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IIIVITATI0NAL I0URNAMENI chairman Etmer Lewis of Brooks-Dodge beams his approval as Lila Schiffner and Reola Jamison tote up the scores. (2) Cal-pacific's Ken Bowes and Nikkel Lumber's Bob Bonner. (3) Cal-lda veep George Duff and Walt Stuermer watch the action. George is chairman of another big tournev, the annual Sierra View bash held August 27. (4) Bob Glatt and Del Pugh. (5) North Vallel's paul phelos (center) flanked by George Martin and Chuck Lewis of Coastal Wholesale Lumber. (6) Dewitt Smith of Bear River holds onto his cash, but checks his card with Reola Jamison. 0) Ken Bowes, Bill Toms. Jack Ruble of Eugene, and Nevada paciiic's Wes peters.

(8) The Reno boys got their lick in too. Here we have Russ Peterson, Tony Denio and Harris Vaughn who preferred the dice of their native land to gin rummy.

Bob McKeon, Leonard Chapdelaine, Dick Kornman and Billy Main. (10) Standing: Ward Dobbins of Blue Canyon Lumber and John d1

UKIAH SAWMITL

Old Growth Redwood

Green Uppers

Green Boards &Dimension

PHIT(l STUIlMILL

DOUGLAS FIR STUDS

Precision Trimmed

Anti-Stain Treated

End Waxed

Units Double Banded

GARCIA STUDMILL

OLD GROWTH

DOUGLAS FIR STUDS

Precision Trimmed

Anti-Stain Treated

End Waxed

Units Double Banded

FROM ALL THREE MILLS

OLD GROWTH

R EDWOOD

Posts & Rails

66rplrn LAST oF AMERTcA's vrRcrN r FORESTS ARE NEARLY GONE. Be- hind the private property sigrrg far back in the back of the National Forests, away from the highways and public.eye, the last of the nation's commercially important old growth saw tim,ber falls.

What onoe appeared as a limidess expanse of virgin timberland-already limited -will'soon be ended. Wood has built our nations, wood has built our homes and factories, but wood comes from the forests. "Cut and get out" was the slogan of a frontier industry-su.n'1 there an inexhaustible supply to the West? Over the

Th,is less tha,n unequioocal letter lrom lrom the presiilent ol thc Sierra Clu,b n prolessionol lorester Philw A. Bricgleb would, seem a Wr delense ol the oboious disnrtions presented, so stridently in a flm tlw,t the Sierra Club end,orses and, distributes.

Mr. Philip A. Briegleb Pregident Society of American Foresters Portland, Oregon

Dr. Mr. Briegleb:

SIe have attempted in publicationg and films by the Sierra Club to check carefully the factual material that is used.'I am well aware that our interpretation of facts and statistics is frequently in conflict with that of the lumber industry and with some paofessional foresters. "The Wasted Woods" was not produced by the Sierra Club, but since we have endorsed and distribute the fflm, we must accept responsibility for itg contents. I have discussed your criticism of the film with Mn David Bower, our Executive Direotor, and will bring your letter to the attention of our Publications Committee and the Executive Committee of our Board of Directors. If the statements in the film cannot be ddended, I believe f can give you reasonable assuraJrce that corrections in the narration will be made or the fflm withdrawn. f must, of coursg reserve judgment until we have had the opportunity to review the film and'study your criticism of the nanation. I have asked Mr. Brower to study the points listed in your letter and to reply to you in detail. His letter will be considered by the Executive Committee in its review of the fflm. Our ,two organiza- tions appear at times to differ on philosophy of forestry, particularly as it relateg to wilderneso, but we should at least be in accord on basic facts.

Thank you for bringing thig matter to our attention.

Sincerely,

William.E Sifi President Sierro Club

years the center of the lumber industry ing of logso so the industry, the men, and moved, slowly at firs! then more swiftly- the machines move to another county-to New England, Michigan, Wisconsin, to the Alaska, to Canada. Southern states, and inevitably, it seems, Many lumber towns across the countrpri to the most magnifioent stands of timber- flourished grea$y for a few years until the' the Douglas fir, the pine, and tlre redwood old growth saw logs were removed. Today-, of the Pacifrc slopes. The industry found .the houses and hotels are empty-the mills.il3 fabulous wealth in the Douglas fir region and the docks long since rotted away. Mute ii of Washington and Oregon It was the evidence of once great forest areas and :,i accumulated wealth of nature's unbusiness- prosperous towns (McCleary, Hoquiamo like progr'ess over time measured by the Elma, and Aberdeen highway entrance :i rise and fall of empires. Historically, the signs shown) lurnber which built the clapboard houses, America the prosperous! America the the gingerbread. nansions, the stockyards, beautifuMf sensible forestry had been the fences, the railroads, and the factories practiced here, the county and the com-' of the nation was cut'from big clean logs munities could continue to depend ,indefiout of mature trees. During the first fifteen nitely on the forests for tJreir livelihood, years of this century the average annual and at the same time protecting watervolume of this kind of timber cut exceeded sheds, soil, and wildlife. Because the easily 4,0 ,billion board feet, a rate which the accessible old growth timber has long since lumber industry approached again' only been taken from the State of Washington, ;:i twice after the First World War. And 20 production has dropped 40 percent below years ago when the rate waa around 30 the 1926 high point. Now logging is harder, billion board leet per year, virgin timber and it is more expensiveo and since the was being consumed four timeg faster than privately owned timber was logged first, the natur€ was rdacing it with gmaller trees. roads now strike deeper into tJre National Soontheoldgrowthtimberwillbegone_Forests-thewildernessmountains'Today, the industry will retool and consume the Washington is the largest supplier of wood small second growth, and a sixteen-inch pulp in the nation-soon, unless the public plank will be a museum piece. interest is protected by new legislative con-

