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Changing demands upon California wildlands were the chief concern of a two-dav conference. Mav 25-26. at the University of California iahoe Alumni Center.

Under sponsorship of the University's Wildland Research Center, the conference covered research and land management problems in the Sierra Country from 4,000 feet up reported Conference Chairman James P. Gilligan.

Forest industry representatives, researchers and teachers in forestry and related fields, and federal, state and municipal officials concerned with wildland management u,'ere on the program.

i\ctivities began at 9 a.m. Friday, May 25, though registration at the Tahoe Alumni Center opened Thursday evening. The first scheduled talk, at 9:15 a.m., was on The University and \Arildland Research, by Henry J. Vaux, clean of the School of Forestry, Berkeley. and director of the statlwide Wildland Research Center.

The remainder of the morning covered the Upper Sierra, with four talks : Geology and Soils, by Gordon L. Huntington, associate specialist in soils and plant nutrition at Davis; Climate and Vegetation, Edward C. Stone, associate professor of Forestry, Berkeley; Wildlife, William Nf. Longhurst, asso- liate sp_ecialist in zoology, UC Hopland Field Station; and Land Ownership and Use, Paul Casamaior, lecturer in forestry, Berkeley.

The Friday afternoon program, with Dean Vaux presiding covered interrelations between rvood production and other forest uses: Water Supply discussed by Allan J. West, officer in charge, Central Sierra Sno'iv Laboratory, U. S. Landscape Architecture, Berkeley; Forest Protection from Fire, Keith R Arnold, director of the Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. and Prottection from Insects, Ronald W. Stark, associate professor of entomology, Berkeley; Deer Population, Dietrich W. \{uelder, professor of forestry, Berkeley, and Ha"rvey M. Russo, game managernent supervisor, Region 2, California Fish and Game Department ; Livestock Grazing, Mialter H. Johnson, Placer county director, UC Agricultural Extension Service, and E. Joseph \Voolfolk, chief Division of Range \{anagement Research U.S. Forest Service.

Deane Seeger, executive director of the Lake Tahoe Area Council, addressed the Friday dir.rner meeting on Values and Vexatiorrs in the Lake Tahoe Region.

Saturday morning's program, under chairmanship of Mildred E. Mathias, associate professor of botany at UCLA, opened with the Relation Between \Arood Production and Recreation Use.

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Other morning topics were Land Allocation Concepts and Procedures for Wilderness Areas, by Richard G. Prasil, regional research biologist, National Park Service, and Lloyd A. Rickel, assistant regional forester, U. S. Forest Sen'ice; I\{anagement to Perpetuate Wilderness Values, Arnold P. Snyder, IIigh Sierra district Ranger, Sierra National Forest, and Carl W. Sharsmith, professor of botany, San Jose State College; and Recreation and Water Runoff and Storage Areas, Clyde lI. Spencer, Sacramento Municipal Utility District.

The Satur<1ay afternoon program co'nsisted of a talk on Recreation and Fishery Resouices, by Robert Butler, California Fish and Game Department, Sacramento, and a conference summary, closing at 3:15.

Douglas-fir timber from the rainy rvest side of the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest brings almost twice the price of Douglas-fir grown on the drier east side of the mountains, the lJ. S. Forest Service reports. During the first quarter of fiscal year 1962, average prices per thousand board feet of National Forest Douglas-fir were $28.23 on the rvest side and $14.40 on the east side.