nXOX-JUXIPER LAND PROBLEM 5-13 



Granger remarked tliat when the subject was given out, it was 

 intended only to apply to the foothill type adjacent to the National 

 Forests and not large areas including pinon-juniper mesas far distant 

 from the boundaries. 



Stahl thought that the subject should have been confined to this 

 scope, stating that the policy now is to block our holdings rather than 

 to get larger areas of pinon-juniper far removed from the National 

 Forests. 



Hatton thought that where areas adjacent can be added and there is 

 no possibility of their use for agricultural purposes, he would advocate 

 their inclusion. 



To summarize the views of the members present at the discussion, 

 two questions were put up for vote: (1) Should the pinon-juniper 

 type as a whole, in areas large enough to administer properly, regard- 

 less of their distance from the present National Forests, be added to 

 the Forests? This proposal was voted down. (2) The second propo- 

 sition was : Should the pinon-juniper land that can be readily admin- 

 istered with existing forest units by extending the present boundaries 

 of the National Forests, be added? A favorable vote was secured on 

 this proposition. 



By Ress Philips 



Before we can even start a discussion on this subject, it seems to 

 me that we must define the term pinon-juniper lands. Jeffers is 

 evidently talking about a small strip of land along the west side of the 

 Uncompahgre. while Hoffman is thinking about the country between 

 the yellow pine and the sagebrush types. T can not agree with either. 

 The area is much larger than Jeffers admits, and as I see it. the 

 yellow pine and sagebrush meet and intermingle. There is no zone 

 between them. 



To me the term pinon-juniper lands means an immense area which 

 geographers have named The Great Sage Plain. It covers the south- 

 western part of Colorado and extends far into Utah and northern 

 Arizona. As I remember it, somewhere around 50 per cent of the 

 area is covered with sagebrush, the woodland type occurring only in 

 patches on the mesas, but occupying nearly all of the rougher land. 



The annual precipitation for the region is about 10 inches, and hot 

 dry summers and mild open winters are the rule. As brought out by 



