FOREST SERVICE. 



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Numher of timber sales, classified accordinf/ to amount of sale, fiscal year 



ended June 30, 1920. 



I Includes one cost sale. 



Keforestation. — The details of planting and sowing operations are 

 he following table : 



Planting and soicing on National Forests, iy States, 1920. 



given in the following table 



Slate. 



Area 

 planted. 



Acres. 



Washington 1,415.00 



Idaho 1,288.00 



Montana 775.00 



Minnesota 769.1)0 



Colorado 7t0.79 



Ncljraska 505.95 



Michigan 420.50 



Oregon 412.00 



Wyoming , 



Area 

 sowed. 



Acres. 



2.33 



312.00 



Total. 



.4 cres. 

 1,415.00 

 1,288.00 

 775. 00 

 769.00 

 763. 12 

 505. 95 

 420. 50 

 412.00 

 312.00 



State. 



California 



Utah , 



New Mexico. 



Ala! ama 



Virginia 



.\ri/-ona 



Florida 



Total . 



Total. 



Acres. 



235.00 



95.00 



30.00 



10.00 



9.40 



3.00 



.20 



7,043.17 



With the decreased appropriations available for planting on the 

 National Forests and the increased cost of labor, planting operations 

 have been concentrated more and more in those regions where the 

 work could be done most successfully and most cheaply. During 

 the year the nurseries which have been maintained in New Mexico, 

 Utah, and California were closed, and planting was discontinued 

 in those States with the si)ring of 1920. The work has been con- 

 tinued on a somewliat reduced scale in the Pacific Northwest, in 

 northern Idaho and western Montana, in Colorado, and in Ne- 

 l)raska. Further reductions in those regions are inevitable unless 

 tlic appropriation is restored to at least its prewar total, since the 

 stock in the nurseries started from seed when labor was not so 



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