Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-28 | Page 7 | Treeless Areas to be Planted by Forest Service Men

I TREELESS AREAS TO BE PLANTED Bf FOIST ' SERVICE MESy In the intermountain region there are a great many treeless areas which are included -within the boundaries of national forests. In accordance with the policy of the forest service to put all lands under its jurisdiction to the highest use, the possibility of planting 'many of these areas with trees is under un-der investigation. Some situations as burned areas in the high mountains can unquestionably be forested artificially artifi-cially with success, but other areas such as oak and sage brush present much more of a problem. It is very difficult lo get planted trees started in such places which are hot and ry in midsummer, and furthermore, there i i? some question whether trees in such places will ever develop into large sawlogs within a reasonable length of : lime This whole problem has been I under intensive investigation at the I Great Basin experiment station near lEphraim, Utah, for a number of years, j Thousands of trees have been plant-led plant-led under different conditions in vari-j ous situations' and their behavior not-1 ed from year to year. In the oakbrush 1 the first year losses arc invariably ! heavy, but after three years the loss1 is reduced to a few' per cent. Almost! everywhere there is great damage to j planted trees by the snowshoe rabbits, year after year, but nevertheless, it seems probable thai one out of every, four trees planted ought to pull through, provided it was originally a j husky tree and was properly planted, ! early in the spring. j oo