Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Management of Ponderosa Pine in the Southwest as Developed by Research and Experimental Practice
Ponderosa pine, from the very beginning of the conservation movement, has figured as a leading timber species. In 1908 G. A. Pearson, a year out of forest school, was sent to Arizona to study natural regeneration of this tree, then called Western yellow pine. Commercial logging was in full swing on both private and public lands. In the national forests, despite measures that seemed adequate for natural reforestation, seedlings started sparingly after cutting. To provide information on natural regeneration as well as on other phases of ponderosa pine management, the Forest Service established the Fort Valley Forest Experiment Station in 1909. The research field covered Arizona and New Mexico, but work was concentrated largely in what is now the Fort Valley Experimental Forest, a branch of the Southwestern Forest and Range Experiment Station.
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