Long conservation tradition

rfllfBER management, conservation and r forestrv. so much in the news todav" is an old s6.y to the Pacific Lumber'Co., celebrating its 100th birthday during 1969.

From the early years of TPL-and despite some early "competition" between ranch managers and timber managersthe policy of keeping and maintaining "cut-over" lands in good condition has persisted.

Beginning in the '20s, seeding of cutover lands was practiced and a tree seedling nursery was established in 1922. In that same year, Willis G. Corbitt, graduate of the University of Washington's School of Forestry, became the first in a line of "company foresters".

In the '4,0s, selective logging became economically feasible, made possible by the new high-powered logging tractors. This evolved into present-day practices wherein a predetermined percentage of mature trees in a stand are harvested; the remaining varied age trees provide seed and the younger trees are left unharmed to continue and accelerate their growth.

Young growth stands today are under intensive management to provide timber for the future.

Back as far as the 1920's, Palco recognized the aesthetic parkJike quality of the super redwoods growing in alluvial flats along stream beds. Logging in such areas was withheld and the areas made available to the State of California and other public grouPS.

The Pacific Lumber Co. was one of the founders of the Redwood Region Conservation Council (195I) and has established a Demonstration Forest under that pro' gram at Jordan Creek, just ofi the Redwood Highway, where a self-guiding for' estry tour and picnic area are open to the public. Certain of its timberlands are open to the public (in season and with permit) {or' fishing and hunting.

In 1964, the Murphy Memorial Grove was presented to the Boy Scouts of Hum' boldt County for use in their camping activities.

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