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 FOREST EXTENSION. 



Mr. R. C. Bryant, whose resignation from the Service is noted elsewhere, has been 

 called to the Yale Forest School to assist in organizing the work which is to be car- 

 ried on in connection with the Chair of Applied Forestry and Practical Lumbering 

 established by subscriptions of lumbermen thruout the country. 



Watershed Studies. 



Forest Reserve officers, in response to Reserve Order No. 17, recommended 

 examinations of city watersheds in the Mount Graham, Final Mountains, Chiri- 

 cahua, Santa Rita, Santa Catalina, and Tonto forest reserves in Arizona. During the 

 summer Mr. L. C. Miller examined the first three of these reserves and also part of 

 the San Francisco Mountains Reserve. He found no important city watersheds in 

 need of planting, but advised certain utilization planting, and established two small 

 nurseries. The city watershed work on the other Arizona reserves will be continued 

 this fall. 



It is found that the Pocatello Forest Reserve offers a watershed project much 

 needed for the city of Pocatello. A nursery, 48 by 72 feet in size, will be started this 

 fall under the direction of Mr. A. E. Oman. 



Mr. J. M. Fetherolf, who has been conducting field work in the Uinta Forest 

 Reserve, finds that the drainage basins upon which Ogden, Provo, Logan, and sev- 

 eral smaller towns depend for their water supply, can be greatly improved by forest 

 planting. -A good nursery site is available near Kamas. 



A city watershed project in the Pecos River .Reserve has been reported on favora- 

 bly in a preliminary report by Mr. H. P. Baker and Mr. F. J. Philips. The Gallinas 

 River and Santa Fe Creek drainage basins contain several good planting sites. Plant- 

 ing will benefit the water supply of Las Vegas and Santa Fe. 



Mr. John D. Guthrie, who has been conducting watershed studies and establishing 

 rangers' nurseries in Idaho, has been transferred to the San Francisco Mountains 

 Forest Reserve to take up rangers' nursery work. After he has covered this reserve 

 he will go to the Tonto Forest Reserve for similar duty, and in addition make a 

 special study of the conditions in the vicinity of the Roosevelt dam of the Salt River 

 irrigation project. 



Bangers' Nurseries. 



Plans for rangers' nurseries are beginning to come in from the technical men who 

 have been assisting in starting these nurseries during the summer. Wherever possi- 

 ble, shade frames have been constructed and the ground prepared for seed sowing 

 next spring. The plans submitted will be edited and copies sent to the rangers con- 

 cerned. Actual work is being undertaken this fall only where permanent head- 

 quarters have been established. The nurseries thus started under technical super- 

 vision will serve as models for the rangers in undertaking similar work in the future. 



