National Forest Resources of Utah 



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pied by national forests, and their construction really has little to do 

 with national forest administration or the utilization of national forest 

 resources. If the national forests belonged to companies operating 

 them for profit, many of these roads certainly would not be built. 

 Most of them are constructed as a part of the public responsibility of 

 the Federal Government to the Western States. 



Table 3. — Utah Xational Forest receipts and expenditures 



Average receipts 



Average expenditures 





$25, 567. SO 



199, 745. 42 



7. 449. 08 



General administration. 



S223. 746. 82 







13, 803. 10 



Other receipts.. 



Roads (Forest Service and Bureau of 

 Public Roads) 







417, 354. 54 



Total 



232. 762. 30 



Total . 







654.904.46 





25 per cent of receipts to States 



58, 190. 57 





712. 095. 03 









SUMMARY 



The facts and figures in this circular show clearly the two things 

 that especially characterize the national forests of Utah: (1) The 

 closeness of the national forests to the most populous valleys of the 

 State, and (2) the unusual variety of resources that the high mountains 

 occupied by the national forests furnish. How these areas and re- 

 sources are handled is of fundamental importance to nearly all the 

 people of the State. 



It is the aim of the Forest Service to grow and preserve the timber 

 so that as time goes on and timber becomes less plentiful in the 

 United States the valleys of Utah will be able to draw perpetually 

 upon the neighboring mountains for much of their supply. 



The national forest administration means that the summer forage 

 crop will be perpetuated, neither lessened by overgrazing nor allowed 

 to go to waste, so that the 157.000 cattle and horses and 750, 000 

 sheep now dependent upon national forest summer ranges will always 

 find the forage there. 



Xational forest administration means that the streams issuing 

 from the high, forested mountains will be kept as steadily flowing 

 streams, instead of being subject to violent floods after every summer 

 storm and drying up during long hot seasons. Thus they will best 

 serve the public interest, guaranteeing continuous adequate supplies 

 of water for irrigation, domestic use. and the development of hydro- 

 electric power without excessive maintenance charges for reservoirs, 

 canals, and ditches. 



Finally, national forest administration means that all these re- 

 sources will be handled with due regard to their intricate relation- 

 ships one with another. An absolutely ideal watershed might be 

 considered one which was entirely free from grazing and timber cut- 

 ting. An ideal range might call for the elimination of brush lands 

 and timber patches. Maximum forest production might conceivably 

 call for the elimination of grazing in certain places, or elsewhere the 

 clean cutting of hillsides followed by planting to other more valuable 

 species. Any of these methods of management of one resource 



