102 SURVEYS OF FOREST RESERVES. 



FOREST MANAGEMENT. 



Efforts in the line of forest mauagemeut must be devoted chiefly to 

 protection against fire and to supplying the requirements of ranchers 

 for fuel and timber. A careful study of the reproduction of this forest 

 must be made before the cutting of live trees can be safely undertaken 

 on any large scale. 



BOUNDARIES. 



I am not sufficiently acquainted with the reserve, either personally 

 or from the reports of others, to suggest any changes in its boundaries. 



THK PAN JACINTO FOEBST KBSBRVE. 



SUMMAKT. 

 Situation: Southern California. Acres. 



Area within present lines 737,280 



Adverse holdings, railroad lands 373, 550 



Per cent of 

 total area. 



Area of forest and hrush land (?) 95 



Area marked by fire (?) 95 



Area badly burned (?) 50 



Revised lines can not be drawn without further study and a map. 

 Force recommended: One guard, 4 iire watchers, and a j^art of the attention of the 

 ranger stationed at Sau Bernardino, after other more pressing reserves have been 

 taken in hand. 

 Sources of information: Personal examination, September 24 and 25, 1896. 



A mountain region rising above an arid plain, clothed with brush and open forest. 



The spread of fires results in changing the forest into brush. Its restoration will 

 he difficult. 



Fertile irrigable lands surround the reserve on all sides, to which the protection of 

 the streams is essential. 



Mining has been little developed. 



Agriculture is not important within the reserve. 



Grazing is not important within the reserve. 



Provision should be made to supply the settlers and ranchers in the irrigated 

 region below the reserve with timber and fuel. 



The San Jacinto Forest Keserve is situated in southern California, 

 south of the San Gorgonio Pass, which separates the mountain region of 

 which it forms a part from the San Bernardino Mountains to the north. 

 With a total area of 737,280 acres, it includes 373,550 acres of railroad 

 land, or approxim ately one-half its whole extent. The San Jacinto Range 

 is in general smooth in topographic features, and rugged only in the upper 

 part. The climate is dry, especially on the eastern slope, below which 

 lies the desert. 



THE FOREST. 



The forest is composed chiefly of yellow pine, which here reaches aver- 

 age dimensions, approximately, as follows: Height, 80 feet; diameter, 2 

 feet; length of clear trunk, 30 feet. This tree has been cut for lumber 

 to some extent, but difficulties of transportation have prevented the 

 development of the Sau Jacinto forest on any large scale. Other trees 

 are the big-cone fir, the incense cedar, and Coulter pine. Several 

 species of evergreen oaks occupy the lower slopes to the west, and the 

 sugar pine is said to occur in small numbers. The reproduction of the 

 forest is in general slow and rather poor, and its recovery from injury 

 by Are and cutting is a matter of very considerable periods of time. 



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