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is the intention of the Forest Service to improve these watersheds 

 as fast as possible by protection, restricted cutting and grazing, 

 and by planting. Nurseries have already been established to pro- 

 duce stock for planting on such watersheds in southern California, 

 in the Pike's Peak region of Colorado, and on the Salt Lake Re- 

 serve, near Salt Lake City, Utah. During the summer three new 

 city watershed projects have been reported upon favorably. One 

 is in the Pocatello Reserve in southern Idaho, where a small nursery 

 was established during the late summer. Another is in the Uinta 

 Forest Reserve in Utah, where large areas are in need of planting 

 for the benefit of the city water supply of Provo, Logan and 

 Ogden. The third is in the Pecos Forest Reserve in northern New 

 Mexico, the source of water supply of Las Vegas and Santa Fe. 

 It is the intention to establish a planting station about five miles 

 east of Santa Fe^ on the edge of the reserve, next spring. 



It is now the plan to enlarge forest reserves by taking in juniper 

 and pinion land, which was formerly left out, but the unmerchant- 

 able timber is useful to the Forest Service as a protective cover 

 and controls the grazing ground used as winter range by reserve 

 permittees. Unless included it will be used as summer range by 

 sheep owners who do not take out reserve permits, thus working 

 hardship on reserve permittees. The value of pinion and juniper 

 is increasing and causing indiscriminate cutting for use for ties, 

 posts and firewood. 



Condition on the Alaskan reserves make the ordinary form of 

 reserve administration useless. No horses are required, but boats 

 are necessary. No trail work is to be done or cabin sites selected 

 at present. The supervisor was recently authorized to purchase 

 a boat, which will be a traveling headquarters. 



A planting plan for the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. was 

 recently completed by A. S. Peck, of the Forest Service. The 

 object of forest planting is watershed protection and the produc- 

 tion of mine props. A year ago an investigation was made of 

 forest planting on coal lands in Western Pennsylvania and the 

 planting plan for this company extends the field of work to Eastern 



