the voice of 255.000 forest owners in New York- representing an ownership of 11 million acres

stewardship should be a moral principle of all landowners. The public has every right to expect the farmer,s the doctor, the lawyer, the teacher, and the conservationist, to develop an acceptable code of ethics with

to the land to which he holds title. You might say that he owns a debt of good stewardship for the rights, privi-and benefits society bestows. on him through land ownership.e same time, society has an obligation to help make the task of farming and resources management a reward-or the landowner and his associates who strive with him at these tasks. Life in the countryside, abounding as

natural beauty, should not and need not be a life of drudgery, poverty, and ugliness. "John Wilder, National Association Soil and Water Conservation Districts National Vice-President, speak-

~e 23rd Annual Meeting of the Soil Conservation Society of America.

FALL WEATHER MARKS

ly morning fog hung like a thickover Tupper Lake September

t by mid morning it had rolledznake way for a near perfect au-day as a hundred members of

many staying overnight inheaded for the Huntington

assembly point at the edge ofstanding 52 year old white pineonjust off Route 28N, 12 miles

...z Long Lake and within 2 milesvillage limits of Newcomb.e Mrs. Luella B. Palmer,er and Membership Secretary,members at the registrationder cover of one end of the

cars continued to crowdzoadway leading into the planta-

hand was a three man motionteam from the College of For-

emde r the direction of Dr. David

a motion picture sequence toin a 28-1/2 minute film on

k State's Forest Practice Act.

the occasion to shoot film showing agathering of forest owners as part ofa New York State Forest Practice Actfilm now developing with the coopera-tion of the Conservation Department,New York State ForestPractice Board,and the College of Forestry.

One of the scenes filmed took placea short walk from the registrationtable, in the splendid white pine plant-ation growing on a fertile old fieldplanted in 1916. The pines thinned bythe CCC during 1938-40 had beenpruned to 17 feet, followed by a sec-ond thinning in 1950-51 by students ofthe College of Forestry and at 4 to 6year intervals since.

This white pine plantation on theHuntington Forest is growing in ex-cess of a thousand board feet a year!Under current marketing conditions itis earning about $15 per acre per year.This earning capacity is directly re-lated to fast growth, which in 4 to 5years, shows height growth of morethan 6 feet and diameter growth dur-ing this time of more than an inch.

The opening Friday afternoon pro-gram got off promptly at 1:15 as JohnStock President of NYFOA, welcomedAssociationmembers to NYFOA's 6thFall Meeting and introduced Dr. Don-ald Behrend, Director of the Hunting-ton Fore st. With the aid of a large mapDon showed the layout of the 15,000acre tract and outlined what was to beseen on the three stops during the 12mile tour of the forest.

The long car caravan, abbreviatedsomewhat by doubling up, drove firstto the Spring Hill area. Here was acontrast of natural woods on one sideof the road and the other the effect of

using chemicals. The herbicides hadreduced the understory of beech as anundesirable component in contrast tothe preferred' sugar maple.

The four page Huntington staffhandout available at the registrationdesk urging the desirability of com-munication between research workersand forest owners, stated:

"The mature hardwood forest, ascharacterized at this stop, consistsof a two-storied forest with an abund-ance of beech in the understory com-ponent. All previous silviculturalpractices, practiced in the maturehardwood forest, have tended to in-crease the abundance and vigor of thisspecies. To preclude this we have beentreating the beech understory withherbicides to control beech.

"We are attempting to eliminate thebeech understory prior to any logging.Logging then will provide the increas-ed light to promote growth of regen-eration. Ideally, we would prefer towait for some 3-5 years followingbeechcontrolbefore cutting the over-story. When this is not possible ourcuttinghasbeensuch as to leave 7-10dominant sugar maple per acre to pro-vide seed. Eventually, we plan to re-move all merchantable trees and man-age the new stand as an even-agedforest.

Mist blowing herbicide equipmentwas onhand to see, - the cost of usingthe mist blower being lower than othermethods of chemical beech kill.

At Catlin Lake the staff paper read:"This beautiful lake is 540-acres

in surface area and lies partly in Es-sex and partly in Hamilton counties.

