Timely Topics
From where I sit ,..ty Joe Marsh
By B. T. Moore
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H igh school boys , men, women —all who can
•pare a few days’ time-> are planting some
6 million Douglas Fir trees on burned-over forest
land this year. The job must be done NOW— to-
keep Pacific Northwest Tree Farms growing and
producing.
Most loggers now leave seed trees on their cut-»
over land. But fire is ruthless! Where forest fires
have raged, young trees must usually be planted
by hand if the land is to be brought back to timber
growth. Nature’s planting is better in every way;
but is destroyed whenever fire runs loose.
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Watch Your
Kidneys/
ENEMY FIRE! Re-planting today is bein~
done from necessity —to retain forward strides in
forestry. It is everyone’s responsibility to guard
against forest fires now more than ever be fore! Fires
bum up manpower and war-needed materials just
as surely as they bum trees! ...
D oans P ills
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THIS YOUNG MAN is holding
young fir trees ready for planting.
They were grown in the Forest In­
dustry Tree Nursery at Nisqually,
Washington, which has an annual
production rapacity of 6000,000
seedlings per year. The U. S. Forest
¡Service and the States of Oregon
and Washington, operata similar
nurseries.