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did not contain at least one seedling, while on areas which had been 

 harrowed or brushed the seedlings came up in groups and not uni- 

 formly. 



Twenty-five hundred additional acres of the Mount Hebo area were 

 sown during the winter of 1910-11 to Douglas fir, Sitka spruce, and 

 Norway spruce, while some small tracts were seeded to walnut, shell- 

 bark hickory, and red oak. 



MANZANO NATIONAL FOREST, NEW MEXICO. 



On April 7 and 8, 1910, an area situated on the east slope of the 

 northern portion of the Manzano National Forest was sown to 

 Douglas fir. This area was formerly covered with a heavy stand 

 of Douglas fir and white fir, but repeated fires had reduced it to a 

 waste of scrub oak, brush, and worthless aspen thickets. Its altitude 

 is approximately 7,500 feet. The sowing was done by the seed-spot 

 method. An inspection made late in the summer showed from 1 to 

 6 seedlings in a spot. In fact, there was hardly a blank spot in the 

 whole tract sown. 



MINIDOKA NATIONAL FOREST, IDAHO. 



In the fall of 1909 a tract on the Minidoka National Forest, at an 

 altitude of 6,250 feet, the natural cover of which is aspen, sagebrush, 

 and patches of grass, was sown to Douglas fir. The soil is gravelly 

 loam, with some lime, and the vicinity is not one in which Douglas 

 fir grows naturally. Sowing was done by the seed-spot method, with 

 the spots spaced 5 feet apart, and prepared by means of rakes. Two 

 and one-half pounds of seed per acre were used. The tract was pro- 

 tected against stock by a four-wire fence, but since rodents were not 

 numerous no poison was used. An excellent stand of seedlings ap- 

 peared early in the spring, both under cover of vegetation and on 

 open grassy areas. On July 12, 1910, however, after a drought of 

 approximately four months, an inspection showed that the seedlings 

 not protected by cover of vegetation had disappeared. Under the 

 aspen and chaparral, however, the effect of the drought was not so 

 marked, and the seedlings there made a good showing. On October 

 14, 1910, another inspection showed an average of 7 or 8 living plants 

 on each spot protected by aspen. 



UINTA NATIONAL FOREST, UTAH. 



On this Forest most of the burned areas originally occupied by 

 coniferous stands come up to scrubby stands of aspen. The site 

 selected for direct seeding was at an altitude of 7,500 feet on a south- 

 ern slope within the lodgepole.-pine belt. The soil was a clayey loam, 



