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Show the fact that the area surrounding the station is under proper management man-agement and thousands of trees and shrubs have been planted. In southern Arizona, SCS and cooperating ranchers have built many stock tanks for range improvement, im-provement, and have installed fenced areas upstream to serve as desilting plots to reduce silting and thus prolong the life of the reservoirs. re-servoirs. The increased vegetation in these plots and their nearness to water has provided haven for increasing numbers of ducks, shore birds, quail, doves and other small birds, Borell said. At Bisbee, Arizona, where an intensive in-tensive erosion-control program reduced re-duced flood damage to the town, an accompanying result has . been the great increase of wildlife' during dur-ing the past two or three years. White-tailed deer and many birds have returned to this area which was formerly badly depleted. Since SCS started its replanting program, more than 1,000,000 trees and shrubs have been planted in the southwest for erosion control and wildlife improvement. . These plants Include Russian olive, wild plum, sumac, wild grape, osage orange, mulberry, wild olive, and others. All of these provide protection pro-tection and food for wildlife as well as helping to hold valuable topsoil in place. The practice of fencing stream bottoms to keep stock from overgrazing over-grazing plants badly needed to stabilize the channel has also resulted re-sulted in homes for birds and animals. ani-mals. Pointing out other wildlife improvement im-provement instances in the southwest, south-west, Borell said that beaver, antelope, ante-lope, quail, pheasants, and wild turkeys have been planted in Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona Ari-zona by the state game departments. depart-ments. Many of these plants were made on ranches where revegtation programs are in effect. Transplanting of beaver has been given special emphasis, because be-cause beaver dams collect silt and debris and help stabilize water supply sup-ply and check floods. Whenever beaver damage irrigation ditches or fruit trees along lower streams, they are being live-trapped and moved to higher mountain areas where they can be useful to man in conservation work. Excessive erosion always means that wildlife is depleted. Lack of food and cover means that animals starve or are too easy prey for hunters, predators, or weather, the conservation official said. Ranchers and farmers all over the Southwest are joining in this campaign to increase vegetation and improve wildlife. Many agreements agree-ments signed by SCS cooperators contain a clause stating that "all native vegetation shall be protected protect-ed against fire, clearing and excessive ex-cessive graiing for the benefit of wildlife". Some ranchers and farmers far-mers are now protecting hawks and owls to assist in control of destructive de-structive rodents. "Hunters may be assured," Borell Bor-ell said, "that game wnll be most abundaMt on the lands of ranchers ranch-ers and farmers who are practicing good range and farm management." Soil Conservation Means More, Better Game Hunters who have so enthusiastically enthusias-tically pursued ducks, deer and other game these days may not realize it, but soil conservation work in this area has made wildlife wild-life more plentiful, according to A. E. Borell, regional biologist for the soil conservation service. Wildlife cannot increase without water, food, and protective cover and those are the very things provided in many places by ranchers ranch-ers and farmers who have organized organ-ized soil conservation districts or who are cooperating directly with SES in a battle to check erosion and revegetate southwestern ranges. rang-es. Now that grass and shrubs have improved or become reestablished on many thousands of acres of range land and the banks of streams and ponds have been planted with various kinds of shrubs and trees, game birds and animals have greatly increased, Borell said. Citing the improvement on the SCS research station grounds at Mexican Springs, north of Gallup, N. Mex., the wildlife official said that the state game department planted 22 pair of blue quail on that area several years ago. According Ac-cording to a recent report from Dr. D. S. Hubbell, director of the station, these quail have multiplied multi-plied rapidly and have now' spread miles north and "20:-miles south of the place where-Uiey-iwr planted, Borell said. This increase is due to |