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the ranchers who use the range, but that the forest growth might 

 not be damaged by excessive or poorly regulated grazing. 



Watershed protection, which is largely fire protection on the 

 Gunnison, has a very practical connection with the Uncompahgre 



Fig. 16. — Forest rangers on snowshoes marking lodgepole pine for sale. Each tree 

 to be cut is blazed at breast and then stamped " U. S." The timber will be used 

 for railroad ties in the West. Holy Cross National Forest 



reclamation project which in 1925 covered 61,637 acres of land, with 

 a crop production valued at $3,032,295. Without irrigation this land 

 would be practically valueless for farming. The drainage of about 

 80 per cent of the Gunnison National Forest goes into this project 

 and is diverted through a tunnel nearly 6 miles long, built at a cost 



