Show western forests provide timber for war construction moro marc than 87 million hoard heard foot ot of lumber taken in quarter of your year reports compiled in the r re 0 office of the U S forest service vi a ogden show allow that during the period july 1 to septet september 11 SO 30 of at this year board feet of timber was cut front from the national forests of 0 this region this compares with a total of at out cut during the same period in 1941 the three forests having tile the largest umber cut this quarter are re all located in the ponderosa pint pine region of southwest idaho tha doise national forest la Is first with al a cut of board et the payette forest second board foot feet and the idaho forest third with board feet in III commenting on these reports IV L robb assistant regional AI forester in charge of tim her bar management remarked marked Ce work on the national forests crests ot of the intermountain region has beell en streamlined to tit fit it inep the war effort Ourt Our orests forests are taking making large contribution ii to the food for fredom campaign through their forages water and eane resources and it is very gratifying gratifying to bo be able to provide umber limber as needed while we have increased the cut over per pep cent since last year wo we continue to handle fiana our timber as a crop only those trees freoa ripe tor for harvesting are marked for or butting cutting and tile the sa salos sales los areas arp left ett in shape for increased growth by br the remaining trees |