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The problem of applied forestry that centers on the stump in any part of the country is first of all that of producing and protecting nerv tree grorvth around each stump of the log harvest. The solution commonly begins with the logging plan. Trees are reserved from cutting to work as seed sources for the nerv forest.

In the Douglas fir region forestry commonly dictates "patch logging," rvhich rvill clear one area and leave solid blocks or strips of seed trees standing for years. In pine. regions specific types of trees are selected for the logging' leaving all the tr'ees that orvn the ability to grolv rvood for many more years.

The Common Ground. .

The planting of seedling forest trees among the stumps by hand or b-v the amazing nel\' tree-planting machines is too costly to be employed except u'here the chances for natural reforestation are poor.

For decades the annual number of United States forest fires ran close to 200,0m, and each year from 25,000,000 to 5O,00O,00O acres \\'ere burned. By far the greater part of this acreage rvas farm land rvhich farmers fired year after vear to "bring on the grass."

This ruinous tradition of land use dies hard. Then on land that has been burned again and again the new forest must be planted by hand or machine. There are big black holes of old burns in the great forests of the \Vest.

I\{ethods of sorving tree seeds by helicopter are being tried out there by the forest industries to make idle land productive. Fire remains the enormous risk that Private enterprise must face in the forests, and face it through as many as 80 fire seasons in the grorving of a nelv industrial forest from the stumps of the old.

All forest oNners-government, industry and farm-6nd common ground and see eye to eye on the forest fire problem.

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