PINON-JUMPER LAND PROBLEM 537 



Were these land within the National Forest, management should at 

 once refuse the cutting of green timher under free use. and plan the 

 rotation with the future use of the species in mind and not only 

 fence posts. It is my conviction that the pinon and juniper have other 

 uses which will be developed later. 



All timbered lands should be conserved under government control. 

 When all other tillable lands have been demonstrated as insufficient 

 for the maintenance of the proper balance between the practice of 

 agriculture and forestry, then will there be ample time to classify the 

 lands intensively on the basis of the best judgment as to practicable 

 agricultural lands. In that statement I am not at variance with the 

 land classification policy, rather I am anxious that the timbered lands, 

 if they have any merchantable product of value in the locality, shall 

 be conserved for their timber values and timber potentiality. 



All of the uses to which these lands are put are identical with 

 those of adjacent lands within the National Forest. Similar lands 

 within the Forest are not handled dififerently from other lands. If 

 the resources are evident and present, if the development and pros- 

 perity of the locality are dependent upon the perpetuation of these 

 resources, and if these resources are not being properly handled under 

 the present plan and are often being wasted, then it is high time that 

 Federal jurisdiction be given an opportunity. 



The pinon-juniper lands should be included within the National 

 Forest. 



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PLAN FOR HAXDLIXG THE PIXON-JUXIPER TYPE. 



By a. F. Hoffman 



Supervisor. Montezuma National Forest 



For several years I have been intimately associated with the pinon- 

 juniper lands of southwestern Colorado and have also been over many 

 such lands in the eastern and southeastern part of the State of Utah. 



They make up a distinct forest tvpe and extend up to the yellow 

 pine type, which, in this region, constitutes their upper limits, and 

 down to the sagebrush lands. Within the type there are frequent 

 sagebrush parks in the broad-bottomed canons and scattered through 

 the timber. 



