valuable pieces of worli which has ever "been undertaken "by 

 the District, and that is tha oeason why it is Jept where 

 it oan be seen. The results are valuable boce-use at small 

 oost wo demonstrated the utter irnraoticability of under- 

 t airing on a lar^e scale the improvement of rentes through 

 artificial processes. During 1911 and 1912 we started only 

 16 new reseoding erperinants. 



Effect of Grazing on 2re-e Reproduction. T7e have 

 in District 5 the only intensive eirpariment which has been 

 undertaken in any of the Districts, to determine the per- 

 centage of seodinB injured b^r shoop, cattle or goats for 

 o&oli particular Irind of locality; the relation of intensity 

 of injury to intensity of grazing; season of grazing and 

 methods of handling; ultimate daaace to tinber from each 

 of the various Zrincls of injic*y anc the possibility of el- 

 iminating d^nage "by noro careful managensnt of /^razing. 

 This is being imdortdi^n on the Shasta under the immediate 

 direction of Mr.Deyfcon, Plejit Geologist of the Uashington 



office. 



RCJIP:O Reconnaissance. Mr. Jardine concurs now with 

 our view that intensive reconnaissance is not advisable on 

 most of otir timbered forests. "Je have actually done some 

 range reconnaissance more or less in accordance with the 

 outline on the Mono Porest where Mr. Maulo has confined it 



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