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added during the year were- private lookouts' short wave i"-di. o"-ii ?ree fa'rms, devel6pmen.t.of hundreds of water it;i;;;d;ot"tt"t.

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million dollars' worth of iiilfii#'"f{q"iii"."t. The fiie protection cost varied from ;-;i;l; ii.ii pr, ""t. *ittt ati ave-rage for the entire 3t/a. ;il;; ;;;;;f 5i ".nti. Despite infat'ion, when.compa.red *iitt ttt" average annual proteition expenditure of less than iOi-oiiacre a"rlecadi a!o, it is easy-to s"f why.the proteitibn result in 1949 rvas so satisfactory' lt can be aoceo ;;'iil"f i; *". " bad year from both i slash hazard and weather standPoint.

Another ouistancling protection accomplishment on the tree farms in 1949 was a complete detec-tton sll.Ivey tor tne spruce budworm in cooperation with the Dubllc agencles' X;'i;i oersonnel working at logging engineeiing, logging or.in ;;ifi;ai;" plantt.- ln 1942 tfie foiestrv personnel "p Sf i.9 miilion icres of certifred tree farms numbered only J6' That was an average of one trainedforester qane.$tlg n'tp00 i"*r "r i* iit*t. In 1949 this had been efrectiv,eJY improved rvith one trained forester employed for every J-oi 00d u.te.. Compare this with one trained forester lor tne inonon.nl.nt of 'appr"iimately 65,000 acres of commercial i;;;;f -i;;;-ad-iiiistered bv ihe Federal .sovernment' ."Id it's easy to see why forestry is progresstng more raploly on private land.

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DDT succissfulll' combatted the budworm. -'-Tfr.-i.t"r oi"i .t.oi"ut ,"", 21,n3 acres. partial cutting o".urt"d- ,ln j,O+q acies. For the area clearcut more than half of it rvas cut over under the staggered setting sys!:ml ih. -"n"ging foresters of the tree- farms estimate that "d;;t. ;;"d-s.rurces were reserved for 20,556 acres of .the ;i#;l;; ii is pertinent to note that the less thart i3;Oii-;;s of mattire timber harvested is considerably less than one per ""nt ,rf the total of th-e tree farms' Th-is i;di.;i;; that iorest -"n"g.-.nt controls, on a-n area basis' ;i;'i;;ii;;i ul.rng than is"generallv realized' It should be rrointed out that nearly half the tree farm acreage ls fc.ubiea Uv mattrre timber' A signific-ant -p€rcentage ol tlrc Lalancd is occupied by young stands which rvill be avatl"Si."i* t ".*dt U"iore" o, by the completion of maturc ii-L"t iut"esting "p.titinnt.' N.o claim- is made that the i;;;i;;; g"n;t"'tty'ure on sustain-ed vield-at present' The itfii-ot" aiir of the management of each of them,.however' i;"1;;;;J ; 'alance hetii'een timber withdrawal and replacement.

Prelogging occurred on 1,218 acres.-in 1949' This practice nririi-miies breakage in both small and large trecs lrv removing them at different times'

Thinning was acconlplished-on 765 a-cres a-nd. yielde<l 2,25i,n0 Board feet plis 2,312 cords- One of the most .in"lh-."ttt revelations from the tree farm inspection u'as th; full utilization indicated by the small recoverable loltlme per acre renraining after clear-cutting-' Tree fartlr forestlrs estimate that tile average recoverable volume p^er ;;;; i;'9qg, a y; of softenirig markets, 'rvas onlv 2'1 ifroutr,n,f board feet plus 5.3 cords of cubic size tnltterial' C,rrr.,ru.. this rvith ihe estimate of 20 -y-ears .ag. ,f. :t I)ouslas fir rcgion average of 21 thousancl lloard teet p.ttts ^, i,?J","i'.,iin?ii o,r.,,,,rrri'.,f cuSic foot sizes lcft follo*'ing ;i;;;;ii";. fhoi t"t,..tantial progress in forest utilization ;;-;;d; lr,r*.itrt" by good markets and trade protnotiou for low-grade nraterial.

Relogging of slash and salvage of .mercltant:rble sn-ags from jcT l.,iir,.,s rec'r'ere6 a total ol 43,971,00C 5oitrd feet

^ri ZiJgO q61115; {)tr tree farms in 1949' That saved nearlv iiOO "i.". of tnature timber at 50,000 feet to the acre from fr"in* ftutu"sted that year. In other rvor.ds' over '50 milliorr ;;;;? ]""t oi tinrber ivas added to the inventor-r' 'tt these

;; f;;-.t through relogging practice' With stumpage rvorth an zrn'eragJ of $10.00 ller-thousand' the trce ,farms ;;;dit"J their timber accouni rvith a half-million dollars t v ialnasi"g timber "which didn't exist'"

",r'i1"'iiaultriut tree farms in lg4g planterl 10.591 acres at an average cost of $tQ.!!. They direct seeded 4'204 acres at an average cost of $5.36. A n6w practice in the fielcl of ^rtin.i"i -t.i".".totlon was vigororrsly,begun rvhe.n a fcu' tree farms baited cutover areas rvith adequate -seecl sourccs *fri.t had never regeneratecl satisfactorily owing to heavy .oa..rt p"pulatio". This method assists naturel seed sottrces ir rur.ii.lt and has generallv cost less than $1'00 per.acre- '"

Th;-;.;;bet-"f prSf essionally- trai ned f oresters employed ""-i".lioirial tree'farms in lg4g on a year-long basis '*,as 90. Other forestry employees including protection personnel numbered 154. These numbers do not lnclude torestry

Summarizing thc tree farm insp-ection rePort,. it.is !1teresting to ndic thq! less-that.9 l,ll.yeys after the toundi"c "iif,. Clemons Trcc l'arm in 194i, the some 3'5 million ;;?".;';i'D"i-sl"i ni t"gi,,n tree farms at the end of 1949 excmulified tiie practicc of forcst management- at an ex;;;;;;i; trieh prbfessional level. It is doubtful that 3nv ""n.i",i"fri"'or"l- "i t.rt"st lan6 .f such high average timbergr,,,i'ing capacity in thc cntire s'orld has been Dut under as 'o.rl rnanasement Iti""r-rfliiit a time. The sflendid body 3f frighty Eo-p"tent and enthusiastic foresters on tree i;;.'h;t spcehed the solttti<trt of the I'{or I prob.lem.of ior".ttu eveivwhere-forcst protection' It is true that the i;;."";iJ"J" rio. .""n probably better than average climatic ionditions, but this has been significantly countered by tne in.r""r" in industrial activities in forest areas and greater ;itlrii;-;; of forests for fishing, hunting and other recreitional pursuits.

Havint{ set Encmy Fire back on .his heels' .tree farms frnt" "iliual taken the next big step in applied.forest managemcnt, namely, cutting practices destgnecl to oDtaln r)romt)t narural t".Gl-i-ni. hrtificial refoiestation of idle i"rJ.' ir". "rrtlnued apa&. The increased utilization-opoo.iu,lities, a bonus oi tt." farrn inventories' have added ir,',n.,"n.utubly to the region's rvoodpile'

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