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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Phoio by E. T. Kirk. 



A Gullied Hillside. 



THIS HILLSIDE SHOULD BE DEVOTED TO THE PRODUCTION OF A TIMBER CROP. 



HAS PROTECTED THE LOWER SLOPE. 



NOTE HOW THE STRIP OF TIMBER 



through which rot and insects enter. 

 Fire also kills young growth, and usually 

 of the best kinds. Thus evergreen 

 seedlings may be wiped out, and hard- 

 woods, especially the poorer species 

 like birch or aspen, given opportunity 

 to increase. Employees should be in- 

 structed to use extreme care to prevent 

 and extinguish fires. Brush from the 



tops of felled trees should be peeled and 

 burned where it will do no harm, or 

 lopped so it will lie close to the ground 

 and decay rapidly. Where there is 

 danger of fire from railways, highways 

 or adjoining timber tracts, fire lanes 

 10 to 20 feet wide, or wider, should be 

 cleared and burned at the approach of 

 danger seasons. 



Proceeds of a Timber Sale. 



Sufficient ties were cut from the Wasatch Forest from July to January to amount, at 8 cents 

 apiece stumpage, to $24,000, more than is required to administer the entire forest for twelve months. 



Forest Utilization. 



Examination last summer of remote parts of the Salmon and Challis Forests is resulting in 

 more complete utilization. A stockman of Mountain Home has been granted permit for 10,000 

 sheep on the Salmon, and other stockmen will be shown over at present unused ranges as soon as 

 snow conditions permit. 



Rotation Grazing Planned. 



The Emmett-Payette National Forest Woolgrowers' Association at its recent annual meeting 

 decided to use the rotation or deferred system of grazing the coming season in handling their bands 

 of sheep on the Payette Forest ranges. This means that the forage on a different portion of each 

 allotment will be allowed to mature and disseminate its seed each year before being grazed, thus 

 assuring reseeding of the entire area at least once during every three to five years. 



