An ovon moro ra^id rate of growth was noted on 

 stunps noar Lov/iG Hill ct nn elevation of ovor six thousand 

 foot, but in ir.nrlclng a ccle for oordwood, some tine ago a 

 Jorost officer was criticized for not roarl3.n<? tho pine clean, 

 tho thoory boing that fir was tho boot treo for the elevation. 

 This \7oulcl bo tru6 if reproduction could be established within 

 a reasonable time, v/hioh does not seem to be the case. The 

 coodlinftS of the yellon pine soern to grow ec fact at seven 

 thousand foet ao they do anywhere and I beliovo that every ef- 

 fort should bo raatf.e to replace tho rod fir vith a rotation of 

 yellow pino raid thr.t tho pine woulcl nature and be replaced by 

 the rod fir without groatly retarding it. 



I believe that v;o vould have better success with 

 seeding yellow pino on those high, damp table-lands than we do 

 at lower elevations as it is the drouth that kills the eeedlingu, 

 and that wo should experiment even if with only very small 

 areas such as oroi bo planted by 'a ranger in a few hours. Of 

 course, in applying this theory, many areas vould be found 

 whore the second growth of fir had attained diameter of six 

 inches or over, after wftiioh it grows very rapidly when the 

 stnnd io opened up, but I know that there are lerge areas 

 where the pine belt may be extended. I boliove that by leav- 

 ing all of tho pine as seed timber, that the above rotation 

 would naturally follow. If a sale is raado in the red fir belt, 

 I would like to see the pine favored on a portion of the area 

 cut-over at least. Splendid opportunity oan bo afforded for 

 studies of rotation and growth at any rate. 



Note ; Whilo surveying boundary north of Mt*Rose, Assis- 

 tant Ranger Hoc din and I observed that where tho mountains had 

 been stripped of all pine large enough t6 make fire wood, dur- 

 ing the boom at W.- shoe and Virginia City, and quite a few large 

 rod fir left, that pine reproduction had seeded the entire 

 tract and these seodlings were on on average ten feet hipjh, 

 while fir seedlings had scarcely made a start, although the 

 cutting extended to above 7,000 feet elevation. 



