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Completion of the forest survey of Oregon and Washington has recently made it possible to compile reliable statistics as to the forest-land areas and timber volumes of the national forests in the North Pacific Region. This region, the sixth of 10 regions into which the United States is divided for purposes of national-forest administration, includes all the national-forest land in Oregon and Washington except an area in extreme northeastern Washington that is a part of the Kaniksu National Forest of Region 1, the Northern Region, and a very small area in southern Oregon that is a part of...

A study of forest growth in western Oregon and western Washington, the so-called Douglas fir region, was made in 1934-35 by the Pacific Northwest Forest Experiment Station. This is one phase of the Nation-wide forest survey undertaken by the Department of Agriculture under authority of the McSweeney-McNary Forest Research Act. Other phases of the survey are an inventory of forest-land areas and timber volumes, a study of forest depletion through cutting and through loss by fire, insect attack, and disease, and a study of present and prospective wood requirements. Material previously...

Detection of forest fires while they are still small is so important in forest protection that studies of the visibility of forest fire smokes from lookout points has been one of the principal phases of the fire studies program of the Pacific Northwest Forest Experiment Station. One phase of fire detection is the personal efficiency of the lookout. The Station has studied methods of testing the eyesight of lookouts and the effectiveness of colored and smoked glasses in lessening eyestrain. The study of glasses, made by Richard McArdle, E. J. Workman, and George M. Byram, led to selection...

Whenever the Tillamook burn and its problems are considered, there is need for accurate information on the location of the area, acreage burned, and the volume of timber killed. The data used by one agency are liable to be inconsistent with those used by another if a convenient source of accurate data is not available to all. In order to meet this need the best existing information has been compiled and is being circulated through this publication to interested agencies with the suggestion that these data be used in the future wherever applicable.

Increasing attention is being given to the possibility of making the United States permanently self sufficient in its paper, pulp, and pulpwood requirements. A steady increase in consumption of paper and other wood-cellulose products, accompanied by a corresponding increase in imports of paper, pulp, and pulpwood, has aroused considerable interest in the quantity of standing timber in this country suitable for pulpwood. Any significant expansion of pulpwood production in the United States can take place only in the Pacific Northwest, in Alaska, or in the South.

This issue of Forest Research Notes is devoted to abstracts of projects under way or recently completed by the Section of Forest Products. This section conducts research designed to contribute to better and more economic utilization of the products of the forest. As shown by the variety of subjects presented in these notes, the projects range from the statistics of production, which is carried on in cooperation with the Bureau of the Census, through the improvement of manufacturing methods, to improvements in the utilization of unavoidable waste in both woods and mill. Its research is by...

This number of Forest Research Motes is primarily for the forest fire protectionist. It consists of a number of very short articles, each of which gives the essence of the results of a study made recently by this Forest Experiment Station. These so-called fire studies which are represented herein by brief fragments are all part of an organized research program, having as its objective the betterment of forest fire prevention, detection, and control.

The outstanding publication of this Forest Experiment Station in recent weeks is the bulletin of the above title by Axel J.F. Brandstrom, Senior Forest Economist. Through the generosity of the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Foundation and the cooperation of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, an edition of 2500 has been printed. Most of the edition has been distributed to lumbermen, foresters and librarians. This bulletin of 115 pages of text, 47 illustrations and 54 tables has attracted much attention and its conclusions have been much discussed. It has undoubtedly started some new...

This inquiry, originally conceived as an effort to determine definitely whether the existing lack of adequate and practical forest fire insurance facilities is in truth unavoidable and, if possible, to suggest means whereby the condition might be remedied, finds no apparent reason why successful forest fire insurance should not be possible as far as the loss situation is concerned. There do not, furthermore, appear to be any serious deterrents from the underwriting or administrative point of view. Technical difficulties are no greater than those that have successfully been met in lines of...

A general survey of forest land ownership in western Washington and Oregon and an intensive study of parts of eleven sample counties therein reveal a condition that should command broad serious attention.