Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NORTHWEST LABOR PEACE for the embattled lumber industry seems assured for the next 15 months. Both A.F.L. and C.I.O. loggers (100,000 men), who walked out on strike for 84 days last fall, have agreed to a 7½? pay increase recommended by an arbitration panel appointed by Washington's and Oregon's governors...
...days lumbermen had a harsh motto-"Cut and get out"-as they marched across U.S. forests leaving them stumped and stripped. The result was that by the late 1930s the U.S. was in danger of becoming timber-poor, and the lumber industry was under heavy fire from conservationists. Today, lumbermen have a new approach and a new program that promises to produce more trees than ever before. The project: tree farming, under which U.S. forests are as carefully planted, managed and harvested as lettuce and tomatoes. When loggers fell a tree, they make sure a new one grows...
...acres owned by St. Joe Paper Co., and Texas has 3,400,000 acres producing fast-growing Southern pines for U.S. construction and pulp mills. But the biggest operations are in the Pacific Northwest, where the idea first took root. There the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Potlatch Forests, J. Neils Lumber, Crown Zellerbach, Long-Bell Rayonier, and other large companies have nearly 8,000,000 acres of tall Douglas fir, cedar, hemlock, spruce and pine spreading across four states...
Credit for the idea goes largely to the Weyerhaeusers. As far back as the turn of the century enlightened lumbermen talked of timber as a steady crop instead of something to be mined like gold. But no one did much in an organized way until 1941, when dwindling U.S. lumber reserves, new wood-using industries, and the increased needs of World War II gave the idea a boost. For a starter, Weyerhaeuser planted the first 120,000 acres of logged-over ground near Montesano, Wash, with Douglas fir seedlings, and sat back to watch them grow to logging size...
Spurred by many new uses for wood, U.S. lumber production last year hit a near record of 36 billion board feet. Yet the loggers promise that there will be more timber in the U.S. in the future than there is now. "Our big problem," says Arthur W. Priaulx of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, "is to get the idea across to the little guys. They can realize $25 an acre every year by tree farming, more than they can make by putting the same land into pasture." Those who have tried it agree. Says one timber-wise farmer...