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<br />Effects of these and eer forest practices on water.elds will be deter- <br />mined in the near future on experimental watersheds now undergoing cali- <br />bration. <br /> <br />By emphasizing the need for thinning overstock stands of pine, the Arizona <br />Watershed Program has provided the climate favoring a new pulp and paper <br />industry for the State, But in a mutually reciprocal manner, the new indus- <br />try will help achieve the objective of thinning overstocked stands, <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />Southwest Forest Industries' new pulp and paper mill near Snowflake is cre- <br />ating far reaching economic benefits to the State of Arizona, This new indus- <br />try is providing new jobs for more than 800 people: newsprint for our news- <br />papers, kraft paper for grocery bags, cartons and wrapping paper, lignin <br />for concrete mix going into Glen Canyon Dam; and bark for a new soil condi- <br />tioning product, Furthermore, this new industry has stimulated real estate <br />transactions and increased de man d s for products provided by our heavy <br />equipment, chemical and electrical industries, <br /> <br />Juniper Control <br /> <br />Of fourteen and a half million acres of pinyon-juniper woodlands in the State <br />(Figure 6) over a million acres have been cleared by cabling, bull-dozing, <br />hand chopping and burning, After clearing, the areas are reseeded to grass <br />(Figure 7), Large juniper removal projects encompassing several thousand <br />acres, occur on several National Forests, Indian Reservations and Bureau <br />Of Land Management lands. <br /> <br />Figure 6, <br /> <br />Stands of juniper and pin yon <br />expo s e the s 0 i I to e r 0 s ion, <br />Reservation. <br /> <br />crowd out grass and <br />Fort Apache Indian <br /> <br />Figure 7, Juniper control followed by burning and re seeding <br />increases forage production and red u c e s erosion, <br />Fort Apache Indian Reservation, <br /> <br />Although effects on water yields have yet to be determined, juniper control <br />benefits livestock production, As a result of reseeding burned-over pinyon- <br />juniper lands on the Hualapai Indian Reservation, grazing has been increased <br />on 10,000 acres from 90 head of steers before treatment to 1500 steers for a <br />5 month grazing season aft e r treatment, Because of increased weights, <br />steers from the converted areas sold from $15.33 to $27,65 more than the <br />steers from untreated juniper woodlands during the past 4 years, <br /> <br />- 10 - <br />