Forestry Boord Resolution

RESOLUTION of the State Board of Forestry

Concerning National Forest Products W'eek

Wurnras, industrial and residential construction has made California the greatest consumer of forest products of any state in the nation, and continues so with the growing demand for new housing and employment opportunities increasing as California's population rapidly grows; and

Wnnnus, good management of its extensive and renewable commercial forests has made California second among the states in lumber production, providing the forest products industry the largest source of industrial employment outside the great metropolitan areas in California; and

Wnrnels, sustained development of the forest industry is essential to the continued health and welfare and the economic srowth of California:

Now, TnunrFoRE, BE Ir Rnsorvro, that the State Board of Forestry, meeting in regular session at Riverside, California, this l0th day of Septembe4 1963, gives recognition to the week of October 20-26, 1963, as National Forest Products Week, and to the impact it affords to the forest products industry's contributions to California's economy, and does hereby urge the people of this State to continue their support of the forest products industry by using the many products made available from this renewable forest resource.

APPROVED:

W. B. Carter Chairman, State board of Forestry.

Smokey fhe Beor Goes on Loqn

"smokey the Bear," California's famed symbol of {orest fire prevention, will go "on loan" tl-re week of October 20 to Los Angeles area lumberm€n, to help the lumber industry observe National Forest Products Week and remind the public that 'ogood conduct in the woodlands is a year-round requirement."

The State Board of Forestry, meeting today at Riverside, made the loan of "Smokey" a part of its official recognition of National Forest Products Week which will be highlighted at the industry's annual luncheon, Oct. 23, at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.

'oThe Lumber industry, understandably, gives strong support to forest fire prevention programs," according to Board Chairman W. B. Carter of Lancaster, "and we in turn are glad to let Smokey out on loan to the lumbermen for their week,"

'oSmokey's work with the lumbermen in October will help stress the point that good conduct by the public in the Woodlands is a year round requirement, in October as it is in June or September," he said.

Stqnwood A. Murphy Elected New CRA President

Stanwood A. Murphy, President of The Pacific Lumber Company, has been elected President of the California Redwood Association to succeed Julian N. Cheatham, Vice President o{ the Georgia-Pacific Corporation. The CRA Board of Directors reelected Philip T. Farnsworth Executive Vice President. Arch O. Lefors, Secretary, and Martha J. Berg, Treasurer at its annual meeting, September I0.

Murphy is the fourth generation of his family in the 93-yearold Pacific Lumber Company. He succeeded his father, the late A. S. Murphy, as President in 196I. The elder Murphy was President of the California Redwood Association in 1948.

The new President of CRA was elected to the Board of Directors to succeed his father in 1961. Other members of the Board include, Mr. Cheatham; Russell Ells, President of the Willits Redwood Products Company; C. Russell Johnson, President of the Union Lumber Company; Howard A. Libby, President of Arcata Redwood Company; and J. L. Robins, Vice-President-Marketing, Simpson Timber Company.

Mr. Farnsworth, who first joined the California Redwood Association as a staff mem,ber in 1936, has been Executive Vice President since 1956 and General Manaser since 1953.

John McGuire Nomed to Forest Service Post

John R. McGuire is the new director of the U.S. Forest Service experiment station in Berkeley, Calif. He comes to his new assignment from Washington, D. C., rvhere he was assistant to the deputy chief for research, U. S. F-orest Service.

NlcGuire succeeds Dr. Keith Arnold, who becomes director o{ forest protection research in the Forest Service's Washington office.

McGuire's assignment to the Berkeley station marks his seconcl tour of duty in Berkeley. He served as chief of forest economics research for 5 r'ears before being transferred to W'ashington in t962.

Author of several reports on {orest resources, forest taxation. and timber marketing problems, Jre has also published professional papers on the management of eastern hardwood and pine forests. He is a major contributor to the 713-page report "Timber Re. sources for America's Future," published in 1958 by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

His Forest Service career dates from 1939 and has been devoted almost entirely to research. He first spent a year at the Central States experiment station in Columbus, Ohio, working in timber management research. In 19,X0 he joined the Northeastern station. but left the next year for service in the Army, and in 1946 rejoineci the station staff. Two years later, McGuire became research center leader in the eastern v'hite pine region at Alfred, Maine. In 1950 he was promoted to chief of forest economics research at the Nortlreastern station, rernaininq there until 1957.

McGuire is a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Scienc;e, American Forestry Association. Commonwealth Cluh of San Francisco. Siema Xi" and Societv of American Foresters.

A native of Milwaukee, Wis., N{cGuire was graduatecl from the University of l\{innesota in 1939 with a B.S. t'legree in forestry. He earned a master o{ forestry degree in I94I at the Yale School of Forestry, and an NI.A. in e<:onomics in 1954 at the Liniversity of Pennsylvania.

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