FOREST POLICY. 



7. Laws: Usual fire laws since 1876. Tax exemption of 

 $500 worth of property for five years for every acre planted in 

 trees, and of $So for every 100 trees planted on streets or streams. 



8. Reservations: The Fish Lake forest reserve (67,840 

 acres) in the San Pete and San Pitch Range of the Wahsatch 

 Mountains. The Uintah forest reserve (875,520 acres) along the 

 Wyoming line at the head waters of the Green River. 



The Payson forest reserve of 86,400 acres lies south of 

 Utah Lake. 



The Manti forest reserve of 584,640 acres has been estab- 

 lished recently in central Utah; the Logan forest reserve of 182,080 

 acres in northern Utah. 



9. Irrigation: The communal organization of the Mormons 

 has admirably subserved the mutualistic cause of irrigation. 



Dry farming, for wheat and barley, is possible only on 

 some high bench lands. Generally speaking, however, irrigation 

 is [essential for the raising of forage, grain and fruit crops. 



The waters of the northeast, emerging from deep canyons, 

 cut into the mountain sides, are diverted into canals, watering 

 the bench land at the foot of the canyons. Large reservoirs are 

 rare. 



The value of products raised on 630,000 acres of irrigated 

 land with the help of irrigation works costing $5,900,000 amounted 

 to $7,500,000 in the census year. 



FORESTRY 'CONDITIONS OF VERMONT: 



1. Area: 3,900 square miles, or 43% of the State, are under 

 forest. 



2. Physiography: The Green Mountains, running north 

 and south through the heart of the State, rise to peaks over 4,000 

 feet high. Lake Champlain and the Connecticut River are the 

 most important water ways. 



3. Distribution: Originally, white pine, hemlock and spruce 

 were imbedded in a forest of hardwoods (beech, maple, yellow 

 birch and some little basswood, butternut, ashes, red, white and 

 burr oak and chestnut oak on red sandstone). Spruce, with bal- 



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