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be restricted, and that no timber cutting be alkfwed except for local use on the 

 watersheds of Basin Creek in the Helena Reserve and of McClellan and Beaver 

 creeks in the Elkhorn. 



S. N. Spring, who has been conducting watershed studies on the Leadville 

 and Sevier reserves, finds that while the general water supply for towns de- 

 pending on reserve drainage basins is adequate, planting is much needed to im- 

 prove the stream flow for irrigation purposes. 



Bangers' Nurseries. 



Plans for nine rangers' nurseries in the Jemez Reserve have been submitted 

 by F. J. Phillips. Most of the sites are at elevations of from 7,000 to 9,000 

 feet. The recommendations cover the preparation of the ground, seed collect- 

 ing, and planting. Yellow pine, red and white fir, and Engelmann spruce are 

 to be used. 



J. D. Guthrie has reported that there are few desirable sites for rangers' 

 nurseries in the San Francisco Mountains and Grand Canyon (South) reserves. 

 One site has been selected in the latter reserve and a small nursery established 

 and two sites have been selected in the former. 



Planting Stations. 



As noted in the November program, a promising watershed planting project 

 has been found in the Pecos Reserve. Headquarters for a nursery and station 

 will probably be established on Santa Fe Creek, about 6 miles from Santa Fe, 

 on the Amanda Boardman ranch, which the president of the Santa Fe Water 

 and Light Company has offered to purchase and place at the disposal of the 

 Government for nursery purposes. 



About 50,000 seedlings from the Henninger's Flat nursery will be planted by 

 rangers in the San Gabriel and San Bernardino reserves as soon as the rainy 

 season begins. Rangers will receive about 1,500 trees each, with instructions 

 for planting them in favorable situations in their districts. In this way the 

 seedling output will be increased at slight expense and a large number of ex- 

 perimental plantations will be started thruout the reserves. 



Work on the new station building at the Halsey station is progressing rapidly. 

 It is expected that the building, which is to be a l^-story concrete block struc- 

 ture, will be completed during the winter. 



As part of the new record-keeping system for the planting stations a set of 

 cards has been issued covering " seed sowing," " seedlings," " transplants," 

 " field planting," " field plantations." The cards, which give a complete record 



