August I, 1938
THE CALIFORNTA LUMBER MERCHANT
Rcdwood Logging Conference Postponed Originally scheduled during the month of July, the 1938 Redwood Logging Conference has been postponed indefinitely. Unavoidable delays in setting the date brought the industry into the annual fire season, at a time when the attention of those who would have attended the conference would be required in the woods in actual protective work. The conference was first delayed because of the severe injury suffered early in June by Professor Emanuel Fritz of the University of California school of forestry, who originated the plan and was to have been in charge of the program. Professor Fritz is now recovering from a double fracture of the right ankle but will be disabled for the entire summer. Lumber companies in the redwood region have advanced far in conservation and fire control policies in the past five years. Through the annual logging conferences, superintendents, foremen and key workers are brought into close touch with forestry problems. Large expenditures have been made by the companies for fire fighting apparatus and all burning of slash areas is conducted now in cooperation with the state division of forestry. Fire control plans will be continued this season as set up in 1937 on a cooperative basis between the California Redwood Association and State Forester M. B. Pratt.
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Forest Conservation Committee Maps Program Washington, July 22,-Nine members of the Forest Conservation Committee of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association met in Chicago, July 19 and 2O to consider the concurrent resolution adopted by the 75th Congress appointing a Congressional Joint Forestry Committee to study the Forestry problem. Meeting with the Committee members and the secretary-managers of six regional associations were James G. McNary, N.L.M.A. President; Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager N.L.M.A.; I. N. Tate, Prisident, American Forest Products Industries; Clyde Martin, Forester, Western Pine Association; J. B. Woods, N.L.M.A. Forester and Committee Secretary. The Committee said the lumber industry has a definite, and it believes entirely logical and workable, national forestry program to recommend to the Congressional Joint Committee. This program rests upon the evident fact that the United States is not threatened by timber famine, but rather with an increasing timber surplus. The Forestry problem, said the Committee, should be regarded as one of land use, and a problem which is growing steadily as yearly forest growth increases.. It demands the same degree of public concern as the agricultural problem. Its solution lies in providing markets to absorb the annual increment of our living forests, so that there may be stable employment in woods and mill, steady contributions to local and national prosperity, and confidence in forest ownership and management as sound enterprise. The Committee declared it was well aware that forest protection in some sections has lagged because people do not yet realize that forests must be protected. It also stated that it was alvare there are ignorant and unscrupulous forest operators who persist in destructive forest practices. However, it has mapped out a workable program for correcting these evils and will welcome the opportunity to appear before the Joint Committee and present facts affecting all forest regions in the country. "The Committee hopes and expects," said Mr. McNary, "to cooperate with public agencies and other interested groups in making facts of the forestry problem clear to the Congressional Joint Committee and give it the basic elements for a sound legislative program that can be submitted to the next Congress."
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