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Redwood Region Condervotion Council Storts Tree Plonfing proiect

The Redrvood Region Conservation Council rvill launch its first tree planting project, probably in November, rvhen favorable ground conditions prevail, according to R. W. Matthews, E,ureka, RRCC President.

Supervision of the project will be handled by county chairmen for Del Norte, Humboldt and Mendocino counties. Henry K. Trobitz, Simpson Logging Company, Klamath, will act as Del Norte county chairman and E,d,w-in T. Pierson, Humboldt State College, Arcata, will be Humboldt county chairman. The Mendocino county chairman is yet to be announced. The trees planted will be all Douglas fir and will be planted on private lands in the Redrvood Region by school children, led by high school forestry students.

Private land owners interested in having commercial forest trees planted on their lands are invited to contact RRCC President Mattl.relvs or the RRCC field office at 521 Third St., Eureka. Choosing of sites will be by lot and the trees rvill be donated. Land orvners 'ivill not have to pay for trees planted on their land.

Requirements for land to be eligible for planting are as follows: (1) Land must be actual or ltotential commercial forest land. (2) Land must be in private orvnership. (No change of title is involved. Permission to plant is the only concession.) (3) Land should be either cutover or recently burned and fairly free from brush. (4) Area should be within easy reach of good winter roads permitting easy access for school children in school buses. (5) Orvner must provide protection from fire and excessive grazing and must have a genuine interest in forest conservation. Areas fenced frorn grazing are preferred. (6) Areas preferably should be small, from 10 to 44O acres in size, and part of a small ownersl.rip. (7) Land sl-rould be that not likely to reforest naturally in a reasonable number of years.

The purpose of the planting project, according to Matthews, rvill be to interest the next generation in forest conservation and to help provide a more stal;le forest economy for the region in the future.

Huge Hongor Houses Plywood Plqnt

Probably the largest and at the same time the most unique building occupied by any plywood plant on earth, is the one that now houses the plyu'ood division of the Diamond Lumber Company, Tillamook, Oregon.

It ies a former U. S. Navy dirigible hangar, nearly one-fourth of a mile long, 420 feet in rvidth, and 200 feet high inside the building. It is an all-wooden building used during the last war for housing Navy dirigibles, and the entire structure is rot and fireresistant.

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