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Louis Servente, general manager, Servente Hardwood Company, San Francisco, recently made a business trip to Reno, Nevada.

Lance Block, is now a salesman for Lumber Terminal Co., Inc., San Francisco, covering the San Francisco Bay area. He was formerly yard superintendent, and has been with the company for 10 years.

Larry Watson, buYer for in Eugene, Oregon, recentlY business for the company.

Morton, Eureka, Inc., Oakland, California, on

Ed La Franchi, Pacific Forest Products, Inc', Oakland, spent the first rveek in February in Los Angeles, where he .ill.d on the trade with the company's Southern California representative, Jim Kirby. He made the trip both ways by air.

Paramino Lumber Company, San Francisco' announces the appointment of Orville H. Hill, formerly with the Jones Lumter Corporation, Portland, as manager of their northern office, 1014 Wilcox Building, Portland 4, Oregon'

Dave Davis, manager of the fir department of Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, spent a few days in Portland and Eugene, around the middle of February' He traveled both ways bY Plane.

Philip J. McCoy, Western Pine Francisco, vacationed in Southern weeks in February.

Supply Company, San California the first two

Larue Woodson, Wheeler Osgood Company, San Francisco, spent a fer,v days in Los Angeles on business around the middle of last month. He was accompanied by his wife.

Norman Cruver, president of Wheeler Osgood Company, Tacoma, and his q'ife, recently returned from a vacation trip to Arizona.

John Whitehouse, Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco, is back from a business trip to Chicago, where he attended the National Home Builders Convention, February 23 to 26'

S. B. Ferrell, general sales manager, Pope & Talbot, Inc', Lumber Division, Portland, recently visited the company's ofifices at Los Angeles, San Francisco, Nerv York, and San Tuan. Puerto Rico. He traveled by airplane'

Wm. L. (Bill) Frese is now with James L' Hall, wholesale lumber dealer, San Francisco. He is a son of Otto Frese, San Francisco wholesale lumberinan' He was a First Lieutenant in the Army Air Force during the war' and was shot down over Europe on his 50th mission'

Forest Chief Urgas Watershed Protection

San Francisco, February 4- California's critical water situation demonstrates the necessity of intensified watershed management as recommended by Chief Lyle F. Watts of the U.S. Forest Service in his 1947 annual report, just received at Forest Service regional headquarters here.

, Mr. Watts said that the kind and degree of protection and care given these watersheds have Tar-reaching influences on the nation's stream-flow and water resources. Generally the lands to which he referred are forest and wild areas at higher elevations and the source of all our major rivers.

He went on.to say that over much of the highland watershed area, adequate fire protection, range management good enough to maintain forage cover, and forest practices such as maintain good forest growth, would serve to protect the watersheds. On the other hand, he said there are certain critical areas where more specialized treatment is needed, and a considerable area where treeplanting or reseeding to grasses is necessary to restore the vegetative cover.

Mr. Watts stated that more upstream flood-control surveys under the Flood Control Act of 1936 are needed, with prompt "follow-up" on recommendations for corrective action, than is'now being done. This includes such measures as reforestation, revegetation, changes in land uses, upstream engineering and intensified fire control. Greatly curtailed during the war, work has since been resumed on a number of projects, and Congress has appropriated funds for additional surveys on several river drainages.

As to the timber situation, the chief forester finds, as he did last year, that saw timber is being takeri from the forests Il times as fast as it is being replaced by growth; that the downward trend of the forest resource has yet to be reversed. He notes the tight newsprint situation, foresees further increase in our pulp and paper requirements, already highest among nations, and sees in the commercial timber of Southeast Alaska, mostly in the Tongass National Forest, an opportunity to greatly increase our supply. The Forest Service proposes to manage this timberland primarily for production of pulp timber on a sustained yield basis, but says that "recent proposals to throw open the national forests of Alaska to homesteading may be a deterrent to early development of a paper industry." Bids have been asked on the sale of two large tracts