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Vaux, dean of the lJniversity of California forestry school, told the Pacific Logging Congress on the subject, "Natural Resource Roads-Roots of Western Development." Dean Vaux said California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho have a backlog of about 850 billion board feet of old-growth timber, "much of which is untapped by roads." Dean Vaux said the rising cost of hauling timber on public roads poses a problem that is fundamental to the economy of the west. Costs of hauling logs has risen 65/o in the past 20 years.

Gordon A. NIacGregor, president of MacGregor Triangle Co., Boise, Idaho, told Pacific Logging Congress members that loggers I'ould pay an average of fifty cents a thousand feet extra taxes on tires, gas, inner tubes, recapping, ton tax for the new federal-state highway program tvhether they hauled on private or public roads. He urged them to

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work to raise allorvable pavement loads from 32,000 to 40,000 pr-runds tandem axle loading.

Much federal timber now considered inoperable because of mountainous terrain and not included in allorvable cut figures mav soon be available for cutting, Pacific,Logging Congress visitors were told by E. E. Matson, forest service utilization expert from Portland, Oregon. Experiments with the Wyssen skyline machine have been carried qn at Twisp, Washington, on an experimental forest servicel,sale for the past two years. I

By continuing to use good practices in woods operatitns, loggers can help maintain and create desirable stream donditions for the production of trout and salmon, Alfred R. Morgan, aquatic biologist for the Oregon Fish Commission, told the Pacific Logging Congress.