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STOCKS ON HAND AT orincipal reason for the excellent protection record is the iompiete awareness by the forest ihdustries of the powder keg ir, which they opirate during the dry season and their own well organiied 6re protection in cooperation with the state forestry departments and private fire associations.

Ten more companies in the region employed foresters to manage their'properties in 1f50. Thire'are now 80 companie-s employing-foresters as tree growers. The total number of forestcrs cmployed as forest managers, forest products technicians, cxecutives, logging engineers and in production now totals 650. Experienced foresters were in short supply during the year.

Nature is still the industrv's chief forester, but trec planting occurred on 13,045 aires of private land in 1950. This is the highest year on record. Most of the trecs camc from the induitry's nursery at Nisqually, Washington. On top of the record planting, an additional 4,071 acres were diiect seeded, or a lotal of.17,116 acres artificially reforested. Despite record crops in several of the region's nttrseries, the demand for planting stock exceeded the supply. In thc fall of 1950 thc first trees grown from certified seed at the induslry's nurscry u,ere shipped. The industry started its certified seed program in 1949 when the companies contractirrg for stock from the industry's nursery began collecting their ou'n seed. At the time this was announcetl as a nr'ilestone in American forestry, and it is continuing.

One couldn't visit private land anyrvhere in the Douglas fir region between the spring and fall of 1950 without running into forcstcrs examining lands for-acquisition, inventorying growing stock, planning artificial reforestation, strrdying -fire llrotection problems, .laying. out slash. burning plans, nrarkirrg immatttre stands for thinning, shaping tuti tice farms, or -just studying how a specific problem in niturr,l reforcstation, rvood utilization or forest protection coulrl lre solved.

Tabulating the money spent for direct forest fire protec- tion, artificial reforestation, inventories and surveys, acquisition of cutover land and immature timber, utilization studies, insect and disease detection and control, rodent baiting, aerial photography and mapping, establishing growth and yield plots, forest engnieering to lay out efficient harvesting systems, soil studies and research, and salaries and uage.s of forestry personnel, it is conservatively estimated that the Douglas fir industry spent nearly l5 million dollar.: in 1950. This is more than one per cent of the total value of forest products produced in the region that year.

Those are the highlights of the industry's busiest forestry year. l'ollowing are some of the details.

The Executive Board certified I I new tree farms in 1950 an,d cancelled 6 for non-compliance with the landowner's' pledges. The net increase in tree.farms was 4O7,018 acres, or a 12.4 per cent increase over 1949. Certified tree farms at the end of 1950 totalled 3,677,710 acres or 33 per cent of the industrial forest land of the region.

In 1950 the staff made the most intensive tree farm inspection ever made. It required 4 man-months and an individual report was tabulated on each of the 55 industrial tree farms which had been certificd to the end of 1948. The data were for the calendar vear 1949. This is the first full opportunity the industry has had to appraise tree farm pertormance,

The follorving data show what these 55 tree farms acconrplished in 1949. Area burned over front all causes was 2,250 acres, or 0.07 per cent of the acreage protected. This is less than one-third of the maximum allowable burn under acceptable protection standards. Counting only those snags felled f.or hazard reduction, there were 152,626 of. them felled at an average cost of $1.33. During the year 127 miles of fire protection roads rvere constructed at an average cost of $1328. The total road mileage used exclusively for forest protection on these tree farms is estirnated at 10,000 miles. Other ne\\' protection facilities