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Show TIE PROBLEM OF FOREST GROWING Ifl THIS SECTION. Farming and forestry nave a good many points in common since both are concerned with growing crops of one kind or another. The federal Forest Service, which has under it's management over 27 million' acres of land in the Intermountain region, wants to manage its land in the same way an up-to-date farmer manages his. There are problems that com fort the farmer that are too complex for him to solve alone, which the Agricultural Experiment Stations undertake to solve for him. In the same way the Forest Service requires re-quires Experiment Stations to solve some of the more complex questions of forest management. The great Baison Experiment Station in the I'mountains near Ephraim, serves the Intermountain region. The type of work done there is rather diffreent from that carried out at an Agricultural Agri-cultural Experiment Station 'however, 'partly because trees take a very long time to grow in to a wood "crop," and partly because we know infinitely infinite-ly less about tree crops than the things that the farmer raises. At the Great Basin Experiment Station the work is concentrated upon two problems that are of extreme import ance in Central Utah, what to do with the oakbrush areas that are virtually unproductive today, and how to manage the aspen stands so as to grow more useful material than is being produced at present. It appears ap-pears that the problem of aspen management will' be solved in the near future, although the oakbrush question is far from settled. |