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...slanderous to state that "because of federal limitations on logging operations and poor forest-management techniques, the Government's holdings yield only a quarter as much timber per acre as private timberland" [March 28]. The Forest Service has led the way in forest management. The national forests lend the only stability that exists in the timber industry, and on the poorest sites for timber production. The private timberlands, thanks to the generous land giveaways of the 1800s, are of deep, rich soils in the lowlands, while the national forests embrace the rugged mountain ranges that have thin delicate soils...
...spite of the tremendously greater growing potential on private timberland, most have been freely exploited and are now damaged and underproductive. Doesn't it seem reasonable that there should be "federal limitations on logging operations" on national forests so that the forests can add stability and a sustained yield of water, wildlife, recreation and forage, as well as wood, for people now and in future generations? Why not put the blame for high lumber and plywood prices where it belongs- on the market-managing lumber and plywood industries...
Lack of Access. The U.S. faces no shortage of timber. National forests alone occupy an area twice the size of California. Because of federal limitations on logging operations and poor forest management techniques, the Government's holdings yield only a quarter as much timber per acre as private timberland. The Agriculture Department has long complained that Congress allows it too little money to manage better, even though the sale of timber to private lumber producers nets the Treasury substantial revenue. A lack of access roads causes as much sawtimber to be lost to storms and insect infestation...
Flaring through parched timberland in the drought-stricken Pacific Northwest last week, the worst forest fires in more than half a century defied efforts to contain them. So far this year, some 1,800 fires have destroyed more than 105,000 acres of timber in Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Fire-fighting costs have climbed to $17 million; damage to the economy of Oregon alone is estimated at $5,000,000 a day. Because of the menace, most of the national forests in Montana, Or egon and Washington were closed to tourists and logging. President Johnson has declared Idaho...
Last year Hansberger invested $88 million in half a million acres of Texas and Louisiana timberland to feed a $100 million pulp and paper mill due to start operating at De Ridder, La., in 1970. Though Boise Cascade already makes everything from envelopes to cartons, last month it strengthened its position in packaging by acquiring St. Louis' R.C. Can Co., maker of fiber foil and plastic cans for such varied items as premixed biscuits and motor...