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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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advisable to benefit city watersheds in 

 either reserve, since they are fairly 

 well forested, and such small areas as 

 occur are unimportant or are unfa- 

 vorable for planting. He recommends, 

 however, that intensive fire protection 

 be given, that grazing be restricted, 

 and that no timber cutting be allowed 

 except for local use on the watersheds 

 of Basin Creek in the Helena Reserve 



Plans for nine rangers' nurseries in 

 the Temez Reserve have been sub- 

 mitted by F. J. Phillips. Most of the 

 sites are at elevations of from 7,000 

 to 9,000 feet. The recommendations 

 cover the preparation of the ground, 

 seed collecting, and planting. Yellow 

 pine, red and white fir, and Engelmann 

 spruce are to be used. 



J. D. Guthrie has reported that there 



MEETING OF SUPERVISORS OF OREGON RESERVES AT PORTLAND. 

 Reading from left to right, beginning with front row A. S. Ireland, M. L. 

 Erickson.J. B. Adams, D. D. Bronson, G. B. Coleman, F. E. Olmsted, H. K. 

 O'Brien, S. S. Terrill, D. B. Shuller, S. C. Bartrum, W, H. B. Kent, E. T. Allen, 

 G. F. Allen, Fred Hanson, H. F. Potter, John M. Schmidt, G. W. Milham, E. E. Carter 



and of McClellan and Beaver creeks 

 in the Elkhorn. 



S. N. Spring, who has been con- 

 ducting watershed studies on theLead- 

 ville and Sevier reserves, finds that 

 while the general water supply for 

 towns depending on reserve drainage 

 basins is adequate, planting is much 

 needed to improve the stream How for 

 irrigation purposes. 



are few desirable sites for rangers' 

 nurseries in the San Francisco Moun- 

 tains and Grand Canyon (South) re- 

 serves. One site has been selected in 

 the latter reserve and a small nursery 

 established and two sites have been 

 selected in the former. 



As noted in the November program, 

 a promising watershed planting pro- 

 ject has been found in the Pecos Re- 



