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,5 SOI.D BY LUMBER DEAIERS ONI.Y

Vood Conversion Company, Dept. 110-98

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The sage was asked the question "If you knew that you tvere to die tonight, what would you do today?" And he trn5$7s1gd-"I would plant a tree.r, * :r *

Plans for perfecting and perpetuating the commercial forests of this land have assumed a foremost place in the thinking of the lumber industry. Selective cuttipg is a phrase now highly respected by all our people. Sustained yield is not only a philosophy-it is becoming an obsession. Future forests are what all timber owners and lumber manufacturers now hope and strive for. This prevalent philosophy was a long time taking root; nevertheless it is here. * * :r r am going to tell in trrl" J.rri-" this time a brief story of the Coconino National Forest, to me the most interesting timber harvesting and forest perpetuating enter- prise that has ever come to my attention. I had read about this grand forest and its manipulation in several periodicals, and so I called on the U. S. Forest Service folks located at Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona, and asked them for dope for a story. Roland Rotty is Forest Supervisor in that area, assisted by Paul W. Bedard. Mr. Bedard courteously gave me the facts I am about to relate, and checked the things I had previously learned, so that what I have to tell is entirely official. If you, dear reader, do not find it as interesting as I do, you may charge me for the time wasted.

The other day the lumber manuficturers of the West met in conference, and discussed their problems. And the most enthusiastic announcement that came from that meeting was this: "Timber in the West is growing faster than we had ever dreamed possible." In the South that condition has prevailed and been understood for many years, since the rapid growth of Yellow Pine has become an accepted and provable fact.

Miracles of timber ,rJ*,ri, ,io, .*,.r, suspected a generation ago, although just as certainly a fact then, are reported from many previously forested regions. In Wisconsin, up in that colder region rvhere regrowth of timber was not dreamed of in the sawmill heyday, timber gro\ 'ing has become a major industry; already there are mills with a permanent tree supply. In Minnesota the Weyerhaeuser interests operate several huge timber using plants at Cloquet; and the miracle is that they plan to supply those indiustries permanently with fast growing wood, and never have to go more than fifty miles from town.

The above are just " "*ra.*U few samples of what has happened since we finally accepted the truth about commercial timber growing. fn Minnesota there are more people making their living off the timber industry and the various wood-using industries than there were fifty years ago when the state was humming with big sawmills cutting big virgin trees. No big mills remain; but the timber and timber using industry, grows.

Coconino County, Arizona, is one of the largest counties in the nation, covering approximately 12 million acres. Flagstaff is the county seat and commercial and business center of the county. Flagstaff has an altitude of 6,900 feet. Of the twelve million acres in the county, 3,389,667 acres are under Forest Service Administration. Coconino National Forest covers 1,750,445 acres. The rest of the National Forest coverage is on the Kaibab National Forest and parts of the Sitgreaves and Prescott National Forests that lie*within the county.

Under Forest Service management and supervision about 35 million feet of Ponderosa Pine is cut annually from the National Forests in the County other than the Coconino National Forest. This cutting is done selectively, the trees marked and sold, and the harvesting is done on a sustained yield basis. This entire production goes ,to various local sawmills, and the stumpage to be cut is sold by competitive bidding. Thus there will always be as much commercial Ponderosa Pine timber on these other forests in the County as there is today. Most of the mills cutting the timber from these other National Forests are small.

And now for the t."a" o*r, Jn" to"orrrrro National Forest. The total acreage is given above. There is more than four billion feet of commercial Ponderosa Pine timber standing on this acreage, and being managed and harvested on a perpetual cutting basis by the U. S. Forest Service. They have estimated that the sustained yield capacity of this forest is 61 million feet a year. This is being cut at the present time. In addition, another 9 million feet is being harvested annually, from what Mr. Bedard calls "a very light cut in virgin timber made 10 to 15 years ahead of the main harvest." The purpose of this cut is to utilize those trees in the old mature virgin forest which would otherwise die and be wasted before the main harvest reaches them.

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