Word: timbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge was more tolerant of Beaton's talents, but Beaton's father, a timber merchant, was not. After Cambridge, Cecil was put to work for a Mr. Schmiegelow, typing invoices for bags of cement. A young worldling of his acquaintance took pity. "Take it easy," he advised, "and become a friend of the Sitwells...
Year after year, men cruising timber or hunting deer in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon had come back with the same story. Near the little hamlet of Kamela, they had often heard a faraway tinkling, a ghostly bell ringing. No one was ever able to track down the strange sound. It would fade away in the sighs of the wind through the big pines. Skeptics accused the men of hearing things...
...lost 90% of its virgin commercial timber to fires, insects and the woodman's ax, and trees are still falling about as fast as they are growing. Big U.S. lumber companies have been given most of the blame for this drastic, and usually wasteful leveling of the nation's tall timber. Last week the biggest lumber company in the U.S. took another big step to build the forests up again. In a stand of Douglas fir near Oregon's misty Coos Bay, John Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr., Yale-educated president of the $273 million Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., unveiled...
Islands of Trees. The tree farm ideas, although standard practice in Europe for years, did not take hold in the U.S. until the late '30s, after most of the nation's virgin timber had been cut. In 1941, the Weyerhaeuser Co. took the first big step; it laid out the first tree farm in Grays Harbor County, Wash...
Weyerhaeuser wanted to show that loggers could make money by farming trees steadily from the same acreage, instead of stripping stands of timber clean, then moving on to another part of the forest. The company, which had once done its share of destructive timber cutting, began to preach and practice "selective cutting," ordered its lumberjacks to fell only mature trees. It had one great advantage over many others: it controls so many woodland acres in the northwest that it could divide them into big plots, cut each in sequence, thus assure itself a steady crop of trees every year...