More than 90 percent of the nation's trols, huge machines will reach'the end of timber comes from privately owned land. the road to satisfy seemingly insatia,ble deAfter a long history of reckless and short- mands for lurnber and paper. sighted management, these lan& have be. The effects of bad loggtttg are not limited gun to come under state regulationo but it to timberland. The lumber industry has a is still rudimentary at best. Although regu- long record on the West Coast of careless lation of timber practice is advanced in loggingoperationsthathavedamagedpriceCalifornia over most other stales, it's far less watersheds and ruined important from adequate. California is the second salmon and trout streams. On tJre tfrree greatest lumber producer in the nation. great rivera of the north coast ofC,alifornia; The annual cut in the state is around seven the Klamath, the Mad, and the Eel-tbe, billion board feet. Humboldt and Mendo- annual runs of salmon to their home spawneino Counties in the heart of the redwood ing grounds declined to one quarter of their region account for more than 4O pe-rcent original level after logging penetrated these of all timber cut in California. Lumber rivers'watersheds. The destructive practies production in Humboldt Corinty alone has included use of streambeds as roadways, increased more than 300 peroent in the operation of heavy equipment in streams, past 20 years. And the num,ber of active tractor logging on steep slopeq and resaw mills inereased by aOO percent. Almost moval of streamside vegetation. Is t}ris all of the commercial redwood timber is in necessary? Is it beautiful? Does it make private ownership, and it is estimated that for a truly prosperous nation ? Our forests most old growth redwood outside the scat- have flourished in an environment pretered state parks will be gone by 1975. It pared by centuries of time. Now the -big takes a redwood l0@ years or more to machines churn the surface of the land, mature. Man armed with a chain saw can destroying the topsoil that has been built cut one down in an hour. up oyer thousands of years. The once fertile

The working logger knows that logged- seed beds in logged-off lands are ruinedover land might recover in a hundred years, ,exposed to the baking of the sun. Rain will

$urrheJfg trees will-begone{orever' The - earry Jhe "recious -topwil-dbwn-ro Iogger, his family, and his community can't streams and rivers. wait a hundred years for a second harvest- Now that the old growth is running out on private land, the industry is moving more actively into National Forest lands. In Oregon, during the past ten years the proportion of the total cut coming from private lands has decreased 43 percent, and the proportion oI the total cut coming from the National Forest lands has increased by 137 percent. The W'ashington, D.C. lobbyists of the lumber industry pressure congressmen for larger cuts of government tirnber, and they oppose the passage of laws that would insure intelligent and civilized logging practicesespecially on privately held timberlands.

Who can measure the waste in our land of old newspapers, magazines, and cardboard cartons? If the annual per capita paper and paperboard consumption is the measure of civilization, we stand supreme --=436 lbs. per person, twice that of Great Britain, four times greater than France, twelve times greater than Italy, sixteen times greater than Russia. The United States produces one half of the world's supply of plywood, 43 percent of the paper and paperboard, 4O percent of the wood. pulp, and 30 percent of the lumber. In the last ten years production of newsprint in the United States has increased 94 percent; cardboard 105 percent, and paper towels, 102 percent.

Lewis Mumford has observed that the sound of our civilization is the rustle of paper-most of it meaningless and trivial, but behind it is the ubiquitous sound of the chain saw. Mountains of wood chips to be used in the manufacture of paper. Over the deeades the industry has made paper from the largg old-growth trees. Today, both large and small trees togetler with some saw mill residues go into the huge piles of chips outside the papermills. Soon the industry will scrape the surface of the land. Is this. prosperity?

Millions of acres of cutover land need to be planted-84 percent of this neglected area is under private ownership. Man knows how to plant Christmas trees and experiment in tree nurseries. Some of the industry is planting seeds, but their methods are experimental and by no means always successful. But as a public relations technique they have diverted attention from the need for adequate legislation to conserve our vanishing forest heritage before destruction occurs.

A huge volume of timber rremains in the woods as waste or logging residue. Over the years about one foot of every four has not been utilized. Government foresters estimate this unused wood left in the forest each year as waste equal a pile of cord wood four feet high and four feet wide extending around the world. The annual waste at sawmills-most of it burnedequals a second pile extending around the earth.

W'e are told: Only you can prevent forest fires. Yes, the camper and the fisherman must be careful. Bad logging practices created most of this hazrird. Logging debris, when exposed to the drying efiect of sun and wind, constitutes the most serious forest fire hazard. A severe fire burns the rich organic content of surface soil and in a few hours can destroy the soil tlat was built up over centuries of time. During the past fifteen years in Oregon and Washington alone, tlrere have been over 50,000 forest fires that have burned I,000,000 acres of forest land. The Tillamook fire in 1933 burned over 267,000 acres in eleven days, and it destroyed enough timber to equal the entire timber cut of the U.S. for that year.

Man disfigures the face o{ the eart}r, but he cannot return the land to its original beauty. Tree farms and sustained yield are little more than slogans. The destruction of our timberlands and of the natural and human resources they nourish will continue unless conservation principles are enacted into law. Only public opinion can force effective rule of conservation on a powerful industry. Only you can decide if the lumber industry is to be allowed to perpetuate its heritage of devastation or whether some measur,e of the nation's heritage is to be preserved and restored for future Americans. Beauty and abundance in our landscape are the measure of a nation's true and lasting prosperity.)J

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