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NYFOA members listen intently asBill Tierson, Forest Manager of theHuntingtonForest explains method ofreducing beech reproduction by herbi-cide mist blowing of lower forest storyto enable preferred sugar maple togrow more vigorously. In the back-ground, untouched natural hardwoodforest.

Across the lake the Huntington For-est Natural Area of 15,000 acres, wasestablished by action of the Board ofTrustees of the College of Forestry.

Catlin Lake, elevation 1598 feet,.is the highe st lake in the Huds on Riverdrainage that would be affected by theproposed dams on the Hudson River.One of these proposed dams, if con-structed, would raise the level ofCatlin Lake some 5-10 feet."

On this glorious autumn afternoonCatlin Lake was indeed a treasuredspot to obs erve. It cast a sort of spellover the group. The smooth limpidwater prompted three of the ladiespresent to kick off shoes and waderight in.

The stop at Catlin Lake was an in-vitation to relax, to talk, to enjoy anexpanse of natural beauty and ab-undant color coming rapidly into thenorthern hardwoods forest. It was abright spot for the photographer anda most welcome one on the tour!

Come on in! The water is justgreat! Three feminine NYFOA mem-bers couldn't resist the appeal of Cat-lin Lake on a warm sunny afternoon.

Final stop took place along a roadwith an inverted "U" shaped trail lead-ing to, along and from a deer exclos-ure, meticulously brushed out by lo-cal Girl Scouts. At this point DonBehrend took up the microphone todescribe what had happened and whathad been learned by the use of ex-closure, a fence enclosing a 2-acrearea that kept deer out.

Regarding this stop, the staff notesexplained:

"This 2-acre deer exclosure was

Enj oying the autumn afternoon stopat Catlin Lake (from left) Dr. DavidL. Hanselman, Coordinator Educa-tional Communications and head of themotion picture team at College of For-estry; Robert E. Jones, RegionalManager American Forest Institute,Washington, D. C. ; BernardHoltman,Director-Producer of the College ofForestry's motion picture team; Rob-ert D. Greenleaf, Forester FinchPruyn Co. , Glens F'a Il s , and Chair-man NYFOA's 6th Annual Fall Meet-ing.

(from left) Floyd Carlson, formerNYFOA Executive Vice President andEditor, ForestOwner; Mike Demeree,Chairman, New York State ForestPractice Board, and John StockPresident NYFOA, ina relaxed moo~at Catlin Lake in the 15,000 acre Hunt-ington Forest.

erected in 1939 in a mature hardwoforest. After 11 growing seasthere was little difference in the veetation inside and outside the fenceIn 1955, a 3D-acre area includingexclosure, was logged with 50cent of the basal area being removeThis was followed in 1961 by a poising of the understory in order to isure continued light for growth of reproduction which was abundantinside and outside the fence.

"Differences in vegetation insiand outside the exclosure wereent the year following logging. In 1956the aver age height of striped minside and outside were 12.7 and 3.feet respectively. By1957, alteleaved dogwood was abundant insbut entirely absent outside.

''Differences in timber speciescame quickly apparent. In 1963,lies of reproduction over 3 feet shed no yellow birch outside and 20side; 3 white ash outside cto 25 inside; and 2 sugar mapleside with 82 inside. Beech, by ctrast, was about twice asauu.uu,,, •.•out~ide as ins ide .

'This knowledge of the effectsdeer browsing led us to studiestechniques for reducing browsingsure. Anexperimental electric freduced deer browsing in a 255-area; but the benefits were not scient to justify the cost.

'in 1966, we began a study ofcontrol through public hunting. Bytensive hunting we have attemptedreduce the deer density from aper 20-acres to a deer per 40-aThe hunting has proven succesand the reduction in br owsing haslowed a agreat increase in the grof hardwoods here.

"Desirable timber species,sugar maple, yellow birch, andash, have increased from 5in1963to 377 in 1968. This increhas provided an improvement inhabitat as well as in timber retion.

