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The trees to be cut on a sale are marked in advance by a forest 

 officer, the object being to leave enough of the younger trees to form 

 the basis of a second crop of timber on the same land. A limited 

 number of mature seed-bearing trees also are left to effect natural 

 reforestation should the younger growth be destroyed by fire, insects, 

 or disease. 



Timber on the watersheds of streams is never cut so extensively as 

 to impair the protective cover that the forest affords, because one of 

 the chief objects of establishing and maintaining the national forests 

 is to regulate stream flow. 



Small sales of timber are made by forest officers on the ground 

 without delay. Larger sales are made either by the supervisor of 

 the forest, the regional forester, or the forester, according to the 

 quantity of timber involved. (Fig, 4.) 



Small sales of timber for local use are encouraged. This is one of 

 the ways in which the national forests are made to serve the small 

 lumberman and consumer. Though single- sales have been made for 

 several million board feet, over nine-tenths of all sales made in Utah 

 are for less than $100 worth of timber each. Sales are made to 

 settlers and farmers at the actual cost of making the sales, without 

 charge for the timber itself. 



The national forests of Utah as a whole are not heavily timbered 

 although they contain most of the timber within the State. This 

 timber resource is of great value, and its value will increase as 

 the potential forest lands, through the application of scientific 

 forestry practices, are put into condition for maximum produc- 

 tion. Some loss of timber each year is caused by tree diseases and 

 insect depredations. Measures designed to check such losses are 

 adopted wherever this is practicable. The principal native timber 

 species of Utah are western yellow pine, Engelmann spruce, lodge- 

 pole pine, and Douglas fir. There are also vast quantities of cord- 

 wood such as quaking aspen, juniper, pinon, oak, and maple. It 

 is estimated that the total supply of the State 'is 5,604.000 feet 

 of merchantable saw timber, and 10,700,000 cords of fuel, pole, 

 and post material. There are large areas of aspen which are avail- 

 able for pulp material should a mill be established in this region. 

 The heaviest bodies of timber in the State are in the Uinta Range. 



There are at the present time only a comparatively few mills oper- 

 ating in the national forests. These mills cut timber with a stumpage 

 value of from $20,000 to $40,000 per year. They supply, however, 

 less than one-fifth of the timber used in the State. Most of the 

 timber is imported from outside points where it is more accessible 

 in larger tracts, has the advantage of large-scale production, better 

 grading, and better selling organization. The development of trans- 

 portation facilities within local timber regions and use of more ef- 

 ficient mills will bring about increased activity in the local timber 

 business. 



FREE USE OF TI31BER 



In addition to the timber sold under commercial and domestic-use 

 sales, large quantities of dead and down timber and material suitable 

 for fence posts and other purposes are removed from the national 



