The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-09-08
PEOPLE interested
In TREE PLANTING
DEAN MILLER RETURNS FROM
TWO MONTHS TRIP TO SOUTH
STATE POINTS

People are coming more and more
to realize the vital relationship exist
ing between irrigation water for farm
ing purposes and the forest covered
watersheds of the state,'' said Dean F..
q. Miller, of the school of forestry
at the University of Idaho, Thursday
morning. The Dean has just return
ed from two months trip to the CEN
trail and southern portions of the
state for the purpose of encouraging
the establishment of home centers of
wood supply and the planting of wind
and shelter breaks.
Throughout his trip the dean visit
ed nearly all of the irrigated and many
OF the dry farming sections. He paid
particular attention to the irrigation
project areas. Among the projects
visited were Boise, Caldwell, Twin
Falls, Jerome, Minidoka and others
He also visited the Dubois proposed
project in the northeastern section
near the Montana line.
81 spent some time in the Cash riv-
er country, the upper Snake river
country and in fact in practically
every section of central and southern
Idaho,'' said the dean
II found that a large amount of tree
planting had already been done by the
people of that section and that there
was considerable interest in extend
ing the paintings of private groves
in new territory where very little at
tention has heretofore been devoted
to the raising of timber for wood and
windbreaks.
cit is very evident that within a.
short time tree planting will be un-
dertaken on a much larger scale in
that part of the country Already
many of the farmers are using home
grown timber. There is plenty of
timber in southern and central Idaho,
la,rf <,f %I,4 {<lo for
removed to be able to get the supply
from the virgin forest areas.
"It is the purpose of the forest ex-
tension work being undertaken by the
school of forestry at the university to
give the people of the state advice
as to the kind of trees best adapted
to planting in the various sections
and also as to the methods to employ
in growing the groves.
During my trip sznet a number of
different groups such as the CONNER
cial and other civic clubs and discuss
ed with them the problems concern
ing home grown forest products. All
were very much interested and no
doubt considerable good will result
f'In fact considerable good is already
according to these trips. We are not
only able to give out information, but
We are able to compile considerable
data about the trees of the different
d1Str1ctS which can be ready aVa1laD1e
at the office and serve to promote the
forest production of the state
1.-The best feature of the situation is
the fact that the people of the state
are awakening to the knowledge of the
worth of the forest covered areas CT
the state to irrigation water. The
government has approximately 4,o00,-
300 acres of forest covered watersheds
in the central and south districts of
the states and this very materially af-
fects the supply of water available of
all farmers who live below
Were it not for these fOrested
regions now made produc-
ice by irrigation would suffer great
y because of the lessned supply that
void obtain at the sources of the r1v-
ars and creeks because of the lack
Of timber
Crops are very good throughout the
section he visited said the dean. "The
Try land crops are better than they
have been for several years. In the
briggs and Ashton section the wheat
yield was very good. In general both
and dry land crops yielded
very well this year"