552 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



nrid ranf>;es. More intensive investigations will include the effect of 

 overgra/inii upon stream flow, erosion, and forest reproduction, and 

 the possibilities of artificial reseeding and of growing seed for re- 

 generation of ranges. In connection with the grazing studies, an 

 experiment station has been established on the Manti National Forest, 

 known as the Utah Experiment Station, where special stress will be 

 laid on investigations relating to the effect of grass cover and grazing 

 upon floods, erosion, and purity of water supj)ly. 



Cooperation with the States in fire protection under the Weeks law 

 will be continued, and the benefits of the act extended to as many 

 ncAv States as possible. A meeting of State officials will be held in 

 order to arrive at the best policy and method of protection. Inspec- 

 tion will be made by the Forest Service to insure that the money 

 appropriated among the various States is being properly expended. 

 To continue the cooperative work be3'ond the close of the calendar 

 year 1912 an additional appropriation under the same terms as the 

 first one will be needed. 



WORK FOR THE YEAR 1914. 



Broadly speaking, the work of the Forest Service in 1914 will 

 deal with the same general problems that have confronted it in recent 

 years. As progress is made along the different lines of work new 

 fields for study and investigation present themselves. The devel- 

 opment of methods suitable to one region perhaps calls for the de- 

 velopment of other and wholly different methods for another one. 

 With the steadily increasing use of the national forests new prob- 

 lems, which must be met and solved, constantly arise in connection 

 with their management.' 



One important extension of work in 1914 will be in connection 

 with the new national forests in the East. By the beginning of 

 the fiscal year title to some 500,000 acres of land in the Appalachian 

 and White Mountains probably will have passed to the Government, 

 and this area and additional areas acquired during the year will be' 

 put under administration. Since these forests are in the center of a 

 region of large population their use should be intensive from the 

 first. To handle the investigative problems in connection with 

 management of the eastern forests, experiment stations will, if funds 

 are available, be established to conduct studies in the different forest 

 types. Adequate means of fire protection suitable to the region will 

 be developed and preliminary work done in the reforestation of de- 

 nuded lands. 



The work of classifjnng national forest lands, as provided for in 

 the act of August 10, 1912, will be continued through the year, and 

 every effort will be made to bring the work as far toward completion 

 as possible. 



During the year results of the policy of making large timber sales 

 should become manifest in a greatly increased cutting of national 

 forest timber. Reforestation to about the same extent as in the 

 previous two years will be continued, but, guided by past investiga- 

 tions and results, with improved methods and, it is hoped, at lower 

 cost. Working plans for some of the forests whose resources are 

 intensively used will be brought to completion and substantial prog- 

 ress made toward the completion of preliminary plans for all for- 



