Word: spruceness
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...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...
...harvest is only half the job. Year round company foresters roam the woods to protect the crops against disease and fire, spray insecticides to kill off such enemies as the pine beetle and the spruce budworm, which can destroy masses of trees. If fire has cleaned out all mature, seed-bearing trees, the timbermen do their own planting. In six years Crown Zellerbach seeded nearly 30,000 acres of barren land, gave away more than 1,000,000 seedlings to 4-H clubs and others for planting...
...paid another visit, and left behind in the church tower the biggest and handsomest clock the villagers had ever seen. Last summer, after selling his business, Mike went back to pay still another visit to Pyrgi. Once again he opened his purse and his heart, to spruce up the local schoolhouse and the village square...
...cars, playing saxophone in a dance band, and packing tomatoes in a fruit-and-vegetable company. But when the Depression struck in 1930, he decided to look around for a business of his own. He did not have to look far. North of Duluth there were forests of scraggly spruce trees; the tops, thought Halvorson, would make fine miniature Christmas trees for use on dinner tables and in small apartments-if he could find a way to preserve them...
...make sure that higher temperature is killing the birches, Dr. Pomerleau told how researchers in New Brunswick warmed the roots of trees with electricity. They died faster than ever. There is evidence that spruce and balsam, and even the proud maples that are the symbol of Canada, may die as the climate changes...