Autruit 6, 1948
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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
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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
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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.
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