| Show Science Teams With Forest Industry To Provide Wood to Burn for U. U S. S by Western Newspaper r Union One of the odd results of our defense program Is the development development development de de- of one of Americas America's Amer Amer- lens ica's oldest Industries and most natural resources resources resources re re- re- re sources os ns the newest Ersatz material Timber and Its expanding new products arc being substituted substituted substituted sub sub- for substitutes and replacing the metal alloys and composition materials which had previously replaced replaced re rc re- re placed forest products The reason for all nIl this is simply Dimply that timber is plentiful is n a growing crop and presents no bottleneck In proof of the fact that there Is no cause to worry about being deprived deprived de de- of toothpicks or having the morning paper rut cut down to postage stamp size Ilze a re recent ent survey directed by University of Michigan forestry experts shows our forests to be growing nt at a rate which will exceed exceed ex ex- the drain from all causes by 1045 1945 The significance of ot lids and the importance Imparlance of the forestation work being done by the forest products Industry In is evident when it Is considered considered consid ered that United States uses ulles half halt the tho lumber more than half the paper paper pa pa- per I r and two-fifths two of the wood used in all forms in the world U U. 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Taper Paper Use Due High Today the United States uses as much paper as ns all the rest of ol the world combined our consumption this year reaching an nn time nil peak of approximately tons Stacked four feet teet wide by four feet teet high the yearly woodpile to make newsprint for tor our dally daily and ond weekly papers alone would reach from coast to coast To give an nn idea Iden of how much newsprint Is used Inthe in inthe inthe the United States we the people read more than copies of the 1900 1000 dally newspapers and nd 15 copies of ot the weeklies and semi werl Yet despite this prodigious consumption there is enough standing timber in the United United United Unit Unit- ed States of the principal species now commonly ue used d In pulp and paper paper paper pa pa- per manufacture to keep the Industry industry industry indus Indus- try going at its present production rate for approximately years not even considering the Uie steady replenishing re re- annual growth It takes nearly 2 million tons of at p paper per to wrap our packages each twelvemonth And think of all the letters that must must be e written annu annually lly to u Uie ue c up approximately tons ot of stationery Yet despite the enormous quantities quantities quantities ties used ul there is 1 enough wood of the kind suitable for tor paper making standing in our forests today to last for more Ulan than 00 years if it every tree stopped growing tomorrow And this s huge reserve which docs does not even include wood for building and andall andall andall all the tho other purposes is being belne replenished by nature ture supported by bythe bythe bythe the forest rest products product t industries' industries modern modern mod mod- ern forestry program approximately approximate approximate- ly Iy as lust as it is being drawn upon So theres there's no excuse for tor putting off writing that letter home I Wide Varlet Variety of Products There Ther are arc in use at the present time more than Ulan different kinds of paper papEl and paper products They play nn an indispensable part In everyday everyday every every- day routine routine from from the time the morning paper is delivered through breakfast on foods which were packed In cartons and bags at nt the theoffice office where ledgers letters files mes checks and memos record business transactions where the telephone directory lists your numbers where the ticker tape traces market fluctuations fluctuations and where ether her pieces of paper laper request you to please rem remit remit re re- re- re m mit And there is one bill marked marled must remit und and addressed to the lumber paper and ond pulp pilip and ply- ply M f t r T. T Above photo shows hows one of at the time scientific steps In the forestry Industry of or today Width of or annual rings ring and qu quality lIty of ot wood are arc cue carefully fully correlated correlated corre corre- with Hh factors of climate te and soil IOU growth of the tree x y yA I A wl 1 I I i I 1 1 V 2 i I Prom From rom log to living room room room-cv- ev every f I cry ery step In the forest products i Industry Is being Improved by I modern methods Above picture I shows a n. workman handling a log logIn logIn i I i In time the early triages stages of lumber s production In the saw law mill At f Ct aY i prefabricated right prefabricated housing In Inthe Inthe i O the process units of ot a house home are arc s s. s x t. t built with factory methods at a n central point and hauled to the home site and ond assembled d. V wood Industries which is being paid on In n a constructive fashion which will yield future dividends This constructive action taken by the forest products Industries is the development development de de- de of continuous forest production production production pro pro- which eventually will put the forests of America on a constant constant constont con con- stant yield sustained-yield basis This range long-range view which Insists that timber Umber is a n crop opera operates tes In three ways ways- b bj by selective logging logging cutting cutting only mature commercially desirable desirable desirable desira desira- ble trees by leaving clumps of seed trees to produce a n new V crop by na natural natural nat nat- tural t- t ural methods and where neither selective logging or the leaving of seed trees is practicable by the planting of seedlings and young trees And with the development of the modern tree farm larm the lumber industry industry in in- is taking definite steps to provide for lor further replenishment of our forests at a rate which even the most extensive cutting will not equal The most ambitious of ol these projects projects ec JI t e tree tree farm in iq Grays Harbor county Wash This This' farm which promises to be n a model for the industry comprises comprise ov over r square miles or acres in a region famous for lor forests of Douglas Douglas Doug Doug- las Ins fir West Vest Coast hemlock Western Western Western West West- ern red cedar and Sitka spruce The rugged and rollin rolling terrain is not suited to general agriculture but