A PROBLEM OF EROSION 



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dwelling at this station is poorly i)laced, a new one is 

 contemplated. It will be located according to the plan. 

 A ranger's wife takes a great interest in the beautifica- 

 tion of the station grounds; such effort, if undirected, 

 may result in inequalities, where if a plan covers this 

 phase of the development, all effort will in the end result 

 in an attractive station. Particular attention should be 

 given to the use of native mater- 

 ial that will not establish artifi- 

 cial conditions requiring con- 

 stant attention. An example here 

 would be the use of shrubs that 

 would freeze down in unusual 

 winter weather, necessitating the 

 cost of replacement. Another 

 example would be the use of 

 flowers requiring cover in the 

 winter or summer watering. At- 

 tention of this kind is costly, be- 

 sides, the nature of the officer's 

 work is such that attention can- 

 not be given at the crucial mo- 

 ment. Upon the other hand, there 

 are hundreds of beautiful wild 

 flowers available for such work 

 that will require no attention. 



There are two schools of land- 

 scaping, the English and the 

 Italian. The English school en- 

 deavors to reproduce or preserve 

 natural effects. What more in- 

 teresting field for the applica 



visited by thousands each summer. A beautiful tree 

 has been left as a centerpiece to a car parking space. 

 Owing to the grading necessary a large mound was left' 

 around the base of the tree. What plants should be put 

 in here to cover the ground of this mound so there will 

 be flowers in spring and summer, a pleasing symphony 

 of fall colors in berries and foliage, not forgetting the 



PUMA PASS RANGER STATION, PIKE NATIONAL FOREST 

 Showing Stoll Mountains in background and Ocean to Ocean Highway in foreground. The absence of 

 trees between the station and road, and particularly around the house, spoils an otherwise attractive 

 setting. Care in planning would obviate injury of this nature. 



necessity of plants to give pleas- 

 ing winter colors in buds, twigs, 

 and stems ? 



A summer home area is lo- 

 cated in a canon. There are 

 trees, conifers and hardwoods, 

 with many varieties of shrubs 

 scattered over the area. He who 

 plots the lots and lays out the 

 approach road to such an area 

 can, by a knowledge of land- 

 scape engineering, bring to bear 

 every factor of esthetic value. 

 Work of this kind will make an 

 area doubly attractive which, un- 

 der an imskilled hand, would 

 prove uninteresting to a home 

 seeker. 



A trail is needed along a ridge 

 and to the top of a mountain. 

 This trail, one of the forest's network of trails, is built to 

 make the ridge accessible for fire patrol and open a way 

 to the top of the mountain that is to be a fire lookout 

 point. If the man who locates this trail has a realiza- 

 tion of the values in the grouping of natural objects in 

 short, if he realizes the values of this group of red fir 

 tinged by the late afternoon or early morning sunlight, 



SHERIDAN RANGER STATION, IN SUMMER 

 A beautifully located station, winter and summer, on which thought has been expended and an api)recia- 



tion of the esthetic. 



tion and cultivation of this princii)le of landscaping can 

 be imagined than the development and care of these 

 forest stations ? 



The Forest Supervisor who cultivates a taste for land- 

 scape engineering can develop a knowledge that will be 

 of great value to him in the administration of his forest. 

 A camp ground has been developed upon an auto road 



