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A new planting station known as the Fort Stanton station was 

 established early in Maj on land near the Fort Stanton military 

 post. A lath house 80 by 160 feet was constructed. 



The Las Gallinas station was established in the Las Gallinas Can- 

 yon, 17 miles northwest of Lag Vegas, N. Mex. A lath house 80 by 

 160 feet was built, a water system installed, and seed sown. The 

 station is well located for distributing stock to other Forests. 



The Wasatch station is proving extremely well suited for nursery 

 purposes. All seedlings wintered remarkably well. The transplant 

 ground will be enlarged before the next planting season. 



At 52 ranger headquarters small nurseries were established with 

 an average size of about 400 square feet. Two larger nurseries 

 were established, one on the Mount Graham Forest, with an area 

 of 14 acres, and one with an area of 12 acres on the Pocatello. The 

 latter will be enlarged into a planting station during the summer. 



On the Garden City Forest it was planned to plant 160,000 trees 

 this, season, but unfavorable wea,ther forced abandonment of part 

 of the work. Of the 91,000 trees planted in the spring of 1906, most 

 were destroyed by drought, rabbits, and a severe prairie fire. The 

 recurrence of such a disastrous fire can be prevented by a better 

 system of fire lines. 



Experimental plantings were made by rangers on the Monterey, 

 San Luis Obispo, Chiricahua, Santa Rita, Tonto, Mount Graham, 

 Pinal Mountains, Lincoln, Pecos, Grand Canyon (S), Yellowstone 

 (Shoshone Division), Pocatello, and Wichita Forests. This work 

 both tests the value of different kinds of trees for various regions 

 and situations and trains the field force of the Service in planting. 



On the Black Hills Forest an exceedingly interesting attempt to se- 

 cure forest renewal through broadcast sowing of seed is being tested. 

 The sowings made in 1905 and 1906 show, on the whole, fairly sat- 

 isfactory results. In 1907 a new line of experiments was begun by 

 selecting twenty different situations, ranging from plowed land to 

 bare hill tops and slopes, and sowing them with varying quantities 

 of seed. If a way can be found of sowing broadcast successfully in 

 this region, a discovery of great importance to forestry in the North- 

 western States will have been made. 



EECONNAISSANCE. 



Investigations were made as to the need for planting both in the 

 National Forests and elsewhere. City and irrigation watershed 

 studies were carried on in more than 30 Forests. Immediate plant- 

 ing can and should be undertaken on the Uinta, Pocatello, Lincoln, 

 and Pecos Forests. The Pocatello watershed in the Pocatello Forest, 

 Big Cottonwood in the Salt Lake Forest, Santa Ynez in the Santa 

 Barbara Forest, Santa Fe in the Pecos Forest, and the watersheds of 

 the cities of Pueblo and Colorado Springs in Pikes Peak Forest, all 

 show denuded slopes on which rise streams that feed city water sup- 

 plies. Large denuded areas in the Lincoln Forest furnish water both 

 for the Hondo Reclamation Project and for the town of Roswell, 

 N. Mex. Outside of the National Forests, information was gathered 

 on tree planting in regions where assistance had been ^sked and the 

 necessary data for advice were lacking, notably on irrigated lands in 

 the North Platte and the South Platte valleys and on the Truckee- 



