| Show Ashley National Forest Completes Bug Control The 1959 control program for spruce bark beetle on the Ashley National Forest lias been according to Donis Owen is serving as forester in charge of the This has been the second summer of a planned project to control an infestation of spruce bark beetles discovered in which threatens extensive areas of valuable timber In the Infested trees are located on the headwaters of the Duchesne River in the South Fork of Rock and in the Grand-daddy Lakes Work was carried out from two one at Ranger Station and the second at Cold About fifty men worked from each Individual trees were sprayed insecticide using hand operated The crews treated over infested trees on acres of national forest More than dollars were paid in wages to nearly men from Carbon and Wasatch The spruce has been greatly reduced by the last two seasons It is planned that teh infestation will be fully under control by the fall of The smaller than a lady has destroyed thousands of trees in the Ashley National The beetles bore tunnels between the bark and the wood of the laid in the hatch into tiny worm-like which feed on the growing tissue of the When the tunnels griddle the the tree Thousands of beetles often attack a single The Intermountain Region of the Forest Service has several major infestations of bark About million dollars will be needed to held them in check during the next About of the money will be spent on the Wasatch and Uinta National Forests on spruce beetle In explaining the need for expenditure of money for this It has been pointed out that more than 30 million feet of timber has been killed to There is an immediate danger to million feet of valued at 7 million Should the insect attack go on a possible 2 billion board feet might be Surveys have shown that insects and many more trees each year than forest The annual insect loss in the United States in saw-timber alone is board feet per enough A build a million J From an economic standi control measures are well Foresters who have studies the loss from insects and disease are appalled at the But many other values in addition to are at A growing forest provides habitat for forage outdoor and most important of all ter for farms and inS In a state such as which has a limited supply of a healthy forest watershed is an absolute A very high percentage of all the water used in the State of Utah has its start on high mountain A great deal of Utah water comes from the High Insect and fire good range land and good timber land management go hand in hand to protect d resources of our national for- I |
