The National Forests of Arizona 5 



build summer homes. Municipalities and associations of various 

 kinds are encouraged to establish community camp grounds. 



To make these forests more accessible and to develop their re- 

 sources, transportation and communication facilities are being built 

 up as rapidly as possible. Approximately 1,500 miles of telei^hone 

 lines have been constructed, and road and trail work is being rapidly 

 extended into these mountain regions. The annual receipts from 

 the Arizona forests are nearly $500,000, of which 25 per cent, or 

 about $125,000, is turned into the county funds for roads and schools. 

 In addition, 10 per cent, or $50,000, is annually used for the con- 

 struction of roads and trails upon the forests. With the steadily 

 increasing receipts, the funds which accrue directly to the benefit of 

 the State will correspondingly increase from year to year. 



The Forest Service maintains the Fort Valley Experiment Sta- 

 tion. 9 miles northwest of Flagstaff. This station studies problems of 

 forestr}' and silviculture, and the putting of its results into prac- 

 tice on the national forests is making the forests more useful as 

 sources of a continuous timber supply. The station has had a very 

 great influence upon forest practice in the southwest and has already 

 overcome some of the most difficult obstacles which confronted Gov- 

 ernment foresters in the regeneration of the timber stands of the 

 Arizona forests. 



Near Tucson, Ariz., the Santa Eita Reserve of some 50,000 acres 

 of semiclesert grazing land is used as a grazing experiment station. 

 Here many of the range problems forest officers meet in handling 

 grazing on the Arizona national forests are studied under actual 

 working range conditions. Over 1,200 head of high-grade range 

 cattle are used on the reserve, the herd being under close observa- 

 tion by the forest officers in charge of the work at all times during 

 the year, the stock being handled by the owners according to a coop- 

 erative schedule. 



The national forests of Arizona are under the supervision of the 

 district forester at Albuquerque, N. Mex., with the exception of the 

 Kaibab Forest, which, because of its location north of the Grand 

 Canyon, has been placed under the supervision of the district forester 

 at Ogden. Utah. Each forest is administered by a forest supervisor, 

 under whom a number of rangers are employed. The supervisors, 

 whose offices are in towns conveniently located in relation to their 

 forests, are glad to give detailed information concerning their re- 

 spective forests. 



THE APACHE NATIONAL FOREST 



(In Apache and Greenlee Counties) 



Off the beaten path, in the White Mountains of Arizona, stretching 

 along the New Mexico line from Springerville to Clifton, lies the 

 Apache National Forest. For the most part it is high mountain 

 country with mountain meadows, rugged peaks, and deep canyons. 

 The forest lies in the country over which the Apache Indians at one 

 time roamed, and from them it takes its name. It covers a gross area 

 of 1,226.420 acres and is administered from Springerville. Ariz., a 

 small town on the transcontinental National Old Trails Highway, 

 about 100 miles southeast of the Santa Fe Railroad at Holbrook, 

 Ariz. 



