36 BULLETIN 426_, V. S. DEPAETMEXT OF AGRICULTURE. 



that a reasonable present outlay in immature timber left on cut- 

 over areas and in tbe protection of these areas will show a return at 

 that time, or at least that the stumpage thus produced wiU be as 

 cheap as that obtainable by purchase. 



In order to secure a second crop within a reasonable time in the 

 sugar pine-yellow pine type, owners should follow the Forest Service 

 methods of cutting as closely as the necessities of their business will 

 allow, particularly as regards close utilization, leaving immature 

 timber and timber of species which have a greater prospective than 

 present value, such as white fir and cedar. 



On areas cut over conservatively protection from fire must be 

 provided. Promiscuous burning of the slash has been frequently 

 advocated. This method involves the destruction of a large amount 

 of young growth and serious injury to trees left standing, and there- 

 fore can not be indorsed. Careful piling and burning of brush, the 

 method practiced by the Forest Service, at a cost of 25 cents per 

 1,000 feet, is probably too expensive for private owners. A compro- 

 mise between these two methods should prove fairly effective. The 

 brush on portions of cut-over areas located where there is unusual 

 fire risk should be roughly piled away from living trees and clumps 

 of young growth and carefully burned after the fall rains, when fires 

 can be controlled. Piling and burning of this character can be ac- 

 comphshed for from SI to $1.50 per acre. On all other portions of 

 the cut-over area the slash should be distributed over the ground as 

 evenly as possible when the trees are trimmed and measures adopted 

 to prevent fires or to put out quickly those that are started. 



The Forest Service ©fibers to j^rotect, under cooperative agreement, 

 the lumber holdings of owners of areas within CaUfornia National 

 Forests at a cost of from 1|^ to 4 cents per acre, and will also gladly 

 give advice to those who wish to install an independent scheme of 

 protection. 



