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...caption for one of your pictures indicates that the area is part of the J. Neils tree farm in Montana and has been selectively cut. This particular area is owned by the state of Montana and was cut by J. Neils Lumber Co. under provisions of the state contract requiring removal of trees to certain diameter limits. Our silvicultural program for company lands does not permit cutting the timber so heavily. If the area had been cut as indicated in your picture, removing the dead, overaged and damaged trees only, the stand remaining would have been at least five times...
Wealthy old General Vien, who runs Le Grand Monde (as well as various hotels, lumber mills and fisheries) docilely offered several thousand of his uniformed bully boys as recruits for the Vietnamese National Army; General Vien himself retired to the quiet family life he leads with his two wives, twelve children, screeching monkeys, a leopard, a tiger and some pet crocodiles. Wife No. 1 got in step with the new morality by starting a campaign against striptease, immoral books and dirty movies...
...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...