Plans for the Cloquet Station 



FOLLOWING the visit of Raphael Zon, in charge of inves- 

 tigative work of the United States forest service, a 

 definite program for work at the Cloquet Experiment 

 Station at Cloquet, Minn., has been recommended. Although 

 this is purely a Minnesota project, the federal government 

 has announced its intention of lending its aid and has ap- 

 propriated $500 and valuable instruments to forward the 

 work. 



The Cloquet Experiment Station contains 2,400 acres of 

 land, much of which has been cut over by the lumbermen, 

 and part of it burned over by forest fires. The land is typical 

 of the pine belt of Minnesota. According to the report of 

 Mr. Zon it is representative in a limited degree of the Nor- 

 way and Jack Pine lands of Michigan. The experiments made 

 at the Cloquet station, will be taken by the federal govern- 

 ment as indicative of what jnay be done with the Jack Pine 

 land of the national forests in Michigan and will govern the 

 work of reforesting there. 



How the Federal Expert Believes Work Should Be Done in 



Minnesota. 



Nine specific lines of investigative work are recommended 

 by Mr. Zon for the University of Minnesota in co-operation 

 with the state and federal forest service, at the Cloquet sta- 

 tion. They follow: 



I. Studies of the physical and climatic factors affecting the 

 distribution and growth of trees. (Forest Meteorology). 



II. Reforestation studies, including investigation of seed pro- 

 duction, seed collection, seed extraction, seed storage, germi- 

 nation, source of seed, nursery practice, as well as the differ- 

 ent methods of direct sowing and planting and tests of differ- 

 ent species. 



III. Studies of natural reproduction on burned and cut-over 

 areas. 



IV. Methods of cutting timber so as to secure perpetuation 

 of the desirable species without resorting to planting or sow- 

 ing. 



V. A model working plan for the management of the 2,400 

 acres of timber land included in the experiment station. 



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