t- t eludes the national forests of Utah Nevada southern Idaho h and md western Wyoming Reseed Reseed- ing projects of 1953 totaled acres on the 19 national forests of the region In addition to proven methods of by plowing or har bar harrowing harrowing rowing brush and planting the the grass seeds experimental work was continued in newer methods of range restoration On the National Forest Forc Forest For For- c t est a special study of spraying sagebrush and Wyethia with herbicides shows promising re re- re suits This method has been tried where there is a stand of native grass beneath the brush or weed patch Controlled burning is another L- L method employed to remove sagebrush and md open up the land to grass production Studies are being pressed to solve r l' e s see e e d i n 11 g problems in r areas not yet found adaptable to known p planting I 1 a ant n t i n g methods s Range Chief Varner said The over-all over objective is to put every possible acre of national national national na na- forest rangeland into r maximum forage production and k help solve the Regions Region's soil erosion erosion erosion ero ero- sion range forage and watershed water water- w water watershed ter- ter f shed problems I |