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the fullest and most permanent revenue which is consistent with his 

 special requirements. 



The chief object of this work is to get forestry into actual practice 

 with successful results. When necessary, therefore, a representative 

 of the Service visits the owner again, confers with him on the details 

 of the plan, and at his expense assists, if he desires it, in the actual 

 work of putting the recommendations in force. Subsequent advice, 

 if needed, can be secured by the owner on the same terms. But the 

 Forest Service, in all cases, preserves its interest in the success of the 

 methods which it has suggested and sends one of its experts about once 

 in two years to inspect the progress of management and to make any 

 fresh suggestions which the lapse of time or the owner's desire may 

 have made necessary or advisable. 



FOREST EXTENSION. 



The work of this office falls under two main heads — planting and 

 nursery operations on the National forest reserves, preceded hj pre- 

 liminary examinations and plans, and advisory assistance to private 

 landowners. 



The section of reserve planting deals with all phases of forest plant- . 

 ing on forest reserves. Examinations are made of reserves or reserve 

 watersheds where the forest cover is deficient, and detailed plans are 

 prepared for portions in need of improvement by planting. Many 

 cities in the West derive their water supply from streams finding 

 source in forest reserveso To protect and improve the water-conserv- 

 ing power of the existing cover on these catchment basins is one of the 

 more striking of the newer projects of the Forest Service. An exam- 

 ination of all important city watersheds within forest reserves has 

 been undertaken. For a number of places in Colorado the field work 

 has been finished. 



Reconnoissance studies for forest planting have been made on exten- 

 sive areas in the Pikes Peak, Wichita, Prescott, Santa Barbara, San 

 Gabriel, San Bernardino, San Jacinto, Sierra, Modoc, Warner Moun- 

 tains, Bear River, Cassia, Lewis and Clark, Salt Lake, and Gunnison 

 forest reserves. 



Six permanent reserve planting stations are now established in the 

 San Gabriel, Dismal River, Pikes ^Peak^ Santa Barbara, Gila River, 

 and Salt Lake forest reserves. Another is to be started in the Bear 

 River Forest Reserve this season (1906). The nurseries contain over 

 3,000,000 trees, and the seed sown this year should produce not less 

 than 5,000,000 seedlings, making a total of over 8,000,000. 



About 500,000 trees — all that were old enough — were planted on 

 the Dismal River, Garden City, Wichita, Pikes Peak, San Gabriel, and 

 Santa Barbara reserves during the spring of 1906. 



