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Left. Rusty Cain, Sandy, a member of a
Forest Service tree planting crew working
in a freshly logged area on Larch Mountain
in the Mt Hood National Forest, talks with
forester Walter Lund of Portland. Earlier,
A half-mil ion-acre milestone
has been passed in a program be-
gun more than a half a century
ago to start new timber crops on
logged or burned National For
est lands in the Pacific North
west.
From a meager beginning in
1909, the artificial reforestation
program conducted by the U.S.
Forest Service in its Pacific
Northwest Region of Oregon and
Washington now covers from 50,-
000 to 60,000 acres annual y.
Recently, in a newly logged area
of the Mt. Hood National Forest,
overlooking the Columbia river,
your noble fir seedlings were plan
ted on the 500,000th acre to be
reforested since the regeneration
program began 54 years ago.
In an Informal ceremony, the
first tree was planted on the his
toric half-millionth acre by Wal
ter H. Lund, Portland, assistant
regional forester for timber man
agement, and a 36-year veteran
of the Forest Service.
His use of the planting hoe
was symbolic for hand planting
still accounts for some 70 to 80
per cent of the acres to be artific
ially reforested In the Northwest
Region each year. The remainder
is accomplished through direct
seeding, largely with helicopters.
“We’ve made great progress in
advancing aerial seeding tech
niques, but the 'man with the hoe’
Is still the key figure in our re
forestation efforts,” Lund point
ed out.
Of the 62,918 acres reforested
In the Pacific Northwest Region In
1962, 49,177 acres were planted,
some by machines, but mostly by
crews using hand tools.
“There’s just no other way to
do it on the tougher sites where
the young trees must fight for sur
vival from the beginning,” Lund
said.
Lund hud planted the first tree on the hulL
niillionth aere to be planted or seeded by
the Forest Service since the beginning of
its reforestation program in 1909 in the Pa
cific Northwest.
(U.S. Forest Service photo)
Each year, timber Is harvested ods of reducing the annual $15
from about 250,000 acres of Na million loss caused by animal
tional Forest land in Oregon and damage on Northwest timber lands.
Washington. On 20 to 30 per cent, There are also the threats of
of the logged areas, nature must destruction by fire, Insects, dis
be given a hand in starting a new ease, windstorms, and competing
timber crop. Where artificial re vegetation.
Leaving the planting to a For
forestation is necessary, it is the
objective of National Forest man est Service crew headed by fore
agers to establish a new forest man Frank Baker, of Cascade
crop within one to three years Locks, Lund and his group pro
ceeded to a nearby plantation of
after logging.
This does not include a back- vigorous Douglas-flr. The trees
log of around 400,000 acres need- had recently undergone their first
ing reforestation to heal old for commercial thinning designed to
est fire scars, some dating back release the stand for increased
50 to 100 years. Forest Service growth.
The trees had been planted some
officials hope to complete that
30 years ago, about the time a
job within 10 years.
The first recorded forest plant young Forest Service officer
ing in the Region was in 1909 named Walter Lund was serv
in the Mt. Hebo district of the ing on the Olympic National For
Siuslaw National Forest, In Ore est in Washington.
“We knew then that keeping the
gon’s Coast Range. Three years
later, planting began in the State land in production was our most
of Washington on the Snoqualmie important job,” said Lund. "It’s
just as true now, even more so.”
National Forest.
Since that time, timber crops
have been regenerated on 300,-
000 acres of National Forest land
in Oregon, and around 200,000
acres on National Forests in Wash
ington.
The Civilian Conservationcorps
program of the 1930s gave a strong
boost to the reforestation effort
when fire-scarred slopes were
re-greened with millions of seed
lings planted by young CCC work
ers.
“We’ve come a long way, but
we’ve got a long way to go,”
said Lund as he tamped earth
around the tiny noble fir he had
just planted on Larch mountain,
east of Portland, in the Mt. Hood
National Forest.