"Ultimately, we hope to detethe maximum number of deer theest can support while maintainingtimber and wildlife habitat values.fact, management of timber andare inseparable, and truly comhensive management requires thatknowledge of silviculture and demanagement be integrated in one stern. "

Leaving the beauty of theton Forest with some reluctancecars with NYFOA members heawestward 12miles through Long

and another 12 miles past the INTRODUCING NEW ASSOCIATEIsland Mill of Elliot Hardwood EDITOR NANCY CLARKE GRIDLEY

""","'r'd.!'LY where the Saturday morning~RTarn centered and 4 miles beyond

e Riverside Restaurant situatedacross from a spacious Conser-Department boat launching site.

- er a Dutch treat social hour andcellent steak dinner, PresidentStock introduced guests at thetable and in the audience, r ec -

the services of MembershipMrs. Luella B. Palmer,

ation; Emiel Palmer on Ar-ents; and Robert D. Greenleafman of the Program Commit-

Others attending included Robertes, Regional Manager Ameri-

Institute, Washington,and Mrs. Francis Derrr-.

• Chairman, New York State For-ctice Board, who spoke brief-

gar ding the Practice Board ac-

David L. Hanselman, Coor dr-of Educational Communications

ae College of Forestry, headingmotion picture team, explained

:::notionpictures taken that after-were intended for inclusion in

For eat Practice Act film now be-lieveloped with the cooperation of" wYork State Conservation De-ent, the New York State Forest

Board and the College ofstry. Director-Producer of theBernard T. Holtman, was in-edas one of the recentmembers

e Office of Public Service and_ •.•.•.•U""'!'; Education at the College of

y."ghlight of the Friday eveningprogram were illustrated slideon the Huntington Forest skill-pr epar ed by the Dir ector, Dr.F. Behrend, showing wildlifecially deer, through the sea-

morningmembers assemble for toures on site of Rock Island Mill

iot Hardwood Company 6 milesof Tupper Lake on Route 30.

(Editor's Note: It is with great pleas-ure that we present our new and tal-ented Associate Editor. )

Forest Owner:ProfessorCarlsonaskedme to in-

troduce myself to you here. I havebeen added to your Newsletter staff asan as s ociate editor.

Without giving a data-sheet kind ofrundown, let's just say I was born inNew York, raised mostly in Ohio,earnedaB. S. at Houghton (New York)College and an M. A. from SyracuseUniversity School of Journalsim, andwork inSyracuse. I am associate edi-tor of News For You, a weekly news-paper for adults with low readingskills. It is published by LaubachLiteracy, Inc., with which many ofyou might be acquainted.

My credentials for writing to for-est owners and interested parties arevery few- -nothing much more thancourses in geology and ecology in my

college General Science major. Soarticles, letters, suggestions, and--please! - -criticisms from more know-ledgeable readers are very welcome.

Fortunately Professor Carlson isstill the editor and guiding light ofForest Owner. I'm looking forward tolearning from him, and to meetingmany .rnor e readers in person.

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sons, - and by William C. Tierson,Forest Manager, on activities relatedto the forestry program. These twoexcellent talks were received with en-thusiasm.

Earlier in the evening from thewindows of the Riverside Restaurantthe golden glow of sunset settling overTupper Lake forecast another favor-able day on the morrow.

Next morning with 65 membershaving breakfast at the RiversideRestaurant, the 6th Fall meeting par-ticipants headed for the Rock IslandMill of the Elliot Hardwood Co. onLitchfield Park Corporation forestland, 4 miles down the road from therestaurant. Here JohnStock speakingfrom the back of a truck, welcomedAssociation members to LitchfieldPark Corporation where he serves asSuperintendent of forest lands on a28,000 acre multiple use forest.

John explained that the mill now inthe process of construction is a newtype designed to handle tree lengthlogs, with a bank of slasher sawsbreaking them into various compon-ents, best grade logs going for veneer,other log sections into high grade lum-ber, others for pulpwood, etc. Thenew operation results in a consider-able increase in the amount of usefulmaterial harvested from the forest,and better operating efficiency.

