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Show National Forest Notes. v Squirrels collect much of the seed used for planting by the forest service. A growing scarcity of willow, generally used for wooden shoes in Europe, is Jeading to an adoption adop-tion of poplar. Torry pine7 a distinct California Califor-nia species, has been found in only two isolated localities in the southern part of the state. One hundred acres on the Florida national forest will be sown to Maritime pine seed this fall. Maritime pine is the source of the French turpentine industry. indus-try. San Francisco recently received re-ceived its first cargo of lumber from the Tongass national forest, for-est, Alaska. The shipment consisted con-sisted of 1,500,000 feet of Sitka spruce. Three native species of larch furnish timber in the United States. One groWs in New England Eng-land and the lake states, another an-other in the Pacific northwest, and the third in the high mountains moun-tains of the northern Rockies. European larch has been planted extensively in the prairie states. |