The tree will be fighting for its
life, Lund pointed out. It could
become the victim of hungry ro
dents or animals. Intensive re
search is under way to find meth-
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prize In the glrln’ division looks
a bit tired of the whole thing.
At least, with all her extra pad
ding she was well protected
against the cold.
week finished making costumes for
the Santa Claus parade in which
18 Cub Scouts of Pack 248 entered
a float as Santa’s Sled pulled by
reindeer and followed by all of
his helpers. They won first prize.
There will be a Cub Scout Christ
mas Party Pack Meeting Friday,
Dec. 20, at 8 p.m. in the Activi
ties Room at the Grade School. The
Christmas tree will be decorated
with decorations made by the Cubs
in their den meetings, it is hoped
that all parents of Cub Scouts will
attend. It is requested that par
ents bringing children to the party
bring a small present to place
under the Christmas tree for Santa
to give to the child attending the
party. Mothers, please bring two
dozen decorated cookies.
On Saturday, Dec. 21, the Cub
Scouts will meet at the grade school
at 2:15 p.m. and go from there to
the McGuire Nursing Home to
decorate a Christmas tree and to
sing carols.
By ( APT. I. S. HARTMAN , former planning officer,
staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff g
AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND New Zealand foun 1 themselves
thrown back on their own resources
The lands down under will prob and those of the United States.
ably not be known in our lifetime The events following the war have
for any great political ideas, lead further accentuated this trend and,
ership or revolutions. The great as of now, their exports of meat
fascination of this area lies in its products into U. S. are on a sharp
people and its land, as well as in increase. In turn they are import
its strange animal life.
ing more from this country.
To me the people are the most
Of all the people of other na
fascinating because it is with them tions, Oregonians would probable
I have had the most contact. The like the people “down under.” best.
September 1963 issue of National They are rugged, fun-loving and
Geographic has two extremely in above all independent.
teresting articles dealing primar
ily with the land and the animals
of the region.
Unlike Americans who settledin
the New World for political and
economic reasons, the emigrants
to Australia and New Zealand were
By FERN HORTTOR
basically rebelling against the so
cial system existing in England.
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go of religious dissidents, the early Dover way.
Dover Sunday school people and
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ance of all emigrants were from the day at the Gresham rink.
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large industrial cities of England
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and were not well adjusted for life program under the direction of
delphia Mint Lincoln cents, Jef
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In the wide open spaces. They be
ferson nickels and Roosavell
came disillusioned in the coun will be given on Dec. 20, Friday
dimes.
try and flocked back to the major evening at 8 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 22, at 7:30 p.m.
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life Is not considered attractive at the Dover church.
and this has brought about what
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It is in these hotels that the fam
ilies from the “stations,” as their
ranches are called live when
they come into the cities to spend
a large portion of each year. This
custom has of course handicapped
the economic development of the
country.
A socially conscious people, both
the Australians and New Zealand
ers early adopted socialistic in
stitutions as opposed to our rug
ged free enterprise approach. This
has also served to greatly slow
down their economic development.
To emphasize this point one can
look at the railroad system. Per
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ious gauges and with deplorable
rolling stock. The attitude of the
employees would be incomprehen
sible to us.
An article in the Perth news
paper described a new spark catch
er that was being installed on the
smoke stacks. The advantage of It
was that “the engine driver could
not remove it without stopping the
train.” Heretofore they had been
able to remove them while the
train was in motion and soon
after they left the station. It was
of course regulation to have spark
catchers on locomotives at all
times, but they couldn’t enforce It.
Another amusing incident of the
rail system occurred when some
of our navy boys were taking a
train from Perth to Kalgoorlle, a
wide-open gold mining town some
four hundred miles in the back
country. They were held up for a
considerable period of time en
route while a new conductor was
procured. The boys had gotten the
original conductor so drunk he was
unable to perform his duties.
Starts the Day After Christmas
Prior to World War n, these
people were almost entirely de
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pendent upon England for manu
factured goods which was in ex
change for their wool and meat
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