TIMBER CONSERVATION IN WYOMING 



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large quantity of lodgepole hewed ties trom the Uinta 

 Mountains of northeast Utah, sent to the Laramie plant. 

 From the forester's point of view, Wyoming is the 

 lodgepole pine State, since this is the most important 

 species in seven of the eight National Forests of the 

 State, and in four of these it comprises 80 per cent of 



at present the closest study of foresters to determine 

 how .best to speed up the cutting cycle with a tree that 

 grows so slowly. 



'The builders of the Wyoming treating plants are not 

 sorry they began to practice conservation. The Union 

 Pacific has added two more retorts to its plant at Laramie., 



ONE OF THE LOADING PLANTS OF THE STANDARD TIMBER COMPANY 



Here ties are delivered on cars of the Union Pacific Railroad, at Granger, Wyoming. Water transportation, by fluming or driving streams, and 

 labor-saving equipment, are used in the largest way in Wyoming tie operations. At Riverton transverse conveyors carry the ties from the 

 main conveyor to the individual piles. 



the stand. In the other National Forest, the Teton, 

 lodgepole will be conspicuous if not the chief species, 

 whether sales are of tie or pulpwood material. Because 

 of its occurrence in a region where other timber trees 

 are less plentiful, and of its promise to restock through 

 plentiful reproduction, this species merits and is receiving 



Based on its experience at Sheridan, the Burlington 

 built a five-retort plant at Galensburg, Illinois, in 1907. 

 If proportionate application of this form of conservation 

 were made throughout the country, a marked reduction 

 in the drain on the forests would result, to the advantage 

 both of users and of the public. 



FOREST FIRE LOSSES 



'T'WO-THIRDS of Canada's forests have been destroy- 

 -*- ed by fire in the last 75 years, according to figures 

 of the Forestry Department of Canada. The amount of 

 timber burned would have supplied the world for 450 

 years at the present rate of consumption and represents 

 a loss of a billion dollars. 



Canada still has 1,900,000 square miles of forests, the 

 forests of British Columbia constituting one of the two 

 greatest tracts of commercial timber in the world, the 

 other being in Russia. 



Forest fires in this country are designated by Colonel 

 W. B. Greeley, Forester, as "the chief cause of forest 

 devastation" and he urges most emphatically the immedi- 

 ate need of a nation-wide drive against the forest fire. 



Not only have great forest fires visited this country 



since the landing of Columbus but large tracts were 

 swept clean of timber before a white man ever used an 

 ax here. An eminent scientist and historian, according 

 to the American Lumberman, states that if the discovery 

 of America had been postponed five centuries, the dis- 

 coverers would have landed on a treeless continent. 

 Indians and lightning set these fires. The Indians were 

 burning the woods to make pasture for deer and buffalo. 



WTN Japan, all the wooded land is carefully guarded, 

 -*- practically every tree on the Government forest 

 land is listed and not one is allowed to be cut down ex- 

 cept with express permission of the Government, and 

 then not unless another tree is at once planted in its 

 place." Mountain Echo. 