It is hoped and generally agreedthat the approximately one milliondollars in investment in new equip-

ment and procedures in log handlingwill provide a new thrust to more ef-fective forest harvesting, utilizationand forest management. It seemslikely that logs from some 200,000acres of timberland in the area maywell find their way to this center forimproved log handling and use.

Forest Owners then moved up anearby slope and noted with astonish-ment the thousands of logs already ac-cumulated in various piles, each pilecontaining logs graded according toanticipated use.

John Stock, President of NYFOAand host at the Rock Island Mill, out-lines operation of the million dollarinstallation for the harvesting, hand-ling and utilization of Adirondack'hardwoods at this location. John dida superb job in handling his assign-ments Friday evening and Saturdaymorning.

Once on top there was an astonish-ing medley of moving machinery -trucks with tree length Logs movingto the slasher, log handling equipmentremoving logs from the severalslasher compartments, and cranesraising logs onto the slasher - an im-pressive operation indeed!

At 10:30 a coffee break, courtesyof the Litchfield Park Corporation,provided opportunity to see the RokanTrail-Breaker, a low geared, heavytired two wheel motorcycle with abil-ity to negotiate up brushy slopes,move across low lying swampy areasand when properly equipped, as ap-proved by the Forest Service of theU. S. Department of Agriculture, cap-able of being used to convey forest firefighting equipment to remote forestsections.

By near noon, on Saturday morn-ing September 21 log hauling and loghandling equipment had been watched,

New mill at Rock Island site ofElliot Hardwood Co. to hous e Soder-hamn H-P Canter, a high speedhead-rig for converting low grade hardwoodlogs into lumber. This mill, to becompleted in the near future, is theonly one of its kind in. the Northeast.

On slope near the new mill underconstruction, big piles of logs clas si-fied for future use, dwarf visitingNYFOA members.

wondered at and admired. It was animpressive demonstration "in mater-ials handling equipment," to use aphrase from John Stock.

Throughout the two day and eveningmeeting there was a most cordial at-mosphere, many opportunities togreet old friends in NYFOA, and todiscover with pleasure new friendswith similar forest interests.

Special thanks are due to Don Beh-rend, Bill Tierson and their staff atthe Huntington Forest; Bob Greenleafand Woody Olmsted co-chairing theProgram Committee and securing theservices of Finch Pruyn to print thehandsome program; and to the met-iculous work of Luella B. Palmer whohandled registration so ably and ef-fectively, assisted by Second Vice

Crane swings tree length logs ontodeck of slasher saw operated frompush button point in shelter housewhere operator manipulates saws andmovement of logs.

President Ern iel Palmer.The Tupper Lake and Long Lake

areas were beginning to be spectacu-lar in their autumn forest robes. Thetwo days were so outstanding weather-wise, it was causing excited commentamong the Adirondack residents. Ourthanks are due all of you who found itpossible to venture forth on this oc-casion. May we have many an NYFOAFall Meeting like this one!

Abetted by such glowing autumnweather the 6th Fall Meeting of theNYFOA was a resounding success!

NYFOA members watch with fas-cinationas the operator in the controlroom facing a battery of saws, cutstree length logs into best possiblelength for maximum use. ACary Lift,in the foreground, clamps down on alog bundle and heads for a log pilewhere all the logs in that pile will beused for the same purpose.

CARLSON RELINQUISHES POST ASEXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTNYFOA

When NYFOA's first President,Ted Buckley, presently Sheriff ofWashington County, sought the aid ofthe then DeanHardy L. Shirley of theCollege of Forestry to secure a sec-retary for the newly organized NYFOA,Dean Sh.ir Iey asked Floyd Carlson ifhe would serve as secretary "for ayear or so. " The year stretched into4years and during the 5th year Floydwas made Executive Vice President.

On August 3, 1968 just five yearsto a day since he had first-been ap-pointed by the Board of Directors in1963, Floyd asked to be relieved ofhis responsibility as Executive VicePresident. The Board of Directorshas concurred.

Commenting upon his requestCarlson said "I will be retiring fromthe State University College of For-estry on August 31, 1969 les s than ayear from now.

