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A decade of progress in California's north coast forest region was highlighted for 260 members and guests attending the annual winter meeting of the Northern California Section, Society of American Foresters, in San Francisco December 5. 1953.

Morning sessions included three topics: The forest resource, forest practiies, and forest protection in the region. The afternoon featured reports on new products and manufacturing methods, the outlook for the future, and a business meeting. After cocktails, 185 members, guests, and their ladies attended a banquet at which Jesse W. Tapp, executive vice president of Bank of America, spoke on business prospects for the Pacific Coast.

North Coast timber resources were described by Arnold F. Wallen. He estimated current saw-timber volume as 119 billion board feet, and reported that more than 1,200 sawmill or woods operators are depend'ent on the forest.

Gray Evans, Hammond Lumber Co., reported on new developments in the lO0-year-old redwood logging industry; and Larry Marshall, Dolly Varden Lumber Co., described current practices in Douglas-fir operations, only 10 years old but already harvesting more timber than the redwood operators. Both speakers cited improved cutting practices and expressed some concern over mounting slash-disposal problems. Evans declared that bears stripping bark from young trees seriously threaten much of Hurnboldt County's cutover redwood stands.

Three men outlined progress in protecting the forest from fire. David S. Way, Redwood Region Conservation Council, outlined the educational program which has awakened the public to need for fire prevention. Harvey E. Zink, U. S. Forest Service, told how public agencies and forest industries are cooperating to plan fire detection and control measures. Charles W. Fairbank, California Division of Forestry, described fire control programs and said foresters now must convince land owners that good forestry is economically sound.

New redwood products and manufacturing methods were described by Willard E. Pratt, California Redwood Association, who said that much of the industry's progress had come not from spectacular discoveries, but from pooling and publishing information developed by operating personnel under guidance of industry-wide committees.

Among new developments in Douglas-fir manufacture repotred by Ralph G. DeMoisy, M&M Woodworking Co., were a portable veneer mill operating near the timber, and mills specializing in production of studs. He said that two of the major needs in the North Coast Region are an outlet for fiber and more portable breakdown plants near the timber.

At the business meeting, members passed resolutions calling for full staffing of the University of California's new forest products laboratory, and for addition of a forest entomologist and a forest pathologist to the University staff. John Zivnuska, chairman of the Section's standing committee on forest research, reported committee action in the fields of forest soils, aerial photography, forest regeneration, and experimental and demonst ration f orests.

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