12 Department Circular 318, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 



Because of the ruggeclness of the Crook National Forest, only 

 6,436 acres of agricultural land have been alienated under the forest 

 homestead act. These lands lie in 120 tracts, which contain all of the 

 agricultural lands that were in Government ownership at the time 

 of the creation of the forest. 



Roads, trails, and telephone lines are being developed on the 

 Crook National Forest both to aid the administration and protection 

 of the forest and to allow the public to visit it more conveniently. 

 There are hundreds of beautiful camping places in these mountains, 

 and already Mount Graham, although difficult of access, has become 

 a favorite summer recreation ground for residents of the adjacent 

 Gila Valley. The Finals, Avhere road work is progressing, are also 

 visited each year by an increasing number of persons from the min- 

 ing towns of Globe and Miami. 



The Mount Graham division of the forest has been set aside as a 

 game preserve where hunting is prohibited. On the remainder of the 

 forest, however, there is fair deer shooting in the fall of the year. 



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Fig. 7. — The mountain streams afford good trout fishing 

 THE KAIBAB NATIONAL FOREST 



(In Coconino County) 



_ Just north of the Grand Canyon, in a country little known as yet, 

 lies the Kaibab National Forest, with a gross area of 770,900 acres, 

 administered from the town of Kanab, IJtah. The forest takes its 

 name fi^om the Kaibab Plateau upon which it is located. This 

 plateau in turn is named after a small division of the Piute Indians 

 who roamed there, and it is said to mean " on the mountain." 



Although the Kaibab National Forest is estimated to contain 

 1,102,000,000 board feet of saw timber and 533,000 cords of fuel wood, 

 there is practically no cutting at the present time because of the 

 inaccessibility of the timber. On the south, the Grand Canyon of the 

 Colorado prevents access, and the closest railroad to the north is 185 

 miles from the timber. Over 80 per cent of the saw timber consists 

 of a heavy stand of western yellow pine, which, from a logging and 