"It is the wish of the recently ap-pointed Director ofthe Office of Pub-lic Service and Continuing Educationofth e College of Forestry that duringthis last year my time and servicesbe largely available to this Office, -a request in which I fully concur.While my successor has not yet beensecured I will remain available to himduring my many months prior to re-tirement. "

Floyd went on to say, "Eventuallyall successful ass ociations depend ona full time executive.

"Today State forestry associationsaround the nation count on the conti-nuity of a paid exe cutive, one who isin a position to devote full time to theneeds of the association's membersand objectives of the association.

"Among the forest owners of NewYork State are some of the finestpe ople in the country. I know this be-cause many of these forest ownersare now members of NYFOA. As I

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JENS HANSEN,SARATOGA COUNTY, TO HAVEWOODS WALK OCTOBER 26"Dear Fleyd:

"We cerdially invite any interestedNYFOA members to. come here fer aWeeds Walk en Saturday merning Oc-tobe r 26. This time we are alreadyassured of a minimum number neededfer a Weeds Walk.

"Our pr cpe r ty is anabandenedfarmwith a s ol id old s aItbox house whichis new our heme. When we first sawit in the fall of 1953, run down as itwas, we still thought it had geed pes-s ibi l it ies fer the future and the child-ren Iove d the place.

"About half of the 110 acres hadbeenfarmedand was grewing fast in-to. brush and saplings, the rest wascut ever weeds. We planted s orne8,000 seedlings m os t.ly f or Christmastrees which I trimmed several yearsand they grew into. a fine stand but wenever did get them marketed preperly.

"Under the guidance of the DistrictFerester I have carried out an FPAprogr am en several areas and in 1965

(centinued f'r om page 4)see it, allferest owne r s of New YerkState in general will benefit by the re-sults of a streng ferestry a s s oc iat ion.

"The whele pregram of ferestryand its dir ect ion in the futur e, to. no.small degree, depends en a st r ong ,vo ca l , well drr ecte d a s s oc i.ation, Ferit is my convi ct ion that there is a deepseated cons er vat ion interest in NewYor-k State, as great as anywhere inthe natien.

"Furthermere I am equally con-vinc ed that ferestry and pr oduct.i on ofweed cr ops en land suited to. ferestgrewthhas a future scarcely realized.In my opirrion we are only in the be-ginning stage of managing our for e s t s ,especially the haz-dwo ods , - fer thekind of wood ha rve st s and ether bene-fits they will ultimately pr ovi de ,

"After seeing the New Yor k FerestOwners Asseciatienpregress thr-ough5-l/2years of or gani aati on I believethe As s ociat ion fa ce s beth a challengeand exciting pe r iod oi grewth and ac-cemplishment. Already the NYFOAhas been making its mark en the fer-estry future of New Yor k State, andmust coritinue to. de so. in a greaterdegree in the future. "

After retirement f'r om the facultyof th e Col Ie ge of Ferestry, where hewill be serving in his 40th year,Fleyd's plans include travel, writingand lectures. Until then, he cont inue sto. serve as a member of the Beard ofDi r ect or s of NYFOA.

became a Tree ·Farmer."Last year with the help oi the

District Ferester we made a lightthinning en s orne 30 acres and s old136,000 beard feet of ha r dwood ands oftw ood Iog s mixed and about a hund-red cor ds of pulpwood,

"T 0. reach ou.r farm, fol.low CountyRoute No, 4, al ong the nor-th shor-e ofSagandaga Reserveir between Hadleyand Edinburg. At Day Center by Jur-gens Grill turn up Yates Hill Read.Our place is right en top of the hill,ab out 1/2 miles fr orn Reute No, 4.

"Hope to. see you here Saturdaymor-ning Octeber 26, at 10 a. m. !

Sincerely,(s igned) J ens"

Editer's Note : Please send your res-er vat ion fer the Jens Hansen WeedsWalk to. Hendrik W. variLo on , Chair-man, Cemmittee en Weeds Walks,120 Campus Rd. , Clinten, N.Y.13323,by Oct obe r 19 at the latest.

Feel free to. bring a neighber. Hemay want toj oi.n NYFOA! Be sure andbring yeur lunch. Be prepared ferWeeds Walk - snow, rain or shine!

