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Show GOO Acres Land Reseeded In Lake Canyon Area Some 600 acres of grazing land was reseeded this fall in Lake Canyon area of the Duchesne District of the Ashley National Forest. Merlin I. Bishop, district ranger, describes the Lake Canyon Can-yon reseeded area as a tributary of the Strawberry River, located about 25 miles south and west of Duchesne, at a 7,500-foot altitude. This seeding project was carried out during the latter part of September Sep-tember and in October as weather weath-er condition permitted. Spots of land reseeded are in the bottom on both forks of Lake Canyon and in Bear Gulch. Types of grasses seeded in the Lake Canyon project includes a mixture of crested wheat, pubescent pube-scent wheat, intermediate wheat, and brome grass. The reseeded area was plowed with a Towner disc plow, seeded with a tractor-drawn drill. This area, with its good soil, is an excellent source of grazing, Ranger Bishop pointed out: Success Suc-cess of the project will influence and encourage local people to do reseeding on their own land for summer grazing in this area. All permittees with grazing allotments al-lotments in the Lake Canyon area, ar-ea, have agreed to hold cattle from total grazing for three years in order to determine the success of the reseeding project. Then stocking will be based on grazing capacity of the reseeded land. The allotment involved here is with six permittees, 220 head of cattle. The reseeded land within the forest boundary is six or seven , miles above the upper lake in Lake Canyon. |
