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tries on five continents participated in the Fifth World Forestry Congress tour of the Redwood Region, August 2l-22. The Congress converled in Seattle August 29. ^Ihe Pacific Coast pre-convention tour began in Los Angeles and terminated in Seattle.
Highlights of the tour of redwood industry facilities were a visit to the Scotia mills of The Pacific Lumber Company, a logger's lunch at Georgia-Pacific Corporation's Big Lagoon cookhouse, and a tree felling and logging demonstration on tree farm lands near Klamath. Tour leaders on redwood operations lvere Ted Carlson and Alden Ball for The Pacific Lumber Companv at Scotia. Iohn Miles and John Yingst at Klamath, ind"Fred Landenberger, California Redwood Association forester coordinator, Eureka.
The tour group entered the redwoods from San Francisco on August 21, stopping at Richardson Grove and Humboldt Redwoods State Parks enroute. Tl-re mill tour at Scotia was conducted by The Pacific Lumber Company on
Monday, August 22, at 8:00 a.m. Here the group viewed the large integrated redwood mill with hydraulic debarker, sawmill, remanufacturing plant, glued products plant, and bark utilization plant.
A healthy logger's lunch prepared by company chef Tony Gabriel was planned for the delegates at GeorgiaPacific Corporation's Big Lagoon cookhouse at noon August 22.
Forestry delegates to the World Congress arrived at logging operations on Hunter Creek near Klamath at 2:00 p.m., and were conducted through forest areas. Following the felling of a giant redwood, the foresters observed a complete redwood logging operation from log bucking to skidding to loading trucks for the trip to the mill. After the visit to the logging operation, they proceeded to Crescent City through the Redwood Experimental Forest (near Klamath) administered by the U. S. Forest Service in cooperation with Simpson Redwood Company.