MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1963
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Loggers Play Leading Role in Meeting
Oregon loggers will nlav a
leading role in the 54th annual
meeting of the Pacific Logging
congress when it gets under
way in Portland on Nov. 6, ac
cording to President Robert P.
Conklin of Eugene and Lake
Oswego.
Three Oregonians serve as
principal, officers: Conklin as
president, Robert F. D w y e r,
treasurer and Carwin A. Wool
ley, executive vice president.
This will be the largest log
ging congress in the organiza
tion's history, Conklin reports.
Attendance could reach 2500.
Headquarters for this organiza
tion, more than 50 years old,
will be at the Portland Hilton,
with business sessions and ma
chinery show slated for the
Portland Coliseum.
There will be at least $15 mil
lion worth of logging machinery
on display, advises Carwin
Woolley, who has bad the diffi
cult task of finding exhibit spnce
both inside and outside the Coli
seum for all the machinery and
equipment firms desiring tn
show this year.
Congress Theme
"The Business of Logging"
will be the theme of the Con
gress, and it will be the title of
an interesting discussion head
ed by Oregon banker, Fred Bur
row. Loggers will find out how
a banker looks at logging and
ways to make money. W. S.
Ouderkirk, Eddyville, will take
part in this discussion.
C. H. Willison, Crown 2eller
barh, Portland, will head a
panel which could draw some
fire. It concerns the role of vo
cational education and the com
munity college training of log
gers and forest products work
ers. Roy Gould, Diamond Lum
ber company, Tillamook, will
also take part in this panel, to
gether with Rae L. Johnson,
Georgia - Pacific corporation,
Portland.
Another session will have to
do with portable spar mainte
nance and two Oregon equip
ment men, H. K. Halvorson,
Sutherlin Machine Works, and
Charles J. Baker, The Skookum
company, Portland, will take
part.
Logginh Safely
A three man logger panel will
discuss safety in logging snd
one of the three will be Jim
Grady, Western Pine associa
tion. Portland.
Making a transition from
board fool to cubic foot in mea
suring log volume is a highly
controversial topic which will
be included in a discussion per
iod headed by Professor Ray A.
Yoder of Oregon State univer
sity. He will be assisted by a
panel of practical loggers which
will include two Oregon men,
John C. Hampton, Willamina
Lumber company, Willamina
and Douglas C. Smith. United
States Plywood corpor a t i o n,
Lebanon.
Sunny Weather
Probably the most contro
versial session will be the final
program, which will feature Dr.
Irving P. Krick, Denver me
teorologist, whose accurate long
range weather forecasts for
American industrial firms, has
brought him international atten
tion. He will have as his topic
"Weather Engineering for the
Logger."
This may well be the top fea
ture of the Congress, Conklin
reports. Dr. Krick has forecast
sunny and warm weather for
the three days of the Congress,
so weather forecasters will be
watching to see if they can
catch him wrong.
Paul Ehinger, Edward Mines
Lumber company, Westfir, will
be chairman of the resolutions
committee, which reports on
Nov. 8; Glenn Parsons, La
Grande is on the nominating
committee; Charles Hamilton,
Portland machinery man, is
chairman of the entertainment
committee and four Oregon log
gers serve on the automotive
equipment committee. They are
George Shaver, Portland; Bud
Cummings, Springfield; Lyle
Wimer, Albany and Harold Bri
schle. North Bend.
Loggers and their wives will
have one of the busiest and
most profitable sessions of the
Congress, believes Presi dent
Conklin.
The wives will see the World's
largest shopping center at
Lloyds, attend a fashion show, a
brunch, tours and finally a din
ner dance at the Hilton. They
too, will have their theme, "The
Care and Feeding of the logger."
Wildlife Abundant
In Selective Cut
Areas of Woodlands
Visiting an area which has
been logged by selective cutting
a year previous can be enlight
ening. The toured area looks much
like any typical forest with
seedlings, wild flowers and
grass, unlike many forests in
their natural state with wind
falls, insect killed trees and
heavy brush choking out light
and new growth.
Wildlife is more abundant in
logged over areas since the new
growth provides choice forage
and travel is much easier. Many
deer may be observed, mostly
does and fawns.
This type of logging requires
care and skill to prevent dam
age to the timber left standing.
Trees removed are those called
"high - risk" trees which are
over - mature, defective, insect
infested and some mature
trees.
Provide Healthy Growth
Trees left standing provide a
healthy vigorous growth for fu
ture harvest. By state law, all
snags are felled to eliminate
lire hazard from lightning
strikes. Dense growths of pole
sized trees are thinned to en
courage maximum growth. In
the natural state the weaker
suppressed trees would lose in
competition with the more
dominant trees so thinning aids
in the growth of the h e a U h y
trees.
In some areas, the removal
of the larger trees will release
the younger one to grow.
This practice also encourages
natural re-seeding by the trees
adapted to the area. Trees left
standing provide cover for the
tiny seedlings from driving
rains or hot summer sun yet
leaving room for adequate
growth.
Area 'Fire-Trailed'
Exterior boundaries of an area
to be logged are "fire-trailed"
before or during the logging, de
pending on the season and con
ditions. All skid - trails are "water
barred" before the area is left
to prevent erosion. In many
cases the brush is combined in
these small size dams to build
a water - bar resistant to the
heaviest of winter rains. This
practice corrects one of nature's
faults by stopping excessive
water run-off in many cases.
This is only one of many ex
amples of converting a wild,
semi - decadent and stagnant
area into a healthy one of grow
ing and productive trees. The
trees provide forage and cover
(or wildlife, reproduction of new
trees, water conservation and
most important, a raw material
for continued employment in the
area.
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