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Show American Forest ''Week Facts Given By Forest Ranger Wells Thursby Total acreage for Utah is, 52,597,790 acres. I Not over 5 per cent of the land in the State can ever be cultivated. 95 per cent of the land in the state is suitable mainly for forage, forests, watershed protection, wild life and recreation. 48 million acres in Utah are used for grazing. The live-stock industry is the third largest in the State. SUtah has more grazing permitees than any other state in the Union. It costs 4 to 8 times as much to feed an animal as it does to furnish grazing. I There are more than 25 million acres of unreserved public land in Utah suitable mainly for producing forage. The National Forests of Utah contain con-tain 5,450,000,000 board feet of saw timber. The United States now produces one half of the timber cut of the World. Utah's trees n order of commercal Importance are as follows: Engelman l Spruce, Western Yellow Pine, Lodge-1 Lodge-1 pole Pine, Douglas Fir, Aspen, Juniper, Juni-per, and Pinion. 133 cities and towns, 74 irrigation Projects, and 36 water power projects are supplied with, water from National Na-tional Forest watersheds in Utah. Plants, like people, must receive proper treatment if they maintain their health and vigor. Fires destroy watershed cover, wild life, forage and timber. A forest is the mother of water. Utah is the only state in the Union that has National Forest land in every ev-ery county. Your children will need timber. Properly managed forests never die. A country without forests is like a child without clothes. Ashes build no homes. .ji |