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(Continued lrom Page 26) itself in this respect, and the methods developed were enacted into law in Oregon in 1941 and in Washington in t945.

Today every acre of private land logged in the two states must have its tim,ber harvested in a manner guaranteeing that the area will be reclothed with a second crop of commercial species. Where there has been poor judgment in the planning of logging or hard luck in fire protection, the Tree Farm areas which fail to restock must be reforested artificially. fn practice this applies to less than 10 per cent of the total area. It is simply a matter of good business, as no private timber grower can afford to cairy lands which are not producing wood.

Tax delinquent cut-over lands, the perennial bad boy of the pioneer era in every forest region, have practically ceased to exist in this part of the world, simply because this type of land has now come into its own as the growin.g space for supplies of industrial wood.

The shot in the arm which the expanding market for forest materials has given Douglas fir forestry is momentous. Who would have dared to predict ten years ago that today several hundred million board feet of slash fire fuel and forest floor debris would be harvested annually from cut-over areas logged in the previous four or five years to satisfy the demand of saws, digesters and lathes for a variety of forest commodities? Even more amazing is the fact that such low grade sarvmill leftovers as slabs, edgings and trim are furnishing high grade rau' material for defibration processes turning out hard and soft boards.

Even more significant is the trend toward integrated forest utilization which is becoming more and more pronounced in the Pacific Northwest. Highly integrated centers of forest manufacturing exist today in the SheltonMcCleary, Everett and Longview areas in Washington, and in the St. Helens and Portland areas in Oregon. Similar centers are planned or developing in the Eugene-Springfield and Coos Bay areas of Oregon. Tacoma, incidentally, has changed its designation {rom "The Lumber Capitol of the World" to "The Forest Products Capitol of the World." Products Capitol of the World."

Integrated forest utilization means, of course, the converting of each class of forest raw material into the highest value product it will make. The effect of this more complete utilization on industrial timber-growing is clear. The ,better the uses to which wood can be put, the more that will be required, and the better the forest management that will be economically possible.

Attention is being focused more and more sharply on the increasing number of professionally trained foresters who are taking their places in the forest industries as an integral part of the business.

A decade ago there were no more than a dozen or so private foresters in the entire Douglas fir region. Today there are more than 200 in addition to 44 consulting forestry firms employing more than 75 foresters. These totals do not include approximately 300 trained foresters employed by the industry as harvesters of the timber crop or as technicians in forest products manufacturing. To these men must go much of the 'credit for spearheading private forestry progress.

It is worth remarking that during the past decade in the Douglas fir region between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000 were spent for fire protection alone. To a large extent the lands being protected rvere the lands which will be furnishing the nation's forest products ?5 and 5O and even 100 years from today. It means that private forestry has been permanently established in the Pacific Northwest. ft means we're in business not for just today and tomorrow, but for the long pull.

Filteen Per Cent ol America'sTimber Supply Loccrted on Fqrnrs

Fifteen per 'cent of America's timber supply is located on farms. Individual owners of these small forest tracts are at a disadvantage in selling a few sawlogs or a hundred or so feet of piling. fn some places this is helped by a cooperative, or a marketing association.

In one instance 80 to 90 woodlot owners organized a cooperative, hired a logger-manager and got some light equipment. The logger-manager could take an order for 1,500 cords of pulpwood and eight carloads of piling and get the right price for it. With his advice, the material was cut to standard and there was little loss from cull.

The cooperative's equipment handled the heavier items, such as saw logs. For several years this system has paid the members stumpage and wages and distributed a substantial profi t besides.

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