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IUMBER CO. OISEI| .CARPEIITER Ulrolenk

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Douglas Firr Redwood and Pine

9935 Santa Monlca Boulevard

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. BRadshaw 2-6651 paign, which was his brain-child, long a-borning. In 1940 it rvas set going under the direction of Stewart H. Holbrook, with a name that had first been used in the 1925 form of Keep Vermont Green and Keep Minnesota Green. are lost to insects of successful con-

Next year a project of applying intensive forestry practices to a Weyerhaeuser Timber Company property in Grays Harbor County was given as a name the colonel's old attention-getting term, "tree farm." So with "Clemons Tree Farm," a second national industrial forestry campaign hit the road.

\\rith all his work for lumber in Worlcl \\rar II, Greeley four-rd time to take a leading part in the organization of American Forest Products Industries, Inc., to extend the "Keep Green" and "Tree Farm" patterns of private forest conservation promotion to forests North, East an<l South.

The author of many articles, William B. Greeley's name is also on the covers of a Doubleday book, "Forests and Men" (1951), and "Forest Policy," a McGrarv-Hill textbook of 1954.

Norv there is a Greeley Tree Farm, on Gamble Bay, of Puget Sound. More and more of his time u'as spent there in recent years, rvriting, thinning his young stands of trees, gardening and giving time to farm forestry lvork in Kitsap County. He remained a vice-president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association to the last. Industrial forestrv has lost its pioneer leader.

An average of 2 billion bd. ft. of timber annually in Washington and Oregon in spite trol over several epidemics in recent years.

Herb Carpenter

Eurekq Boy Wins Poster Contest

The first annual grand anard for fire prevention posters rvas made to Dick Hanley of Eureka lJnion Fligh School by the \Vestern Keep Green Committee meeting at l)ortland Decemller 7. Entered in the contest u'ere 50 Posters representing regional rvinners.

of the RRCC, acceptecl the trophy (right, above).

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