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Show stock grown there will be used for this purpose. On account of the economy, econ-omy, in production the capacity of the. I station has been greatly Increased and has become a distributing center . for other forests la the district. Tho ' first trees jrrown axe roady for field planting this spring. Tho present an-, an-, nual capacity of tho nursery is 4,000,-I 4,000,-I 000 plant. In the spring of 1907 a planting sfation was established on, the Pocatello National forest for th purpose of reforesting tho slopes ot tho streams which supply the city ol Pocatello. The first trees grown then will bo ready for field planting next year. The present annual capacity of this nursery is 1,000,000 plants. Besides Be-sides the planting of trees, experiments experi-ments aro being conducted on a number num-ber of forests to determine the poeai-blllty poeai-blllty of reforesting by direct seeding. In case these experiments prove successful suc-cessful they will hold out the hope of accomplishing results more nearly commenisurato with tho needs. PLANTING OF NEW i FORESTS AID TO NATURE IN RESTORING MOUNTAIN FORESTS. Two Government Nurseries, Near Salt Lake and at Pocatello Are Growing Young Trees. Through lumbering and repeated fires a large acreage of forest land In district 4 has been denuded of tree growth and If left as It Is, It will take I hundreds of years before it will return re-turn to Its former , forested state. I Those forests which contain the largest larg-est supply of merchantable timber at present are almost without exception remote from settlement, and transportation transpor-tation facilities arc poor or wanting, while the more accessible ones In tho center of the district, especially those lying in the Wasatch mountains, contain' con-tain' comparatively little timber. Tho necessity of taking steps to plant up the more Important watersheds has been realized for several' years past In the summer of 1905, careful studies i were made which resulted In definite action along the lines of forest planting. plant-ing. At that time a nursery was started start-ed In Big Cottonwood canyon on the Wasatch National forest, 20 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. The object ob-ject of this nursery at that time was to grow stock mainly for reforesting the watersheds which supply tho city of Salt Lake. The larger part of the |