Is land primarily suited suited suited-by by reasons reasons reasons rea rea- sons of soil and climate climate to to forest growing It is estimated that within 50 years timber of commercial size will be available thus systematically systematical systematical- ly working toward making timber a continuous crop Reproduction comes mainly from natural restocking restocking from from seed trees which are left left but but where fire has killed new growth and seed trees hand planting is resorted to The extent to which the West coast has gone Into the business of replenishing our forests can be gauged by the fact tact that over seedlings have been blen planted by hand on the forest lands of Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington and Oregon While mature matuie and ripe over-ripe trees will be harvested this year in Uie Ule Douglas fir region n these trees which would decay If U left standing will be replaced replaced replaced re re- re- re placed by between two and three million planted hand-planted seedlings to supplement the Uie 10 to 12 seedlings which nature plants for every tree cut Legislative Aid Unique in legislative history history history-an an example of an on industry sponsoring self regulation Is the action in obtaining obtaining ob ob- taming passage of an nn Oregon law which makes it compulsory for loggers loggers log log- gers to leave reserve trees to maintain maintain main main- tain continuous forest growth and to 0 pro provide ide adequate restocking No pi for tor the future can be adequate however unless protection protection pro pro- is provided for this present forest growth Forest fires throughout through out the United States annually take tako taken n 9 toll of some and an even greater waste waste results from decay and disease Millions of dollars are being spent annually by the forest products industries industries industries in in- to check the ravages of ot fire And approximately 33 acres of at privately owned timber are now under fire protection according to United States forest service surveys There are upwards of ol forest tires each year ear about one fourth of ot them set b by careless smokers and another fourth due to incendiary causes Modern scientific methods of ol fire firefighting firefighting firefighting fighting have been enlisted in recent recent recent re re- cent years with Increasing effective effective- ness Lookout towers pressure high-pressure pumping units trained crews armed with portable chemical extinguishers extinguish extinguish- ers and parachute squads are all contributing th their lr part In our present present present pres pres- ent crisis the gravity of this perennial perennial perennial peren peren- nial menace is increased because of the possibility 0 ol of sabotage activities In our forests or incendiary air raids raids raids-a a threat already anticipated by our military leaders who have organized emergency forces which would go into action if It such happened hap hap- Insect Pest Loss Less spectacular but even more destructive is the ravaging work of the forest insect pests Entomologists Entomologists Entomologists have found Cound the most effective means of control of some forest In Insects insects In- In sects is through Introduced para para- sites In the case of oC an insect which kills killa evergreens of the Uie Northeast parasites es are ore b being br bred d by the billions bil bil billions lions and dusted from airplanes over the forests Another method of reducing loss from disease and decay is by concentrated cutting of ripe over mature stands of ol timber such as are highly attractive to the fue insects Not only is deterioration so rapid that the loss exceeds the accumulated accumulated accumulated ac ac- ac- ac cumulated annual growth but the likelihood of Insect attack makes makei another hazard In other words accepted forestry principles now call caU for harvesting timber Umber crop before the decay of old age sets in and b before tore attacks by insects The Thc Importance of such conservation conser conser- efforts is obvious in view of the defense production goal set up for the forest predicts industries for 1942 19 National requirements for next year include 3 32 billion board feet of lumber cords of pulp pulpwood pulpwood pulpwood wood cords of fuel wood cubic feet of miscellaneous miscellaneous miscellaneous miscella miscella- products and barrels barrels barrels bar bar- of turpentine and resin for naval naval naval na na- val stores according to Secretary of ot Agriculture Claude R R. R Three Three fourths fourths of the tho expected to go into construction business next year will be for lor defense defense de de- de- de tense purposes Substitute Role nole One interesting sidelight on this picture Is the extending role played b by wood in substituting for s substitutes Metal alloys and composition tion materials which have replaced wood to a u certain extent in recent years arc are now under priority rulings rul rul- ings Wood is being rediscovered and engineers and architects are arc taking full advantage of a n natural resource so abundant that there is no danger of bottlenecks To again quote Secretary Steel plays the Uie spectacular part partin n in guns and tanks and warships but wood does doe much of ol the everyday everyday every ever day work Cantonments defense housing and factories are going up Wood is needed for pontoon bridges gunstocks ships and docks Special Special cial chat types of ot wood are needed for airplanes Wood goes into the making making making mak mak- ing of high explosives As charcoal It is used in las bas masks This list Bat I could be multiplied many fold lold I The forest unlike mineral resources resources resources re re- I sources is potentially inexhaustible and research in forest products is isa isa a 0 definite part of forestry Amazing scientific advances in new uses of ot wood are bein being made mad dally daily man many of them originating at atthe the th Forest Products laboratory at I Madison Wis Vis Here are being tested tested tested test test- ed new principles of prefabricated I house construction forecasting a major new industry Revolutionary I developments in to timbered construction construe I lion tion have ha been achieved through use of If new resin glues clues and ring connectors con ecton making it possible to substitute substitute substitute sub sub- laminated wooden arches for steel beams 11 Ins his been improved Improved Improved Im Im- proved and perfected a aid ad td experiments i ments meats are still sliU continuing I I I |
