ir th,e PATT E R N ol molprn SELECTIVE IOGGING

At th" Oakridge, Oregon, operations of Pope & Talbot, Inc., about 150 miles southeast of Portland, there is followed a pattern carefully planned by competent foresters covering rate, meth' ods and sequence of cutting, reproduction and planting, inrect and disease control, fire reduction, road systems and standards of utilization.

Under the saggered unit-area cutting system tim' ber is removed from suitable areasr averaging about 80 acres per unit, leaving adjacent timber standing. "Leave strips" separate each cutting area. These leave strips are generally similar in size to the adja' cent unit harvested. After a period of perhaps 20 years some of the original leave strips will be logged.

Logging is carried out on both company'ormed and forest service lands without differentiation of systems for either type of ownership. In other words, the company is harvesting its own timber on the same standards as the government's.

The cutting rotation is planned on the basis of from 80 to 100 years. There will always be forests providing timber for the people of America.

I. E. MABTIN Editor trnd Mcncger