FORESTRY QUARTERLY 



Vol, VII] June, 1909. [No. 2. 



LIBRARY 



NEW YORK 



FOREST PLANTING IN NATIONAL FORESTS. 



(iAkt>eN. 



1. Forestation in the Inter-Mountain Region. 



James M. Fetherolf. 



The region to which this article applies may be broadly defined 

 as lying between Yellowstone Park and the Salmon River on the 

 north and the Grand Canyon on the south ; between the State of 

 Colorado on the east and California on the west. Within these 

 bounds there are at present 32 National Forests which cover 

 31,020,268 acres at this writing and embrace most of the ground 

 that can properly be considered as forest land. Hence this article 

 will deal only with the problem of forestation as it applies to the 

 National Forests. Nursery work and planting have occasionally 

 been discussed with reference to eastern conditions, less fre- 

 quently with reference to western conditions. Not only are the 

 topography, climate, fauna and flora, those factors which deter- 

 mine and influence kind and character of tree growth, different 

 in this region, but the technical and economic problems are like- 

 wise different. While it might be possible in this article to con- 

 sider the physical factors in their relation to tree growth at some 

 length, it is the writer's aim to treat the subject from the stand- 

 point of one who is interested in getting practical results and to 

 take up the theoretical only in so far as it has direct bearing upon 

 the practical. 



During the past summer some criticism appeared against the 



CT, policy of the Forest Service on the ground that large areas of 



F; grazing land had been included within the National Forests in 



this District, which the Forest Service was now improving as 



CQ range property instead of stocking with trees and that the inten- 

 : ;- tion of reforesting denuded lands had been given up. While the 



