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of tree seedlings once was the only method of reforesting areas that had burned over or which failed to reforest naturally, the logging superintendent recalled. But now, he said, such areas may be seeded successfully from helicopters. Chemical spraying of brush before aerial seeding has also proved helpful in reforestation, he added. Ildstad described several innovations in logging equipment. Use of a portable spar tree in high lead logging, he said, reduced tree breakage, moving time, and hazards associated with tree topping. Other devices described included a special truck stake for hauling logs and a special tractor-mounted log unloading device.

Our greatest challenge today is to conserve the human resource, spoke Governor Arthur B. Langlie of Washington keynoting the safety session of the Pacific Logging Congress. Governor Langlie told the 1500 loggers and lumbermen attending the Congress that Government has a proper place in employer-employee relations but it should not be dictatorial. There should be laws to enforce, but government bureaus may get in a rut and lose contact with management and labor. The greatest responsibility for safe working practices lies in the cooperation of good performance.

Paul Bunyan's wood basket was described to the Pacific Logging Congress by Gray Evans, logging manager of the Hammond Lumber Co. at Trinidad, California. The huge steel basket, capable of holding enough timber to build a small house, was developed at the Hammond shops to facilitate the salvaging of logging leftovers. "Chunk basket," the Hammond loggers call it.

A mobile spar tree that can be moved quickly to yard scattered timber was described to the western loggers by W Wallace Baikie, Baikie Bros. Logging Co. Ltd., Campbell River, B.C.

Hauling logs on public highways by weight instead of by board foot scale is a practice that offers several advantages and may spread, predicted C. M. Bryden, Rose- burg Lumber Co., Roseburg, Oregon to the Congress. He cited these advantages for hauling by weight: rapidity of measurement; cheaper scaling costs and less lost time for trucks; minimizing of overload fines; allows bringing up loads to full allowable weight; it makes the relation of weight to truck construction and operation more important; it permits legalizing loads where a transfer from private to public highway is involved; it eliminates scaling arguments.

Roads hold the key to the timber supply of Western United States during the next l0 to 2O years, Henry J.