oFRED C. HOTMES LUMBER COMPANY o

Specializing in Mixed Shipmenfs of Douglos Fir & Redwood

Production & Home Ofice: Southern Calilornia Ofice: Fred

FORCE

P. O. Box 987 fWX: Fort Brogg 49

Phone:

4-37OO

Who's Been Ecting the Redwoods?

No sign of "Big Foot," the mythical, mysterious, mischievous molester of trees, logs and logging camps, has turned up in an annual survey of bear damage in the l{edwood Region. But bears, which show a 2-to-1 preference for young redwoods over Douglas fir, are of more serious concern to foresters than is "Big Foot," a half-man, halfbeast creature reported to have caused considerable collsternation and damage at several Redwood Region logging shows during the past summer.

A study just released by the California Redwood Association reports the extent of damage to young growth on cutover redwood lands during 1957. The rate of bear damage to young growth stands in the Redwood Region increased sliglrtly over that reported in 1956. A total ol 0.16/o of. all conifers on the areas sampled were killed or damaged by bears during 1957. The ratio of killed trees to total trees attacked was 20.5/o, compared to 29/o for 1956, according to the study, which was made by CRA and Georgia-Pacific foresters.

The study was first undertaken in 1952. A bear trapping program was started in 1954 to limit bear depredation to an economically tolerable level required for sustained-yield forest manag'ement. Since then, the study shows bear depredation in the survey area has decreased from the high of 65,000 trees killed or damaged in 1953, to about 10,000 trees in 1957.

Add Two on Wood Promotion

Washington, D.C.-Two staff additions to the public relations department of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association are Donald L. Benson, who has been named manager of NLMA's Wood Information Center, and Glen W. Simon, former assistant secretary of the Middle Atlantic Lumbermen's Association in Philadelphia, who has been appointed merchandising and promotion manager.