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Society Honors Retired Teachers At Last Session Retired U-achers were hon ored at the May meeting of Delta Kappa Gamma, honor society for women educators, the event be ing a luncheon at Rogue Valley Country club. Miss Dorothy Wilson present ed an "apple" for teacher. Hon ored were Miss Eugenia Carson, Miss Ethel Reid, Mrs. Alice Wil lits, Mrs. Maye Wells and Miss Grace Lytle, Ashland: Mrs. Mae Richardson. Central Point; Miss Ruth Nye, Mrs. Blanche Canode and Mrs. Ivah Murray, Medford. Mrs. Alice Ottis, president, presented Mrs. Willitts, retiring vice-president, a corsage in ap preciation for her work during the president's absence. Miss Willits presented a ' fourth year scholarship from the society to Miss Wilma Bench during the an nual Mothers' tea held in Ash land. Miss Anna Laura Honts was installed first vice-president, re placing Mrs. Willits. Miss Gladys Owen took office as second vice president. A group of members attended the state convention in La- , Grande, Ore., May 3-5. Attend ing 'were Miss Gladys Owen, Miss Florence Allen, Mrs. Wil ! lits, Mrs. Kathryn Stanclifie. : Mrs. Bertha Haskins, Mrs". Max : ine Smith and Miss Delie Whise- nant. Mrs. Haskins, a past president of the Jackson county chapter, was a guest of Alpha chapter, Klamath Falls, May 11. Mrs. Haskins showed pictures taken during her tour of Europe last year. ! A communication from Miss Jeanette Smith, now in- Mem phis, Tenn., was read. Miss Smith left Jackson county last October to work for the Koinonio Foundation in Baltimore, Md., and is now working at the Mem phis branch library which is operated for Negroes. Miss Smith specializes in reading material for the newly literate, and wrote that "some of our new readers have signed a library card, writ ing their name and address when they could not have done so a few months ago.". Musical numbers were pro vided by Miss Oveta Walden and , Miss Sharon Roberts, accordion ists. They were introduced by Mrs. Mabel Sims, Phoenix. Mrs. Ottis -esided. Mrs. Jennie Cal houn, a past president of Omega chapter, Grants Pass, was a guest. About 40 members attended tho meeting. It was announced that the regional fall planning meeting will be held September 14 in Bend. Portland Chamber Asks Protest To Air Force Portland HP) The Portland Chamber of Commerce today asked the Oregon congressional delegation to protest Air Force abandonment of plans for a new air base in the Portland area. Chamber President David Duncan, noting the dual use by military and civilian aircraft at the Portland International air port, said "as the volume of traffic increases, our problem in this respect inevitably will be come more acute." Conservation Means Forests Will Not Be Used Up, Destroyed It's Ss Burks 1 Fo, f - We Are Proud to Announce That We Are Now Featuring V. the Beautiful CALIFORNIA Sun Master Garden1 Umbrellas With covering! of nylon laminated plastic and with remote control tilting device. 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To mark the occasion, the Mail Tribune is printing a series of six articles, pre pared by experts in various fields of conservation.) FOREST MANAGEMENT By H. G. Hopkins, Forester, Rogu River National Forest This is '-Conservatiqn Week." During this week conservation of our natural resources is be ing emphasized. Among these re sources are soils, forests, clean water, wildlife, forage, scenery and outdoor recreation oppor tunities, and minerals. This article deals with conservation of forest resources. But just what does "conserva tion" mean? What is "conserva tion"? One definition is "wise use such use as will not de stroy or impoverish the re sources." I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who is quoted as saying "The land belongs to the generation now living to use and pass on unimpaired." That is a pretty good sample of the general idea of conservation. For Futurt Us When applied to forestry "conservation" means that the forest will be used but not used up or destroyed. If not used up it will be there for use again in Sew-Easy Sheath ft V - "t-l 1 1 - t. ' 1 ' - -! . . i- "t L i SIZES 9370 10-i8 try 1irc?liAtl Our new PRINTED PATTERN sew-simple you'll make this sheath-dress in ,so little time; easy instructions are printed on each part! A real summer beauty; those sleek, slim lines do such wonderful things for your figure! Printed Pattern 9370: Misses' sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. Size 16 requires 3V4 yards 35-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, faster, ac curate. Send Thirty-fir cants in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst-class mail ing. Send to Marian Martin, care of Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N.Y. Print plain ly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. the future, next year, five, 10, 50 years from now. Foresters