ASSOCIAIED REDWOOD TIIITIS

P. O. Box 598 Arcoto, Californiq

BillBrouning

TWX: ARG43

Phone: VAndyke 2-2417

97 Boy 'Lumbermen' Atfend The 6th Annuol R'RJIC

From Relioble lrtills REDWOOD, FIR ond PINE

To the hundreds of boys enrolled in high school forestry classes in the Redwood Region, one of the year's mosi coveted awards is an invitation to attend the Junior Log- ging Conference, sponsored by the Redwood Region Coiservation Council. The 6th annual JLC was helil at Men- i.ophy docino Woodlands this Spring wlth 97 boys in attendance. A "faculty" of over 50 leaders from private industry and public agencies, as well as the state's'educational institutions, attended the Conference to lecture on wood and forest techniques, and to demonstrate everything from starting a

ttA Piece of Tomorrowtt

Two of the richest natural resources of our region are our growing trees and our growing youngsters. Whatever plans we may have for the future of our forests hinge on how well the high school students of today, the worker and voter of tomorrow, understand our forest wealth as we see it.It $'ill one day be all theirs to manage.

This conference is the practical answer to the problems of educating the men who will tomorrow work in the forests of our region, with a stake in our economy. What the Junior Logging Conference teaches these students about forest management, safety, wiseuse conservation and general work attitudes cannot be learned from textbooks or in a classroom.

Senior Sponsors who send their $10.00 contributions to the Redwood Region Conservation Council, Rosenberg building, Santa Rosa, Calif., will make a real purchase. They will btry a piece of tomorrow.

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new crop to machine maintenance. Field trips and in-camp lectures also were featured, with emphasis being placed on conservation aspects of proper felling procedures and forest-fire preventibn and suppression. Chairman of the 1958 JLC was Bernard J. Vaughn, director of industrial and public relations for the Union Lumber Co. at Fort BraggTeams from schools with organized forestry, logging and lumbering classes vied for a chromed felling axe mounted on a curly redwood board which was established last year as a perpetual trophy for excellence.

Most of the students at this three-day session will go directly from high school into the labor force, in the woods, the mills and the retail yards. Wherever each finds his particular niche, he will be an informed and alert member of the organization he serves, with a good background in the nature of his product, its manufacture and use.