Treated Poles Solve Problem

One of the finest stretchs of unspoiled beach on the California coast presentt'd serious problems to the developcrs oI Place de Mer, until pressure-treated polt'-tvpe con,qtmction was considered.

Thc clifi sloped to the beach belon' at .15 to 15 degree angles. This, plus sandy soil. made conventional-type footing impossible. reports the builder, J. H. Hed' rick Co.

The site. nine miles south of Santa Cruz, is a planned-unit development of 4'1' row' houses for vacation purPoses. The homes, ranging 20 to 30 feet above the beach. would have required financially unfeasible foundations using anything other than pole-type construction. With conventional post-girder design, tying footings together on the 1:l slope would have been difficult; and either a large expanse of wall or many bracing cross members would he obviously unattractive from the beach frontage" developers felt.

Baxco-Chemonite pressure-treated pole-s, supplied by J. H. Baxter & Co., were chosen. The poles serve also as framing and roof support members.

Lots were designed 20'wide by 52'deep for the two-story homes; poles were placed on l0-foot centers.

Problems during construction centered on the sandy soil; maintaining vertical cuts for the poles when the sand dried was not practical. so metal shields were used to maintain the cuts. Each pole was placed on a l-ft. concrete pad 15 ft. deep, and the remainder of the cut filled with soil cement. Shields were removed for reuse.

The rowhouses were constructed in I0unit groups; poles were secured laterally with 4"x14" timber. and longitudinally with 3"x8". On the second-story, entrance level. poles were secured laterally with 6"x12" timbers to lJ' diameter concrete piers; these timbers supported the joists, 28-gauge corrugated steel, and 4" concrete (Continued' on Page 58) o Kifn Dried o Pqrriof Kitn Dried r Green

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Tree Fqrms Are 25 YeErs Old

The forest industry Tree Farm program, possibly the greatest sustained conservation effort ever conducted under private auspiceg will pass the quarter-century milestone this year.

It developed from the concept of growing timber as a renewable crop implied in the name "tree farm" first given to a producing industrial forest at Montesano, Wash., in 1941. Today there are nearly 30,000 Tree Farms with nearly 67 million acres certified throughout the nation.

Looking back to,{ay, the nation's private tree farmers are adding up what has been achieved in the past 25 years. Items: o The U.S. turned an historic corner in the relationship of growth to removal in the producing forests. The latest government survey shows that America's forests are now growing wood 6l per' cent faster than it is being harvested or lost to natural causes. Providing for tomorrow's growing timber needs remains a challenge, however. o Forest fires have been reduced to a small fraction of their former threat. In 1941, fires raged over 26.4 million acres of forests in the U.S. exclusive of Alaska. ln 1964 by contrast, fires burned Iess than 4.2 million acres, this time including losses in Alaska, o In 1941, the Society of American Foresters numbered something more than 2,000 professional foresters, nearly all of them government employees. Today the SAF counts some 17,00O members, about half of whom are employed by industrial tree farmers. o Trees were planted on 470,000 acres of burned or barren land in 1941. In 1965 there were nearly 1.3 million acreg reforested by man. Private lands accounted for more than 900,000 acres of the total. o In a nation increasingly concerned with enhancing natural beauty, the tree farmer is protecting the forest, keeping it healthy and in a vigorous growing condition.

. Foresters point out that the side benefrts of tree farming are better access for hunting, fishing and picnicking, better wildli{e habitat, better watershed conditions and a continuing source of tax revenue for the community.

Take a trip into a tlpical Tree Farm and the impressions you collect add up to a picture of protection and growth. The road system itself, poking fingers of access into all sections of the property, is a basic element of the tree farmer's protection and develop' ment plan. It permits him to do forestry work anywhere, speed firefighters to any part of the forest and, as a side benefit to visitors, open the land to greater recreation potential.

The visitor is likely to see areas where diseased or insect-ridden trees have been removed, overcrowded stands thinned to give the best trees more growing room, barren land reforested and whitened snags felled in burned-over areas to remove fire hazards.

The tree farmer has been called a practicing conservationist. What he does is beine called "creative conservation."

Northwest Expqnsion by Simpson

will make pioneer door plant operaunder a three-year development pro-

C. Henry Bacon, Jr., the president of Simpson, said they will invest more than $l million in a new flush door plant in McCleary, W'ash., this year and another $2 million by 1968 in modernization of stile and rail door plants. The original McCleary door operations, built in l9ll, have been operated by Simpson since 1942.

Bacon said the flush door plant, scheduled to open in early 1967, will increase McCleary production from 1,800 units to 5,000 daily. The Simpson stile and rail operations there are among the nation's largest.

Boise Coscode VP Resigns

Robert Faegre has resigaed as a vice president of Boise Cascade. He also resigaed from two related positions within the company, general manager of the international division and president of a subsidiary, Ontario.Minnesota Pulp & Paper Ltd.

He had been president and chief executive officef of Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. until last year when it was acquired by Boise Cascade.

His reason for leaving was presented in a statement that said the move was made "because of a diversence of views in the organizational arrangements of the "ornpa"ry', international operations.t'

He will continue as a director of Boise Cascade and Ontario & Minnesota Pulp & Paper.

Westerners Join NAWTA

National-American Wholesale Lumber Association has increased its total membership to a three year record high of 35I member firms, according to NAWLA's J. J. Mulrooney.

Nine new members were announced by NAWLA during the past twelve months, a net gain of 16 members. The new western members are Kennedy-Johnsen Lumber, Inc., Seattle, and Lambert-Voegtly Lumber Company, Medford, Oregon.

New associate members in the West are Pacific Logging Company Ltd., Passmore, B.C.; Medford Corporation, Medford, Oregon; and McGrew Bros. Sawmill, Inc., Ashland, Oregon.

Steel Eyes Building Morket

The full weight of United States Steel's research and marketing resources is being focused on products used in construction of homes and light commercial structures with the formation of a Residential Tech Center.

"For tlte first tirne, a basic steel firm has a research facility specifically designed to identify, analyze and solve significant problems facing the building industry," Bennett S. Chapple, Jr., of U.S.S. said.

"Our determination to discover builders' problems through our marketing efiorts will be backed up by the full facilities of the Tech Center, where we can call on the vast research resources available."

Tangible results of work carried out at the U. S. Steel research facility are embodied in a fully-instrumented, two-story headquarters structure which incorporates a number of the innovations in- home building products which have emerged from the laboratories devoted to residential construction component development.

Included in the building are such products as structural wall panel systems, both interior and exterior, a thermal-acoustic ceiling suspended on steel runners, steel doors, and new approaches to structure support systems.

Forest Lqb's Design House

The Forest Products Laboratory has desisned a new housebrlding -system using wood products which"it terms 'oradically difierent."

lhe house is assembled from six components comprising walls, partitions and roof. All components have been built and tested at the lab, and plans are in progress to erect a full-scale house.

Details of the system and results of evaluation tests are summarized in U.S. Forest Service Research Paper FPL-4?, available from the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisc.