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AFTER ALL,YOUR CUSTOMERS foot coast redwood growing on a tree farm near Orick, Humboldt County, the nation's largest trees in bulk are of the Sequoia gigantea species, found on the western slopes of the Sierra mountains. More than 98 percent of the Sierra trees are preserved in government parks and forests.

Is redwood a slow-growing tree? Far from it, answers the'.booklet. Coast redwood, the commercial species, is the nation's fastest growing conifer, and the Sierra redwood is not far behind. Some regrowth trees are now more than 200 feet tall with 6-foot diameters.

The remarkable redwood not only grows like a weed, it is unique among cone-bearing trees in being able to reforest itself in three difierent ways. Commonly, new trees grow from sprouts out of stumps. As many as five or ten shoots may form a familiar oofairy ring" around a parent stump. Redwood roots shoot out new trees the same way. The third method of natural reproduction is by seeds, which usually need a bed of soil undisturbed by floods or logging operations in order to take root.

The hardy, prolific character of the redwood, combined with reseeding and replanting by man, means that there may now be more trees in the l5-county redwood region than when'logging began 150 years ago, the booklet states.

How many virgin coast redwood trees are now preserved permanently in state parks? Enough to form a $iant picket fence, on eight-foot centers, stretching from San Francisco to New York City. More than half the 107,000 acres of coast redwood state parks consist of old-growth giants, accounting for one-quarter of all the original superlative specimens, it is estimated.

Horvey

Appointed P. R. Director

H. D. "Ben" Harvey has been appointed director of public relations for the Jim Walter Corp. and its subsidiaries, according to James W. Walter, chairman.