\(/cstern Timber Reported Growing Rapidly

PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 1l-Two major developments in western forestry, one good and the other potentially serious, were reported to the Western Pine association's forest conservation committee, meeting here today as a part of a week-long series of lumber conferences.

The group heard Ernest L. Kolbe, association chie'f forester, report that timber of all species throughout the west is growing at a rate unprecedented in forestry history. The statement helped counterbalance a report the day before by N. S. Rogers, Oregon state forester, that the dread spruce bud-worm, which already has hit an estimated 1,000,000 acres of timberland near Heppner in eastern Oregon, has spread for the first time west of the Cascades.

Kolbe, commenting on reports received from silviculturists stationed throughout the west, said that even virgin timber is showing a net growth never before known, due partly to a wet cycle starting in 1940. The report covered second growth as well as old stands.

The association forester said that enlightened management policies on the part of western timber owners had helped considerably in the accelerated growth rate.

Rogers told members of the association's Oregon state forest practice committee that the latest outbreak of the spruce bud-worm has occurred in about 400 acres of timber north of Springfield in the Willamette valley 100 miles south of Portland.

About 80 per cent of the infested area in eastern Oregon is federal land and timbermen said that a huge aerial spraying program may be necessary. Last year a tussock moth infestation in north Idaho, covering 400,000 acres, was completely wiped out by aerial spraying with DDT. The North Idaho project is to date the largest single spraying job ever attempted.

The conservation committee accepted applications for nine new Tree Farms totaling 36,342 acres, bringing the association's total to 145 farms covering 2,613,865 acres.

A resolution was approved commending the Oregon State board of forestry for control work against the spruce budworm and urging the board to "press the battle to a finish."

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