Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-16
COOP FORREST SUGGESTIONS.

| Some good suggestions On tree plant,
ing arc being made by the senior Sem.
i ator. from Utah. prominent business
meti. and by one of our local contenl-.
! porales.
We learn that several citizens have
! already expressed q Willingness TO bear
| the expense of planting trees at the
base of Ensign peak this fall II assured
| that the ground would be protected
from the encroachments OF the SAND
| ard gravel dlggers who are now de-
| facing the landscape back Of Salt Lake.
| They favored the idea. of scattering the
seed OF hardy flowers upon the Ensign
peak, which could thus, III a few years,
he made a beautiful and attractive
place for the citizens of Salt Lake.
An annual school picnic at Ensign
| peak on Arbor day is likewise advo-
Gated And we know of nothing better
than this In the way Of beginning
When once the idea OF reformation
takes hold OF the people and is made
part of the work OF the school children,
the future Of forests In this country
will be practically assured.
We quite agree with Senator Shoots
conclusion that if the government dts
tributed seeds and young trees 70 cit
les, counties and states. or made some
provision for the acquisition OF lands
by local communities, with the under
standing that the same be used TOR
forestry purposes, It would not pc long
before Americans would appreciate,
the value of forests with their many
advantages.
A writer In the Herald suggests that
at the base OF Ensign peak IS a large
fiat upon which many trees could pc
planted, and back of the peak are mus
and hollows which, when planted III
trees, would make as large a forest as
any city could desire,
tits believed also that arrangements
could be made for a large school picnic
In Ensign Peak park on Arbor day
next year, when the school children
1 or Salt Lake could plant hundreds OF
/ trees and make the beginning Of the
forest which, BY the time they reach
manhood and womanhood, would be-
come one OF the interesting possessions
of the city.
1t is timely to learn from senator
Shoots account of his trip in Mondays
Descret News that in Zurich, Svitzer-
land, is the best administered forest IN
the world. 1T contains nearly zSoo
acres and is divided into q districts,
each district containing only trees or
a certain age, SO 4 that all trees are
separated according to their age. When
a tree reaches the age Of 100 years, II !
is considered inatured and more pro-
$titable to cut into timber, and it is I'M
mediately replaced by another seed
ling. At the beginning of the year
every tree in the ,..sihlwald" is meas
ufed and the history Of Its. growth ur-
ing the year is carefully recorded. IN
this way a complete stocktaking, as
it were, Of the forest is made every
year, showing the exact growth of the
trees and the amountsof lumber in feet
produced by the forest during the year..
Every tree is numbered, and per-
son can select any tree in the forest
by number, go to the Office get the
record, and read the history OF the
tree from the time it was a seeding.
AT last then, we have both a model
tor and an incentive to reforestation
Why not proceed to do this work?