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Rejoins Red Cedar Shingle Bureau Dougfas Fir Region Tree Farm Totals

George Messner, popular prewar fieldman of the lled Cedar Shingle Bureau, has rejoinecl the Bureau as a field representative, according to an announcement by W. W. Woodbridge, secretary-rnanager.

Messner will be remembered by lumbermen throughout the Middle West, r,vhere he traveled extensively during 1939 ancl 1940. He entered the U. S. Army in February of 1941, went overseas early the following year, and for the next 3 years

Top Three Million Acre Mark

Portland, Oregon, November 29-Douglas fir region tree farm totals topped the three million acre mark today rvith the certification of 268,707 acres of private forestland, according to Edmund Hayes, Portland, chairman of the Joint Committee on Forest Conservation.

New areas of private timberlands dedicated to perpetual forest production include two properties in Oregon with a total of 51,024 acres. They are Pope and Talbot, Inc., Upper Willamette Tree Farm in Lane county and the Copper Creek Tree Farm of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company in Clackamas and Marion counties.

George

Megsner

and B months served as an officer in the South Pacific.

"With Mr. Messner's appointment the shingle industry is taking another step in assisting its distrillutors-dealers, wholesalers and .commission salesmen-in the promotion and merchandising of Certigrade cedar shingles," Woodbridge said in making the announcement.

"He will be available to serve dealers at group meetings, client contacts, and for the development of increased shingle business in all ways possible. Mr. Messner's background, his personality and his innate enthusiasm rvill prove to be marked assets to the shingle distributors with whom he will come in contact."

Washington gained 217,681 acres with a large forest holding in Pacific county owned by the Willapa l{arbor Lumber Mills and Weyerhaeuser Timber Company certified as the Willapa Tree Farm. Additional acreage was certified for the Clemons Tree. Farm, the first tree farm in the United States, and the Mt. St. Helens Tree Farm, also a Weyerhaeuser property.

Hayes stated that today's action by the committee tallied a thirty-fold increase in Douglas fif tree farm acreage since Clemons lree Farm was certified in 1941. There are now 3,012,861 acres of private forests in western Oregon and Washington operated as tree farms. This is the second large certification this year by the Joint Committee which is the official tree farm sponsor in this region for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and the Pacific No:thrvest Loggers' Association