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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1943)
Autruit 6, 1948 1 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON This rMfcU tiflit, otfi tol marker af tha Watt im flna AiMClotlen, It aw 4py4 an high ways m tha Klamath IIH, In America there is a fine quality about being first It is something that can be shared. And so,' when an organization like the Western Pine Association, which represents the Pine lumber industry in all the eleven Western states, issues Certificate No. I for a Tree Farm located in the Klamath Basin, the honor goes to the community as a whole. - " ' ' In establishing this first Western Pine Tree Farm, our company seeks to apply conscious, organized plan of good forest management to definite areas of forest land for the purpose of providing a perpetual supply of wood for conversion into useful forest products. We have planned as carefully as we know how to make ours a PERMANENT wood - using industry in Klamath Falls. We believe such planning to be simply the exercise of good, common - sense business prac tice on our part. We believe also that it makes busi ness sense for the community of citizens who live in the Klamath Basin and in Oregon. In keeping with Amtrican traditions, the establish ment of Western PiVie Tree Farm No. I. is definitely a private venture. The bulk of the forest lands held within its boundaries are private, taxpaying lands. The A-not iter : FIRST For Klamath risks and expenses accepted, such as those for fire, protection and restocking, are those of private cap?-; tal. The responsibility for management is private. .': Nevertheless, there is about this whole pioneer un dertaking an atmosphere of unescapable public inter 'est in which the private company must operate and upon which it must, 4n fact, depend. By its very nature a Tree Farm is a cooperative enterprise which depends for success on sound under standing and working relationships between private enterprise, the citizens of the community and of Ore gon, and the local, state and federal governments. In a sense, the dedication of the Weyerhaeuser Klamath Tree Farm today creates an unwritten under standing between a private company on the one hand, as steward for certain forest lands, and the citizens of the Klamath Basin, of Oregon, and of America on the other hand, as participants In the harvest from those lands. It is a many-sided undertaking for mutual ad vantages, with corresponding responsibillti' 'e le gated to each side. Together, we can make it work. I, N V: Y A6I HINT o o o o
