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species will be planted in seed spots made by digging up small 

 patches of ground with a hoe or mattock, before the seed is sown. 

 The other acre strip for each species will be sown by broadcasting 

 the seed over the ground and then raking the soil. The follow- 

 ing fall, additional experimental strips will be laid out in order 

 to make a comparison between the results of spring and fall 

 sowing. In a similar manner, a typical area will be selected on 

 one of the burned areas at the lower elevation, where the original 

 stand of timber was yellow pine and Douglas fir. Since this 

 latter type would be more important for timber production than 

 the former, due to the more valuable species that can be grown, 

 and also on account of its being more accessible for lumbering, 

 more extensive experiments would no doubt be advisable. On 

 this area, probably six one-acre strips for both the important 

 species would be sown and planted this spring. As for example, 

 one acre broadcast with seed, with no treatment of the soil; 

 the second acre strip planted in prepared seed spots one foot in 

 diameter, which are spaced about 4x4 feet apart; the third 

 strip broadcasted, and the soil harrowed; the fourth strip 

 broadcasted with the soil harrowed both before and after sowing; 

 the fifth acre planted with an old fashioned hand corn planter 

 in seed spots, and the sixth strip planted with young trees from 

 the nursery. The experiments will be repeated in the fall, with 

 perhaps other variations in the method of sowing. 



The third type of land, grass covered areas, will probably 

 need more preparation than the other types, before sowing or 

 planting can be done successfully. The heavy sod, which in 

 many cases is the result of recurring fires, makes the prospects 

 for successful seed sowing very poor, unless the sod is broken 

 and killed. Where experiments are conducted on this type of 

 land, the soil, in most cases, will be prepared by plowing and 

 harrowing before sowing or planting is attempted. 



Although good results from broadcast sowing may be ex- 

 pected on some of the more favorable locations needing reforest- 

 ing, yet it is probable that the bulk of the land will have to be 

 planted with nursery stock before a stand of timber can be ob- 

 tained. Large areas of treeless land on some of the National 

 Forests will probably never be afforested, on account of the con- 

 ditions, adverse to forest growth, necessitating too great an 

 outlay of money in getting the land stocked even to inferior 

 species of timber. 



The results of planting for city watershed protection as well 

 as for the conservation of water for irrigation purposes cannot be 

 figured in board-foot returns only. The value received in the 

 conservation of the water supply, in many cases, will far outrank 