have a name for such use. They speak of it as "sustained yield management." The idea of sustained yield is that the amount of timber cut or harvested from a forest man agement unit in any year or short perior of years will be re stricted to approximately the amount that grows during that same period in the management area or unit. The idea is equally good whether applied to a large area, as a national forest work ing circle of 100,000 acres, or to a farm woodlot of 40 acres. It is just applying to forest management one of the common sense rules that - good farmers have always used in managing their herds and flocks. If a farmer wants to stay in busi ness he only sells off or har vests each year the increase in his herd. He knows if he sells more than this he will be cut ting into his growing stock and he must keep a good growing stock to get good production. Principal Resources The type of management being applied to the timberlands of Jackson county affects and should be of concern to each resident of the county. Jackson county's principal resource is timber producing land. This is hard to believe looking at the area from the highways and in habited valleys. But actually better than 80 per cent of the land area of the county is classi fied as commercial forest land. In acres this amounts to 1,457, 000 acres of forest out of a total county area of 1,803,000 acres. Harvesting and processing the timber crop from this forest land area furnishes the principal pay roll and source of income in the county. Log production in Jackson county was reported to be 670 million board feet in 1954. This amount to 460 board feet of tim ber for each area of timber land. The sustained yield of the en tire forested area of the county has not been calculated exactly but is generally believed to be somewhat less than this figure of 1954 production under cur rent management practices. Not Constant Figur The sustained yield for any forest management unit is not a constant figure. It "can be in creased by good management or decreased by poor management, much sa the yield of a farm varies with the type of farming done on it. The big difference is that in tree farming the re sults are so much slower to show up since it takes up to 100 years or better to produce a crop. Among the major require ments for keeping forest land productive are: ' adequate pro tection from fire; maintaining a good growing stock of trees of all age classes from seedlings up to mature ones; and prompt and complete restocking of cut over areas to the best species for the location. Full utilization of the mature timber is also im portant. Other practices that will increase production to high er levels are protection from in sects and disease, reclaiming brush patches, thinning stands that are too dense and in some cases pruning. Much Public Ownership Of the 1,457,000 acres of com mercial forest land in Jackson county, 850,000 are in public ownership or control. Most of these lands are managed under a sustained yield program. Na tional forest land makes up 411, 000 acres administered by the Forest Service of the U.S. De partment of Agriculture. All but a small fraction of this na tional forest land is included in Friday, May 24, 1S57 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE the Rogue River National For est. An approximately equal area of public land in the coun ty is the O & C and public do main land administered by the Bureau of Land Management of the' U.S. Department of Inter ior. National park land .is not included in the classification of commercial forest, land since it is not managed for timber pro duction. Privately owned forest land amounts to 607,000 acres in the county. The national forest and Bureau of Land Management lands managed for sustained yield. Many of the private own ers are striving to give good management to their lands, but some have not yet thought of their timber as a crop to be managed for continuous produc tion. Others, particularly small for est landowners, are beginning to take advantage of the various aids available to them such as technical advice offered by the State Forester in harvesting, and financial assistance in reforest ing land under the Soil Bank and Agricultural Conservation Program. Techniques Told On the Rogue River National Forest the timber management program includes intensive fie protection; protection of 60,000 acres of white and sugar pine land in the Prospect-Union Creek area from white pine blister rust; selective cutting of timber stands suited to that method of logging; patch clear cutting of even-aged mature stands followed by disposal of the slash and prompt replant ing; utilization of all material that will pay its way out of the woods; and the development of a road network that will make possible more and more inten sive forest farming in the future. 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