Show yellow pines to be planted as a test in harmony with the spirit and which iq is april 22 to inclusive to be made on ranger coxs purposes of 0 american forest week an n experimental planting 0 of trees is in the dixie forest reserve one thousand western yellow pine transplants from the monument nursery in district no 2 monument colorado are to be taken to the vicinity of panguitch lake and there planted as an experiment tn in defor esting that section the idea 0 of this experiment seems to have originated with ranger cox lat at least that Is the impression we glean from copies of 0 com mun lea eions between supervisor olsen assistant district forester C B morse of ogden and nursery but the supervisor and the district forester were both in sympathy with the plan and supervisor olsen la Is going i with berger cox to se to the planting I 1 of them ranger cox states that there are more favorable places in in the district for such an experiment but that there is no spot where reforesting refo resting Is more desirable in writing to supervisor olsen about the experiment the assistant district forester says in part the stock will be delivered to you sometime between april and may 1 in this planting work there should bo be no attempt at speed every tree should be planted very carefully in the place where there la Is the moat opportunity tor for its success while we want to hold the plantation with in a reasonable area thero should be no hesitancy about varying the spacing to mt meet the conditions on the ground what we are after is success in this experimental planting at least of the trees should be staked with road stakes or some thing similar tor for future counts fla aa to the survival we are attempting to ar arrange a cooperative aggree ment with district noa to furnish us with planting stock from seed furnished by this district aln this connection we would be glad to have you collect 10 or 20 pounds of yellow pine seed this tall fall it if you find it possible the young trees tor for this experiment are costing only about per thousand at the nursery and ready tor for shipment PT |