Society Americon Foreslers Looks lnto Future Woter Supply ond Proteclion

Horn' the state of California is planning to insure iuture water supplies and rvhat foresters are doing to protect today's suppiies in the central Sierra Nevada were the subjects featured at this year's spring fieid meeting of the Northern California Section, Society of American Foresters, reports Clyde Walker, editor, Northern California Section, Society of American Foresters.

Some 130 foresters gathered at Shaver Lake, about 60 miles northeast of Fresno, {or the two-day meeting. Friday, June 4, was highlighted by a dinner meeting at which Medill Thiebaud, hydraulic engineer in the State Division of Water Resources, described studies being made to develop a state-wide water plan. June 5 featured a field trip to inspect forestry practices and erosion control measures on lands of the Southern California Edison Company and the Sierra National Forest.

California has plenty of water, said Mr. Thiebaud, but not in the right places. Two-thirds of the annual runofi is from streams in the northern third of the state. Consequently, one of the main problems is to transport water to drier parts of the state, as by the proposed Feather River project. Another problem is to develop methods of using underground basins for storage of excess runoff. Most of the good surface reservoir sites are already taken, Thiebaud said, but ground water basins provide an ad- ditional means of regulating water supplies. He pointed out that whereas Shasta Dam provides storage space for 4.5 million acre feet of r,vater, the underground basins of San Joaquin Valley alone can store more than 90 million acre feet.

Thiebaud praised foresters' efforts to protect stream flow through wise land use, and said engineers were especially inlslssted in proposals for research in ways to retard melting of the Sierra Nevada 5ns1y p?ck through speciall)designed forest practices.

Several practices designed to protect water supplies in the Shaver Lake area were seen on the June 5 field trip. Plans of the Southern California Edison Company for improvement of company-owned watershed lands were outlined by H. L. Moore, manager of the company's right of ivay and land department, and by K. D. Henze, consulting forester of the firm of Mason, Bruce and Girard.

Thinnings made to improve the growth of Sugar Pine trees and plantings of Ponderosa Pine seedlings in cleared brushfields were shown to visiting foresters by Bill Wingo, resident forester for the power company. .Use of a tractormounted chipper to chew up logging slash and spread a protective mulch on bare skid trails was demonstrated by national forest workers; this practice reduces 'fire hazard. and helps control erosion.

Other stops on the field trip included a six-year-old pine plantation in an area wiped out by forest fire in 1947, and the Dinkey Creek sarvmill of Byles-Jamison.

At the sawmill, Al Hildman, chairman of the Forest Conservation Committee of the Western Pine Association, rvelcomed Southern California Edison Company into the Tree Farm family. He commended the company's faith in long-range forestrl-. In accepting the Tree Farm certificate, J. F. Davenport, vice-president of Southern California Edison, declared, "We want to make this a model tree farm for the state, and the key to success is continued cooperation with the Forest Service, the California Division of Forestry, county agencies, and the Byles-Jamison Company."

John Callaghan, deputy state forester at Redding and chairman of the Northern California professional foresters, was general chairman of the meeting. Cecil E. Metcalf, deputy state forester at Fresno, was in charge of local arrangements for the meeting.

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