| Show Cinderella Tree Awaits Fortune KAMAS- KAMAS Somewhere in Utah's Utah forests forest a Cinderella tree awaits th the magic 1 moment when she ahe may suddenly b bo be touched for fame and fortune The Cinderella tree may be an aspen a cottonwood a lodgepole pine opIne or some lome other neglected that seems to have little tittle apparent commercial value ulue at pre pre- sent The rags to riches raga story has hu happened to other trees Take the majestic hemlock of the Pacific Northwest fort forests for example It t was Wad once scorned Corned 81 as an inferior lumbering species Then someone discovered that IU Us were were unsurpassed for tor making paper and today the hemlock Is cultivated cul by foresters as u a valuable t tree treo n Ward Blazzard of Kamas Kama Valley Lumber Co Kamas chairman of the Utah Tree Farm Committee says lays variations of the same story have lave happened to tb such other Utah trees treM as white fir a and d Engelmann spruce pruce e com o m m l I t t tee e e handles enrollment of privately owned Utah forest land In the forest Industry's Tree Farm pro pro- gram gram Tree farming I ta is sponsored In the pine region by W Western Pine Pine- Asen to encourage encourage- more forest landowners to grow trees 8 as a renewable crop Blazzard said the Cinderella 1 mantle may even ven now be dro dropp dropping ing fag on lodgepole U Utah's h moat moot prevalent timber Umber species There are are- some 22 billion board feet of or I lodgepole pine In the Beehive Sta Stake e per cent of its total total- timber resource Lodgepole pine has haa grain and takes a fine finish wh when n properly kiln dried the industry mare mam said There are already a number of mills beginning to appear appear appear ap ap- pear elsewhere In the pine regIon that process lodgepole pine ex ex- If markets develop It will become feasible to apply more more intensive intensive t tree 1 e farming techniques tech tech- techniques e h. h to maintain th the health vigor and productivity of ot our lodgepole forests |
