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The pulp and paper industry in the Pacific Northwest is able to compete successfully in national and world markets primarily bemuse it is favored with dense stands of high-grade pulpwood in its back yard. This natural advantage need not be temporary. Here industry can obtain such stands continuously because it can grow them.

(Matthews)The test was made to determine the effect of three possible variations in the indicator sticks: 1. Variations in shape. Will square, round, or flat sticks of the same cross section, length, and exposure have the same moisture content? 2. Variation in exposure. Determine the effect of exposing the sticks in the open versus exposing them under a screen. 3 . Variation in density or the effect of preparing the sticks to have the same weight or preparing them to have the same length. (Morris)The ground surface at the fire weather stations where fuel moisture indicator sticks are used...

Security from fire is the all-important prerequisite for timber growing after clear-cut logging in this region. Maximum security from fire is attained only when the land is again covered with a continuous cover of trees 20 to 30 or more years old.

The forest survey, a Nation-wide project authorized by Congress in 1928, consists of a complete and detailed investigation of the country's present and future forest resources in five major parts: (1) an inventory of the country's existing forest resources in terms of areas occupied by forest-cover types and of timber volumes, by species, in board feet and cubic feet, and a study of conditions on cut-over and on burned forest lands; (2) a study of the depletion of the forests through cutting and through loss from fire, insects, disease, and other causes; (3) a determination of the current...

In the Douglas-fir region of Oregon and Washington the protection and use of cut-over forest land are matters of utmost importance. In view of the large acreage of cut-over land and the additions that are being made to it each year, any use of such land that mill bring an immediate financial return, or reduce the fire hazard, without hindering the establishment of a new forest crop should be given careful consideration. Cut-over forest lands in this region have been looked to as a possible source of summer forage, as there is n shortage of summer range east of the Cascade Mountains and as...

For the information of Government and State agencies and of the public, data on annual lumber, shingle, and lath production in Washington and Oregon during the period 1869-1936 are here presented in tabular and graphic form. These data were obtained by the Forest Service, under cooperative agreement with the Bureau of the Census. They include the product of all mills cutting 50 thousand board feet or more per year. The total annual output of smaller mills in this region is negligible.

The forest survey, a Nation-wide project authorized by Congress in 1928, consists of a complete and detailed investigation of the country's present and future forest resources in five major parts: (1) an inventory of the country's existing forest resources in terms of areas occupied by forest-cover types and of timber volumes, by species, in board feet and cubic feet, and a study of conditions on cut-over and on burned forest lands; (2) a study of the depletion of the forests through cutting and through loss from fire, insects, disease, and other causes; (3) a determination of the current...

Douglas fir, the most abundant and most used lumber species in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, is being pulped on a commercial scale by the sulfate and soda processes. The markets for unbleached pulps are limited, and there has been much speculation as to the possibilities of developing pulping processes whereby the enormous quantities of otherwise unutilized Douglas fir can economically be converted into a bleached pulp or paper, with extensive markets. Experiments have been carried on for a number of years with this end in view both by pulp companies within the region and by the...

Enough natural reproduction to produce a fully stocked stand immediately after logging occurs on only a small percentage of the clear-cut and broadcast-burned areas in the Douglas fir region. Studies have been made of the environmental factors that enter into this rather hesitant transition from old forest to new in order to work out a silvicultural system for the type that will result in more prompt and adequate restocking following logging, and some of the more recent findings are given in the following paragraphs.

The research organization of the United States Forest Service in the North Pacific Region is the Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, one of the 12 regional experiment stations maintained by the service. This station, which has headquarters in Portland, Oregon, is making studies and surveys in the fields of economics, forest management, forest products, and range management with a view to promoting good forest and range conditions and wise utilization of forest and range resources. At present, it has a permanent investigative staff of 19, and its regular appropriation for...