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Show 10 an from the overgrazed alps. They produce just as much or more milk as the much rger areas formerly given over to uncontrolled grazing. Cheese product i. on, rmerly conducted at scattered mountain sites, has been moved to a more efficient ntral valley station. The whole dairying industry is more efficient and the st to the farmer lower. The remaining timberline. areas, freed from destructive azing, are now given over to reforestation. Erosion control measures are also ing introduced. Trimming and uncontrolled logging in the timber- producing rests has been eliminated. Forestry is now under the supervision of a certi-ed forest manager instead of being left to the local farmers. This Ziller Valley project embraces an area of 100 square kilometers. It ms to eliminate erosion from 16 stream beds and to eliminate by reforestation 9 ralanche paths. Improvements in forestry have increased immediately the economic eld from lumbering by $ 9,500 annually. With eventual restoration of the full jrest cover when timberline is raised from 1,600 to 2,000 meters, this gain is < pected to rise to $ 30,000 annually. Initial cost of the whole project was set at .4 mill ion dollars, but the economic benefits to residents of the valley has en- Duraged them to contribute to the cost, especially road construction, and the stimated cost has now been lowered to 0.8 million dollars. |