NATIONAL FOREST WORK 



Progress in Planting 



While practically nothing is to be done 

 this fall toward reforesting the areas burned 

 over by the recent fires in District i, old 

 burns in this district will be reforested as 

 rapidly as possible. The work will be handi- 

 capped by a shortage of seed of the species 

 which it is desired to plant, namely, Coast 

 Douglas fir, Idaho white pine, and Western 

 yellow pine suitable for the conditions on 

 the western part of the district. Western 

 yellow pine from the Black Hills to the 

 amount of 10,000 pounds will be procured 

 for seed-spot and broadcast sowing in the 

 eastern part of the district, at a cost of 

 $10,000. 



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Fence Posts for a Single State 



The Forest Service estimates that the 

 farmers of the single State of Iowa use 

 every year $1,400,000 worth of new fence 

 posts, which cost the equivalent of $600,000 

 for setting them in the ground. 



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Changes of Boundary 



By presidential proclamations, the follow- 

 ing changes have recently been made in the 

 areas of national forests, in accordance with 

 the plan inaugurated more than a year ago 

 and finally agreed upon by the Secretaries of 

 Agriculture and the Interior, looking to the 

 correction of the forest boundaries. 



Approximately 18,330 acres were added to 

 the Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, and at 

 the same time 10,880 acres were eliminated. 

 The area added contains some timber, but the 

 addition was made mainly to secure a better 

 administrative boundary. The petition re- 

 questing that this land be added was signed 

 by practically all the local settlers concerned. 



tion of 5,219 acres ; and the Mt. Taylor Divi- 

 sion of the Manzano National Forest, con- 

 sisting of 215,601 acres, was transferred to 

 the Zuiii. 



The additions comprise commercial forest 

 areas and woodland areas adjacent to the 

 several divisions of the forest, and include 

 a total stand of approximately 780,000 cords 

 of juniper, pine, and hardwood, in addition 

 to some 90,000,000 board feet of commercial 

 yellow pine timber. 



From the Hayden National Forest, Wyom- 

 ing, elimination was made of 6,075 acres, 

 located along the northern and eastern por- 

 tions and embracing a number of small 

 tracts which contain no timber and are 

 chiefly valuable for grazing. 



The areas and boundaries of the Nebo 

 and Wasatch National Forests of Utah were 

 considerably modified. The N^bo, which 

 comprises several separate tracts, loses by 

 elimination approximately 15,122 acres, and 

 by transfer to the Wasatch the tract known 

 as the Vernon Division. The lands elimi- 

 nated are either in the main already alien- 

 ated or are adapted to grazing and dry 

 farming. 



The Wasatch Forest loses by elimination 

 approximately 1,440 acres; it gains approx- 

 imately 8,713 acres formerly not a part of 

 any forest and approximately 54,240 acres 

 bv transfer from the Nebo Forest. 



The Zufii National Forest, Arizona and 

 New Mexico, was changed in boundary by 

 the addition of 126,001 acres and the elimina- 



More than half a million acres have been 

 eliminated from five national forests in Colo- 

 rado. The forests affected and the areas 

 eliminated from each are as follows : Lead- 

 ville, 42,340 acres; Pike, 51,024; Montezuma, 

 348,681; San Juan, 18,810; and Rio Grande, 

 64,849. The area of the Montezuma Na- 

 tional Forest has been further decreased by 

 the transfer of 18,550 acres, comprising the 

 La Plata watershed, from it to the San 

 Juan. This leaves the aggregate area of the 

 San Juan about the same as it was before 

 the eliminations were made, and reduces the 

 Montezuma bv 367,231 acres altogether. 



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