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result because the protective timber cover will be gone and the source 

 of the timber products that the type yields will be greatly reduced. 



The present value of those timbered lands that yet remain in the type 

 for forest purposes, from a protective standpoint, of course, is still 

 fairly high. I know an instance of the fruit on a farm, entirely sur- 

 rounded by pinon and juniper timber, not being frozen in June when 

 all of the fruit on the trees not so located was frozen. The post and 

 pole yield is now limited because the old stands have been heavily cut, 

 and there is no new crop growing up for future cutting. The stand is 

 rapidly assuming an open nature, made up of bushy-topper, many- 

 branched trees. These, of course, do not have much value except for 

 fuel. To compare the value of the land for forest or for dry farming 

 purposes, it is necessary to consider what the land, if properly handled, 

 is capable of from a forest standpoint. 



My system of handling the entire area embraced by the pinon-juniper 

 type would be : 



1. To make an intensive classification of it and to designate those 

 lands which can be irrigated with reasonable expense and which are 

 not too rough to be farmed, as agricultural and have them used for 

 that purpose. 



2. To consider all of the remaining lands as more valuable for 

 forest purposes and handle them accordingly. The method of han- 

 dling would be as follows : 



(a) Adopt a selection system of cutting at once, which will have 

 for its object taking from the stand the mature and overmature trees 

 and reserving the immature trees, but never removing enough to make 

 large openings. 



(b) Considering the type for the production of pole and post 

 material only from the juniper trees and ties and fuel from the pinon 

 trees. 



( c) Depending on natural reproduction for a continuation of the 

 stand. 



(d) Prohibiting all summer grazing. l)ut allowing spring and fall 

 grazing of cattle and horses, also sheep and goats, after ten years sub- 

 sequent to any cutting. 



(e) Prohibiting all grazing by sheep and goats for ten years after 

 each cutting. 



(/) Considering the rotation to be 80 years. 



(g) Establishing an effective system for protection against fire. 



