g Capital Journal, Salem. Ort., Thursday. Sept. 22, 1949
HORATIO ALGER TYPE OF STORY
'back to the state forestry headquarters-
here, Rudy came, 'too,
good advance planning from
Lynn F. Cronemiller, and his
from the top,
All these groups work to
gether as a well - harmonized
team. And Rudy Kallander, the
guy who wanted to be a for
ester so much he wouldn't let
anything stop him, has a sturdy
hand on the reins.
first as a dispatcher, then as
staff, and there must be admin
istrative know-how and vision
property and purchasing offi
cer. He won his job as rehab di
rector in a civil service exam
last spring. Other contestants
got veterans credit and had up
to 24 years' service credit. Rudy
had neither, but still was way
ahead in the final score.
It was this man who planned
ill the "pre-planting survey"
which has preceded actual re
birth work in the thrice-ravaged
Tillamook burn. Crews he di
rected have mapped and
graphed parts of the Tillamook
area until they now know just
about all there is to know about
ICa I lander, 3 3, Heads State PI an
Of Millions to Restore 'Green Gold'
Ypw can I assure my children
a college education ?
the face of the earth there.
This information is important
so important it will save
thousands of dollars, so vital it
may be the one factor that
makes the rehabilitation pos
sible. For it is the knowledge of the
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Handful of 'Green Gold'
Rudy Kallander stands before
map of the Tillamook burn area
In which he will mpervise re
aeeding project. The 12 ounces of
Douglas fir seed he holds are
for planting two acres of trees.
Talking Over Project Three forestry department officials discuss the gigantic
seed-planting project. From left to right are Lynn Cronemiller. assistant state
forester; George Spaur, acting state forester, and Kallander. Two hundred thou
sand acres of the Tillamook burn will be reseeded. A forestry helicopter seeds at
the rate of eight acres per minute, traveling at a speed of 60 miles an hour. From
50 to 70 years are required to grow a marketable tree by present standards of
utilization.
This is Scene One:
The forestry professor looks at the youth and shakes his head.
"Son," he says, "be smart. Forestry is a rough business. You
have to work out in the woods, sometimes you have to pack way
back into the wilderness, and stay there Lord knows how long.
That takes a strong man who
can take care of himself.
"Now you you've got only
one arm. You'll never make a
forester. Why don't you try
teaching, or the ministry, or
something like that?
Sparks jump from angry eyes.
The young fellow flares back.
"I have ( couple of saddle
horses, and I take care of them
and myself," he spits out. "And
I can throw a diamond hitch
can you7"
This is Scene Two:
It is the spring of 1947. Nels
Rogers, Oregon state forester,
speaks.
"He's been our property and
purchasing officer for almost
ten years, and he's done a fine
job. Why change him now?
"Because he's worth a good
deal more to us on this new
lob."
Rogers objects once more:
"But the kid has only one
arm. How can a one-armed man
be anything more than a clerk?"
And Lynn Cronemiller, assist
ant state forester, replies:
"You ought to see him in the
woods. He can do just about
anything anyone else can. And
this boy is smart real smart."
Rogers gives in.
The young fellow with only
one arm leaves his glorified
clerk's job for the post as re
search director for an Oregon
forest rehabilitation program,
an unprecedented boost into
work affecting the economy of
the entire state.
This ie Scene Three:
It is July 1, 1948.
After only two years direct
experience in forest marfage-
ment, the young man with an
rm missing becomes director of
the entire (10 million program
that will restore the state's
"green gold" to production, so
our grandchildren and their
children may have some timber
to cut in the year 2025 to 2050.
9
His name is Rudy Kallander.
He is almost the youngest of the
high-ranking state forestry of
ficials, and he's come farther
faster than anyone else in the
history of the department.
He was only 33 last New
Year's Day, and here he is, re
sponsible for the conduct of the
greatest forest rehabilitation
program in the history of the
world.
His program Includes the ef
ficient use of up to $750,000 a
year, which Oregon citizens
voted to spend in last Novem
ber's elections. A decade from
now, he will have directed the
planting of some 10 million
Douglas fir seedlings, and the
aerial sowing of something like
seven billion seeds.
Rudy's the man for the job.
Despite the discouragement, he
breezed through Oregon State
college's four -year forestry
course in three years. When he
wasn't getting A's and B's in
forestry classes, he was swim
ming for the OSC team, and
getting a place or two in 220
yard sprints.
He has a bachelor of science
in forestry from his classwork.
From his experience he's be
come a master of silviculture
"the art of producing and tend
ing a forest and forest trees.
'Most brilliant practical sil-
viculturist in Oregon," George
Spaur says of him now. And
that might as well mean tops in
the nation, for no other state
has the forest problems Oregon
has now.
No one ever thinks of him as
"one-armed" any more. The
matter's never discussed. Rudy
has proven it doesn't mean a
thing he can think and act
faster with only one arm than
most fellows can with two.
He still looks like a college
sophomore curly hair, blue
eyes, a trim 14S pounds on a
five foot, eleven Inch frame.
Most of the time he wears a
sport shirt and moccasin-type
shoes. Around the office, no one
calls him "Mr." Kallander; it's
always Rudy.
His love of the woods comes
naturally. For three generations
back, his family tended the
king's forests in Sweden, work
ing in the service of Gustav.
Last summer Rudy's father went
back to Sweden for a visit and
saw in the pulpmills some of the
trees he had planted as a boy.
Rudy's dad has been a florist
and nurseryman in Portland for
many years. Rudy was graduat
ed from high school at the age
of 16 ("I used to take flowers
to the teacher, so I skipped a
couple of grades," he jokes).
then drove a delivery truck for
his father. A car accident cost
him his right arm.
He attended Willamette uni
versity here for a year, then
went to Corvallis and the for
estry program. It was there that
Spaur teaching school for a
time "discovered" him.
In 1938, when Spaur came
earth, the type of soil, the
ground cover, the density of
growth, the amount of natural
regeneration, the exposure and
slope it is the knowledge of all
these precise facts that will let
Kallander assign half or more
of the acres to a helicopter pilot
to seed from the sky.
Aerial seeding costs only a
third or a fourth of the $20 an
acre it takes to plant seedlings
by hand. If the entire area had
to be hand-planted, the expense
might be so great the rehab
program would be delayed or
not even tried.
Kallander insists he's just a
"cog in the wheel" of the state
forestry program, and that
statement, of course, is very
true. No one man could do the
rehab work without a lot of help
from many other men, each of
whom is in charge of some seg
ment of the work.
There has to De imaginative
research from John B. Woods,
Jr., and his department. There
has to be super-careful fire pro
tection from Dwight Phipps,
and his men. There must be
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