rOtfHTEZH MZDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday. July 11. 1358
BLM Head Cites Success of Private Tree Farm Operation
By A. ROBERT SMITH J "Much o the enthusiasm for
' Mail Tribun. Corrwpondent public ownership of forest lands
Washington The sympathetic j haj 8rjsen i general from the
attitude of the Department of ! belief that the public interest is
the Interior toward some sort of j better served when such lands
plan to dispose were retained in public owner-
A. BobL Smith
Woorley said
: success of privately operated
: tree farms has done much to war
rant a restudy of the compara
' tive effectiveness of government
' vs. private ownership of western
publie lands.
"If it can be demonstrated that
the private industry tree-farm
can and will provide higher
standards of efficiency in forest
management than federal for
estry programs," declared Wooz
ley, '"the impact upon public
thinking would be tremendous."
Woozley made his observations
in a prepared speech at the dedi
cation of the Potlatch River tree
farms, Kendrick, Ida. It follows
' close behind the report to Con
gress of the Interior Department
that it is "sympathetic" with
; the objectives of legislation that
would permit disposal of federal
. lands to private interests or the
states. Last week Sen. Richard
L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) asked In
terior to clarify what it meant
; by this, and conservationists be
: gan expressing alarm over this
,' proposal.
Mass Funeral Due :
: UAL Crash Victims ;
Flagstaff, Ariz. (U.R) '
- United Air Lines has announced
j that the unidentified victims of
; the UAL DC 7 crash in Grand j
Canyon will be buried at a pri- j
vate mass funeral. I
W. A. Patterson, UAL presi- i
4 dent, revealed Tuesday that the
J time and place for the mass j
. burial has not been decided and '
will be announced later. The j
airliner carried 53 persons to '
" death when it apparently collid
ed with a Trans World Airlines
S'jper Constellation June 30. '
; An inquest was held Tuesday
; Into the deaths of the persons
aboard the UAL plane. The jury
was given a list of the 29 identi
" Iicd bodies and shortly after
ruled the deaths were accident
, si The same ruling was hand
: ed down earlier for the 70 vic-
tims on the TWA plane.
All but three of those who
, died aboard the SuRer Constel-
lation were laid to rest Monday
' following mass services at the
; Flagstaff cemetery. The three
, victims were taken to their
'. kome towns for burial.
or some teaerai : sh;p said -Voozley. "It is my
forests andhop(? and belief that the tree
grazing lands j farm program will demonstrate
was spelled! 1nat thp pubijc interest can also
out in more;be weU served where forest
detail tniS;ianjc ar- nrivatplv nwnpH Al
ready there is growing evidence
that there are equally as good
forestry practices in the private
industry tree farms as in forests
managed by federal agencies."
Woozley explained that BLM
administers public domain for-
week by Ed
w a r d Wooz
ley, director of
the Bureau of
Land Manage
ment. he thinks the
est lands and the O&C timber
lands of western Oregon.
"These public domain forest
lands are subject to disposal by
sale or otherwise under the pub
lic land laws, when classified as
suitable for non-federal owner
ship," he went on. "In some sit
uations, where parcels of public
domain forest land are surround
ed by or adjacent to private or
state tree farmlands it is possible
that ownership of such land by
the private tree farmer or the
state would result in their re
ceiving a higher standard of
management than they are like
ly to receive if retained in fed
eral ownership. Where such cir
cumstances exist I feel that the
public interest may be furthered
by permitting transfer of the
lands from federal to private
control.
Greater Adraniags
"In situations where inter
mingled private and federal
lands can both be operated
under tree farm practices of
about the same standard, there
may be greater advantage in de
veloping coordinated manage
ment plans than can be gained
by change of ownership. This
approach appears to be especial
ly desirable where the federal
lands are reasonably well
grouped for practical manage
ment and only the choicer por
tions of the group would be at
tractive to private ownership.
In some such cases the choice
tracts of a group might well
prove to be key tracts which, if
removed from the group, would
render federal management of
the remainder more costly and
much more difficult. Under
those circumstances I feel that
classifying public domain forest
lands for disposal would not pro
duce desirable results unless the
entire group of federal lands
could be purchased or selected."
Woozley said nothing about
disposing of the O&C lands. He
observed that they are in large
part intermingled with private
land holdings and that "there is
active cooperation between the
bureau and the managers of the
private lands."
"Neither the government nor
the private owners can do busi
ness as effectively as they should
in that area unless they consult
with each other in planning a va
riety of matters such as road
systems, timber sales, reforesta
tion, and protection measures.
It is a real test of the partner
ship ability of government and
industry to cooperate success
fully in solving the complex
problems of an enormous tree
farming venture."
Neither Parly Said
Worthy of Support
San Francisco (U.R) The
executive board of the Interna
t i o n a 1 Longshoremen's and
Warehousemen's union declared
today that neither party has a
good enough record in Congress
to warrant the support of labor.
The board issued a policy
statement criticizing Republi
cans and Democrats for failing
to do enough in the field of civil
rights. civil liberties. jobs,
wages, union rights and the cost
cf living. ,
As for the leading presidential
contenders in both parties, the
board said it had "so far seen
or heard nothing" that holds out
the promise of "moving our
SWITCH FOILS SUICIDE
Uelzen, Germany (U.PJ Pow
er company engineers threw a
switch Tuesday to win a race
with death. Company officials
learned that 27-year-old Gerhard
Trautvetter planned to take hi
lite by throwing himself across
high-tension wires. They cut off
the current just as he neared
the top of a 100-foot mast. It
took two hours for police to
coax the man off his perch,
while the utility firm lost $2,500
worth of business because of its
dead power lines.
country more resolutely along
the world to world peace."
The board suggested that its
members and locals elect con
gressmen and senators "who un
derstand the problems of the
working people . . ."
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