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Out of the \(/oods

By Jim Stevens

When Paul Bunyan finished the logging of the Onion Pines he was so pleased that he made a speech to celebrate. It lasted for nine days and nights without a break, and all the Bunyan loggers listened to every word, without a nap of sleep or a dab of grub. Each time that Paul stopped to draw a long breath it pulled the loggers over on their faces. Then, as he let it out, the big wind raised the loggers and rocked them back on their heels. "A most powerful oration," Horace Greeley said.

It was a young dream of Forester Bill Hagenstein's to rival Paul Bunyan's oratorical powers some day. The other day he made his best effort to date at the 1953 Annual of the Society of American Foresters in Colorado Springs. His title was "The Evaluation of Forest Management Practices." Or, as Paul Bunyan would have put it, "Sizing Up Ways to Log."

It was a prime speech, for all of the college words, and Paul himself would have been proud to make it' Let nte nrention a few examples.

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Hagenstein cites "adequate forest protection" as a major objective of forest management in the Douglas fir region. The new USFS Forest Survey measures progress of the past 20 years in forest protection ttirough five counties of South- r,vest Oregon and six counties of Southwest Washington, with comparisons of "nonstocked" acreage of the present with that of 1933. Then the total for the 11 counties was 1,154,000 acres. Now it is down to 590,000 acres.

Mason County, probably the national champion among 2,000 American forest counties, in forest protection, is proud to have seen its 147,000 acres of "nonstocked" forest land in 1932 brought down to 5,000 acres in 20 years' Less than one per cent of the county's 520,000 acres of commercial forest iand is now in the "nonstocked" category. And most of this is "recent cutovers," where the new crop has not had time to show up.

Ilagenstein, who heads up the Industrial Forestry Association, certifying agency for tree farms in Western Washington and Oregon, names "cutting methods" as the first of the three basic forest practices. The roots of the second basic practice, protection, are of course in cutting methods. "Planning" is the third. This takes in technical phases of harvest and protection as well as other elements of modern forest and logging engineering. Forest management practices today mean professional practice.

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Industrial forestry, as the oratorical heir of Paul Bunyan interprets it, has reached a high stage of know-how and practice on certified tree farms. These advanced examples of forest management practice now extend over 4,200,000 acres in the Douglas fir region. How are the practices in force on these tree farms to be evaluated ?

Hagenstein emphasizes the vast diversity of forest types and species on the American land. Variety rules in the Pacific

Northwest, too, even on most individual properties. However, a goal of certain general forest practice standards is essential, says the forester-hence his three "basic practices." I{e excludes "utiltzation" from the basic group because what is feasible in one locality is not practicable in another. That is, utilization practices depend mainly on markets, market roads, logging costs, and the like. A forest manager cannot utilize what he cannot sell.

\\/hat is the objective of ownership on a given piece of forest land ? This is a vital question, in the Hagenstein view, for a start on any particular evaluation. Farm woodland use is often simply for the farm owner's needs alone-for fuel, fenceposts, poles, shakes. The management objective on a public forest property is often only recreational. The common objective on the great majority of privalely owned, taxpaying tree farms, is to plan, protect and harvest a wood crop for profit production on a permanent basis. And-

But it would take me nine days and nights to tell it all. More later, maybe.

Nomed District Mcnoger for Gentrol cnd Northern Ccrlifornia

William E. Chichester has been appointed Blue Diamond Corporation's district manager for Central and Northern California, \rice President l-eonard W. Ross has announced.

A new Blue Diamond sales office to serve the Central and Northern California areas has been opened at 375 South Mayfair in the Westlake district of DalY City, near San Francisco.

Expansion of the company's gypsum products plant in Nevada will enable Blue Diamond to offer the same high quality gypsum products to Central and Northern California that have been in demzrnd in Southern California for more than a quarter of a century.

The completed plant will have separate lines for production of gypsum wallboard and lath. Production of hardwall plaster also will be increased.

Chichester, a conrbat infantry captain in World War II, l-ras been with Blue Diamond since 1938. He has represented Blue Diamond in Imperial, Orange, and San Diego Counties and the San Joaquin Valley.

Chichester will report to Blue Diamond wholesale sales manager H. S. (Jetr) Dillon, a veteran of 28 years' service with the company.

Normon Vincent

Funeral services for Norman Vincent, 68, Piedmont' retired lumberman, were held on September 10. He collapsed and died September 8 while engaged in his favorite sport, lawn bowling, at Lakeside Park, Oakland. Born in Iowa, he had been a resident of California for thirty-five years. He had been associated with the lumber business in San Francisco for many years.

Surviving are his l'vidow, Mrs. Agnes May Vincent; three daughters, Mrs. Virginia Peracca of Pasadena, Mrs. Barbara Nelson of Venezuela, and Miss Janet Vincent of Los Angeles; two brothers, Harry F. Vincent, Piedmont, general manager of E. K. Wood Lumber Co.. and James Vincent of San Francisco: and a sister, Miss Heien Vincent of Palo Alto.

Lloyd Webb, softwood division manager for E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Webb, spent the Iatter part of September in Northern California, Southern Washington and Oregon. It was a combined business and pleasure trip and he called on various mills in the lumber producing area visited.

N. E. Olson, Western Hardwood Lumber Company, l,os Angeles, has been assigned the sales territory of Imperial County, San Diego County, and all of the State of Arizona, according to Woodruff Toai, general sales manager.

Redwood Empire Hoo-Hoo Club #65

The Redwood E,mpire Hoo-Hoo resumed their monthly meetings with a fine turnout at Brook-Trails Resort, Willits, on September 11.

The {eature event of the evening was the re-initiation of John Gordon back into Club No. 65-it seems that in fine print of the revision to the Supplement to the By-Laws of the charter, one must be re-initiated after having gone East and returned to his former club. Poor John went swimming last night, clothe s and all; however, not before taking some of the instigators of the plot along with himcan't call that club dry.

Hqll Moves C)ftices

The James L. Hall Co. has just movecl its offices in the Mills Building, San Francisco, and is now located about five steps further down the hall on the same floor-sure saves on the moving bills. Their newly remodeled and more suitable ofhces are now at Room 1042 Mills Building, the telephone and teletype numbers remaining the same.

Fred Holmes, Flolmes Eureka Lumber Co., returned to San Francisco recently after spending trvo weeks up in the Klamatl-r River country. He was accompanied by his son and several friends-strictlv a men-only party-and aitogether had a fine time in the Northr,voods and got in some good fishing.

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