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Show FORESTER 01BDTLEB RETURNS FROM CONVENTION Forester O. M. Butler of the silviculture silvi-culture department of the forest service serv-ice has returned from a convention of lumbermen at Bellington, Ore.. In which the logging situation on coast streams was considered quite extensively. exten-sively. The discussion was of a general nature, Mr. Butler states, and the results were of little Interest only to those directly concerned in the lumber business. Mr. Butler relates that fires In the forests of Oregon have raged for some time past and that they are still burn Ins fiercely The country has been visited by an unprecedented drouth, resulting in fires starting in man places, Miuh timber has been de stroyed and a number of sawmills burned down |