The National Forests of Arizona 7 



and gi^azing must be regulated. This is assured under national 

 forest administration. 



In order to make mountain areas like the Apache Forest more 

 accessible to travelers, and in order that fires may be more easily 

 rea€hed. the Forest Service is developing lines of communication. 

 In accordance with this policy, 209 miles of telephone lines, 84 miles 

 of roads, and 160 miles of trails have been constructed on this forest. 

 A road from Clifton to Springerville, running through the heart of 

 the finest mountain scenery on the Apache Forest, is now being built 

 by the Forest Service in cooperation with Apache and Greenlee 

 Counties. This project, which will be completed before the end of 

 1924, will allow travel between northern and southern transcon- 

 tinental routes. Several other roads, which connect with the trans- 

 continental system, are now being built into the forest from the 

 north. Tlie completion of these roads will do much to make the 

 forest more poj^ular for camping, fishing, and hunting. Even then, 

 however, many portions will still be far enough in the '' backwoods *' 

 to delight those who desire to get away from the main routes of 

 travel. AVithin the Apache Xational Forest there are several hun- 

 dred miles of trout watei^. As the State has recently established a 

 fish hatchery within this forest, excellent trout fishing is now as- 

 sured during the summer months. 



THE COCONINO NATIONAL FOREST 



(In Coconino and Yavapai Counties) 



The most accessible and at present the most valuable of an}^ of 

 Arizona's national forests is the Coconino, lying on the Colorado 

 Plateau on both sides of the Santa Fe Railway. It is a large, com- 

 l^aratively flat area, at an elevation of approximately 7,000 feet, cut, 

 however, toward the south end by several deep canyons. Xorth of 

 the Santa Fe Railway, rising abruptly from this plateau to an eleva- 

 tion of 12.600 feet, are the San Francisco Peaks, the highest in 

 Arizona. The Coconino National Forest contains a gross area of 

 1.909.278 acres and is administered from Flagstaff, which is located 

 within its boundaries. The forest takes its name from the Hopi 

 word Kohonino. which was the name at one time applied to the 

 Havasupai Tribe of Indians of Cataract Canyon. 



Originally, the Colorado Plateau contained the finest body of west- 

 ern yellow pine timber in the Southwest. Because of its accessibility 

 from the Santa Fe Railway, however, much of this timber has been 

 cut by large mills at Flagstaff', Cliff's, and AVilliams, Ariz. The forest 

 still has nearly 4.000,000,000 feet of mature yellow pine, a part of 

 which is now under contract for cutting by the three large mills in 

 this region. Tliis forest now supplies a large part of the lumber 

 produced in Arizona, and under the Forest Service policy of con- 

 servative cutting, it will supply the lumber industry for a long 

 period of years. At the present time, the annual cut of timber from 

 this forest is about 35.000.000 board feet. There are on the forest 

 also about 1,500,000 cords of piiion and juniper, portions of which 

 are now being cut for posts and firewood. 



A comprehensive plan for handling the timber resources has 

 been completed for the saw-timber type on the forest. According 



