FORESTRY NOTES 



By Walter Mulford 



Laguna Mountain Recreation Area 



An important new development of recreation in the open is taking place 

 in San Diego County on the Cleveland National Forest. This is the 

 Laguna Mountain recreation area, very careful plans for which were 

 worked out in advance by the United States Forest Service. The plans 

 are being carried out under expert supervision, and the Forest Service 

 has already spent about $60,000 in the development of the area. It is 

 situated only 14^ miles from the San Diego-Imperial Valley state high- 

 way, with which it is connected by an excellent automobile road. It 

 can be reached in a few hours by the people of the hot interior valleys. 

 It has both public camping-grounds and private lots which are leased 

 to individuals for a term of years, thus making it worth while for the 

 lessees to build substantial cabins. Many people are already taking ad- 

 vantage of the opportunity, and Laguna Mountain bids fair to become 

 one of the best outing areas in southern California. 



Large Timber Sale in Northern California 



One hundred million board feet of national forest timber in Siskiyou, 

 Trinity and Shasta counties has been sold by the United States Forest 

 Service to the Weed Lumber Company. The three counties will re- 

 ceive about $70,000 from this sale, as an act of Congress provides that 

 twenty-five per cent of all national forest receipts be paid to the coun- 

 ties within which the forests are located. 



Grazing Animals on the National Forests 



To help in meeting war needs, the United States Forest Service in 1918 

 continued its efforts to secure full utilization of the forage resources of 

 the national forests. In 1917, because of the war, 23,000 more cattle and 

 71,000 more sheep were placed on the national forests of California than 

 had ever been grazed on them previously. In 1918 the numbers were 

 still further increased by 18,000 cattle and 114,000 sheep. This is said 

 to make an almost complete utilization of the grazing ranges of the 

 national forests. 



Sentiment, Cents and Sense 

 A great recreation center at Laguna Mountain ; a large sale of timber 

 in the Shasta region to meet the needs of mankind for wood products; 



