FOREST SERVICE. 



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INCKEASB OF COOPERATIVE FOBEST PLANTING. 



The most notable phase of the cooperative planting work during 

 the year has been the increasing requests for assistance made by 

 cities, water companies, railroads, and other large owners. A forest 

 nursery was established and a planting plan is being made for 

 some 25,000 acres of denuded land along the Chateaugay division of 

 the Delaware and Hudson Railroad in the Adirondacks, while for 

 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad an examination was made of sev- 

 eral parcels of land in West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. A 

 planting plan was made and planting was begun on a 3,000-acre for- 

 est park for the city of Los Angeles, Cal., and application was received 

 for a similar plan for a large forest park in the city of Helena, 

 Mont. Watershed planting is receiving increasing attention, and 

 the practical bearing of reforestation upon irrigation and various 

 industries is becoming more thoroughly recognized. The Fort Bay- 

 ard Military Reservation was examined for the War Department. A 

 planting plan was made for 4,000 acres of the reservation, and a 

 nursery was established. The development of these large projects 

 indicates the increasing scope of cooperative forest planting, and is a 

 natural result of earlier educational work and of increasing needs. 



INVESTIGATIONS OF PLANTED AND NATURAL TIMBER. 



The field studies to accumulate all available data on forest plant- 

 ing have been continued in the Middle West, in order to determine 

 for definite regions the best species for commercial and protective 

 planting, the best cultural methods, and what may be expected from 

 the species planted. Such studies were completed last year in North 

 and South Dakota, western Minnesota, Illinois, eastern Nebraska, 

 and western Texas. A similar study is being made in Iowa. 



POPULAR INFORMATION. 



Leaflets on the planting range, silvical qualities, proper methods 

 of propagation and care, and economic uses of such trees as can be 

 recommended for commercial and protective forest planting, and on 

 common subjects of inquiry, such as spacing, transplanting, heeling 

 in, packing and shipping young trees, and the cultivation of forest 

 plantations, have been prepared and printed. To supplement the 

 planting leaflets a mimeographed sheet for each important species 

 has been prepared, giving the range of quotations for seed, seedlings, 

 and transplants, and list of dealers from whom planting material 

 may be obtained. 



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