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."
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(Editor's note. May 20 to 26 is Ore-
eon Conservation week, proclaimed
by the governor to draw attention to
the state's wealth of natural resources,
and the importance of conserving
them for future generations. 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
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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.
Forest managers are con
vinced that there will be a con
stantly increasing need locally
and nationally for all the forest
products that can be grown on
the land available, and man
agement practices should be di
rected toward that end.
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