. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 114 AMERICAN FORESTRY is large, this improvement may be attributed almost wholly to the Forest Service putting the grazing on a sub- stantial basis and assisting and en- couraging permittees to develop water. There is still a great possibility for improvement along this line. On the Pecos Forest there are 90,000 acres, which would carry 5,000 cattle or 20,000 sheep, now unused, due to the lack of water, and that could be largely develop- ed by four dams costing $1,000 each. On the Tusayan Forest there are 200,000 acres not fully utilized which would c
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 114 AMERICAN FORESTRY is large, this improvement may be attributed almost wholly to the Forest Service putting the grazing on a sub- stantial basis and assisting and en- couraging permittees to develop water. There is still a great possibility for improvement along this line. On the Pecos Forest there are 90,000 acres, which would carry 5,000 cattle or 20,000 sheep, now unused, due to the lack of water, and that could be largely develop- ed by four dams costing $1,000 each. On the Tusayan Forest there are 200,000 acres not fully utilized which would carry 1,000 more cattle if properly watered. The Sundance Forest has 2,100 acres which were made available by developing four springs in 1913, and plans have been made for developing 20 springs in 1914. A great many of the Forests will show similar work in development accomplished and possible development in the future. RESEEDING THE RANGE. Let me now tell you something of what has been done in the way of reseeding the ranges. In 1907 experi- ments in seeding range to cultivated forage plants were initiated. To date something over 500 experiments, cover- ing 86 Forests, have been initiated. From these tests it has been learned that artificial reseeding can be accom- plished economically only on mountain meadow areas of good soil, and alluvial bottoms along creeks, at an altitude of not higher than within 500 to 1,000 feet of timber line; also that on these areas timothy is ordinarily the best species and that one year's protection from grazing is necessary after seeding. The work under way on artificial reseeding this year and that planned, is to establish more definitely the economic possibility of improving our better soils by reseeding and possibly by irrigation. A number of observations and reports this year show that at a very small cost for diverting the water at the heads of meadows and scattering it out over the area, then seeding the area to timo- thy, the forage crop h
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