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,TYCETVSE CEDAR-ott" of the country's best siding materials. Incense Cedar weathers beautifully, and it provides a high dimensional stability against swelling or shrin'kage. For protection against heat and cold, Incense Cedar is one of the finest wood insulators. It readily takes-and holds-paint or any of the many varieties of modern finishes. With Incense Cedar, you have one of the finest siding materials available.

For paneling and, woodwor&, Incense Cedar is also a popular choice because of its characteristic knots, graceful grain and frne workability. It is resistant to daily wear and is easy to maintain. Incense Cedar is usually available in mixed car shipments. Inquire from your Western Pine Mills.

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Pine Tree Forming Guoronlees Lumber Tomorrow product by Good Housekeeping Magazine for its excellence, or the adoption of a hallmark for identification. With certification goes authorization to mark the Tree Farm with a distinctive sign board. This sign board indicates to all who see it that the owner of the Tree Farm has a policy of managing his land to grow crop after crop of trees. It is a mark of distinction. And it is also a mute appeal to local people to let the trees mature without the risk of loss by fire.

Obtaining a certificate is not merely a matter of form. Before an owner applies for certification he should satisfy himself that his policy is definite and his motives sincere, because the association inspector makes it his business to inquire into these first. He will not penalize the owner for unacceptable past practices that have been terminated. He looks at current practices and inquires into the prospects for their continuance. If he is satisfied that the application is sincere and the current practices are in accord with continuous production, he makes a favorable report to his tree farm committee. If the Committee gives approval, there is another tree farm to be added to the 46 million acres of the 72,@0 tree farms already certified nationwide.

Faith in the owner's intentions is necessarv. But sometimes it may have been misplaced or the ownef sells.out and his successor has other ideas. Therefore the certificate is revocable. The tree farm emblem and certificate, and the program as a whole must be protected like the brand name of a good product. And the standards must be maintained, else the program and its emblem will fall into disrepute.

In closing, let me congratulate the officers and directors of the Pacific Coast Company for adopting the policy of forest management that led to the certification of its 28,000 acres of forest as a tree farm. May it be successful in keep- ing out fires and pests and in constantly intensifying iis management as economic conditions permit.

Years ago, Vernon Brightman (above) of Blocksburg, Californiallke many other ranchers-girdled what he thought were "worthless" Douglas fir trees oh his holdings in an effort to gain more grazing land. That was in 1940. Most of the trees healed their wounds and continued to grow, like the fir shown above, until they became far more valuable than the gtazing land. Today Brightman is a certified, tax-paying Redwood Region Tree Farmer, and is managing his timber as a crop. He is shown checking the growth of the girdled Douglas fir (note the scar near the base) with an increment borer.