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Tree Farms in Western Oregon and !(/ashington Total 3,677 ,7O7 Acres

Portland, Oregon-West Coast tree farm acreage in west_ ern Oregon and Washington jumped to 3,627,702 acres with the certification of 407,015 additional acres in the Douglas fir region.

E. ?. Stamm, chairman of the Forest Conservation Commit_ tee of Pacific Northwest Forest fndustries, said the new lands included in the tree farm intensified managemenr program covered 144,789 acres in eleven new tree farms as well as 262,226 acres added to tree farms previously certified.

Stamm said the sensational growth of the tree farm move_ nrent since its founding in this region in l94l was one of the great industrial stories of the nation. He cited the present national acreage of more than 22 million acres in 28 states as proof that private forest owners are making tangible progress in improving the sound handling of forest crop land.

The conservation leader said a tree farm is an area of private, taxpaying forest land dedicated to the perpetual growth of forest crops under consciously applied forest practices. He said West Coast tree farmers have much higher than the minimum state requirements. standards

Four small tree farms in Washington and two industrial tree farms in Oregon totaling 3,852 acres lost their certificates for violation of the committee's rules.

In Oregon the conservation grdup approved the tree farm applications of McGrew Brothers in Douglas and Jackson counties and The Long-Bell Lumber Company properties in Polk county, both totaling 16,979 acres.

Washington had nine new tree farms certified: Charles Rowlands, King county; Oscar Rose, Frank Taylor, Milo Sexton and M. G. Harnden, all in Skagit county; G. S. Williams, Whatcom county; Pilchuck Creek Tree Farm, Snohomish county, I-ong-Bell Lumber Company Tree Farm, Cowlitz county and Skykomish Tree Farm of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company in King, Snohomish, Skagit and Whatcom counties. These nine new tree farms total 127,810 acres.

Tree Farm areas now certified in Western Oregon total 1,303.006 acres. Washington has a total certified acreage in the western portion of 2,374,701 acres. Stamm said that the regional inirease in tree farm acreage in 1950 was 12.4 per cent over 1949.

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Corydon \Tagner New President Of Lumber Association

Washington, D. C.Corydon Wagner, outstanding \Yest Coast lumberman. has been elected president oi the National Lumber Nlanufacturers Association for 1951. H. [I. Seaman, executive vice president, Kirby Lumber Companr'. Houston, Texas and retiring president of the Association, has been named chairman of the board.

The elections highlighted the 1950 annual meeting, held November 13-16 at the Shamrock Hotel, Houston, Texas.

Incoming President \Vagner has spent his entire career in the lumber business. He is vice president and treasurer of the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company, Tacoma, \\rashington. A former president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, NIr' \\'ragner has been active in the National for many )'ears' serving in 1942-43 as a regional vice president and last year as first vice president. In 1945 he u'as elected President of the American Forest Products Industries, Inc' and served as a trustee of that group from 1941 to 1917.

Chairmanship of the board is a new position created by the directors at the Houston meeting' An Advisory Policy Committee lvas also formed; its membership s'ill include the chairman of the board, the president and first vice president, plus all past presidents of the Association. Under a nerv policy adopted at the meeting, each NLNIA president 'ir,'ill hereafter serve for one year, after s'hich he rvill become chairman of the board, and the follorving vear assume chairmanship of the advisory committee. A. J. Glassorv, vice president and general manager, Brooks-Scanlon Inc., Bend, Oregon, u,ho served as NLNIA president prior to I\{r' Seaman, beomes chairman of the nervly created policl' group'

The board rvent on record favoring limitation of government research in the housing field to projects rvhich cannot be handled by facilities available to private industry' It also passed a resolution advocating a special "defense tax" at a uniform rate to be super-imposed on regular normal and surtax corporate rates.

The NLI\IA Forest Conservation Committee presented a number of resolutions rvhich were approved by the board These included a revision of the forest policy statement, a recommendation relating to Federal acquisition of forest lands, provision for a survey to determine the extent of industry's interest in forest fire insuran'ce, and a recommendation for study of Federal legislation pertaining to dam construction as it affects timber resource managemeflt and development.

The board approved a recommendation of the Forest Conservation Committee that the Association undertake a research project to be called "Improvement of Fire Resist-. ance of Lumber and Lumber Assemblies."

The NLI\IA Hardrvood Research Committee approved programs for the utilization of lorv-grade hardu'oods, improvement of furniture, a soil improver project, a nitric acid pulping process and utilization of $'aste.

Declcre Bonus to All Monthly Salcrried Employees

Pope & Talbot, Ini., century old lumber and shipping firm, has declared a bonus of one month's salary to all monthly salaried employees.

George A. Pope, Jr., president of the firm, said that successful operations during 1950 justified this action. "The results we enjoyed this year would have been impossible without the loyal cooperation of our employees," said Pope- "Their efforts {eserve recognition."

Employees whose salaries are controlled by collective bargaining agreements are not affected.

Pope & Talbot, Inc. was established in San Francisco in l&19 and has held an important position in \Vest Coast lumber and shipping since that time. The compan)' operates lumber mills in \Vashington and Oregon in addition to cargo and passenger services to South America and the East Coast of the United States.

Fire Destroys Scnrmill

The sas'mill of the Van de Nor Lumber Company' near Arcata, Calif., rvas destroyed by fire November 30, with' a loss estimated at $40,000. The fire rvas believed to have been started by a spark from the burner.

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