LAND USE SEMINAR, NATIONALFOREST PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION

An ove r fl ow cr owd of representa-tives of land-based industries parti-cipated in NFPA's land use seminar,"Land and the American Peeple,"here yesterday. Nearly 50 land-usingindustries were represented, pluseducaters, land autherities, gevern-ment offi cial s , individual cornparrie s ,and a large de Ie ga.tion oi ferest in-dustry principals.

Russell H. Ells, Beard ChairmanefNFPA, presidedat the meeting. Hereminded these attending that an in-creasing pr opor-ti on oi the popul.a ti ontends to. view the land as a s our ce ofrest and recreatien rather than as anessential element in our natienal ec-onorni c presperity.

The seminar was highlighted by apr opos al to. establish a Natienal LandUse Institute as a rn ove t owar d estab-lishing better public understanding ofthe U. S. land base and its relatien-ship to. the public interest. MiIt on A.Pearl, Directer of the Public LandLaw Review Cornm is s iori, and Mer-timerB. Deyle, Executive Vice Pres-ident of NFPA, beth expressed theview that j oirit participatien by gev-ernment, land-using industries andcornmuni cat ioris media in such an er-ganizatien woul d irnpr ove public un-derstanding of land use matters andinfluence ev olut ion oi a s ound nat iona lland use pelicy.(Sour ce : Ferest Preducts NewsletterSeptember 6, 1968)

Here's a chance fer mere of thatfine fellewship of NYFOA'ers andwhat they are doing to. build the weedswealth of New Yerk State!

TRE WOODSWALK IS ADVENTURE!Every Weeds Walk spons or ed byNYFOAhas pr ove d to.be an adventure!Corne see fer yeurself! On this Har-old Tyler trail a spott ed fawn wassighted by the Walkers. Note talltimber beside trail.

"THREE THINGS, AND THREETHINGS ONLY, sustain life en thisplanet. Theyare--athinlayer of s oil ,a cove r ing of atrn os ph er e , and a littlerainfall. This is all that the geed Lor dhas given us except one thing: He hasgiven us a choice of what to. de with it.We can waste it, we can pellute it,we can neglect it, or we can cons er veit, and we can pass it al ong to. ourchildren, mere premising, mere a-bundant then we found it when we dis-cover ed America. "--President Lynden B. J'ohns on atde di cat ion of Eufaula Dam, Okla.

THE TEXAS FOREST ECONOMYThere are appreximately 150,000

woodl.and owne r s in Texas who, te-gether, own mere than 11.5 millienacres of cornrn er ci.al timberland.

Eighty per cent of these owne r sheld less than 100 acres each.

Any tax pol icy applicable to. oneowne r als 0. is applicable to. his neigh-ber,regardless of th e size ef the own-ership.

Texas timber-based activities pr c -vide empleyment fer 161,850 Texans.

Annual value oi shipments fr emTexas' primary timber manufacturingplants t ota l s ab out $211. 7 millien.

Annual shipments f r orn s econdar ymanufacturers total about $114.8m il Ii on, Each dellar f'r orn standing.trees adds $25 to. Texas' e coriornythreugh harvesting, manufacturing,cons tr uct ion, transpertatien and mar-keting.

NEWS OF YOUIt was a pleasure to see the fam-

iliar faces at the Fall Meeting and al-so to make the acquaintance of newmembers who were there. You areall most friendly and I enjoy workingwith you, and for you.

The following letter has just beenreceived from a charter member ofour As s ociation:"Dear Mrs. Palmer,

"It is with reluctance that I am re-signing from the New York ForestOwners Association, but at the ageof 90 years and no longer in controlof the woodlands, as I was in formeryears to a considerable extent, I feelit the part of wisdom to resign."I am glad to see how well the As-

sociation has grown and trust that itwill go on to greater usefulnes s -which our- heirs may be able to availthemselves of.

Sincerely yours,(signed) Hilda Loine s "The QuarterdeckBolton LandingNew York 12814

Some of our new members are:DeWitt Fish & Game Club, Inc.

(Onondaga) - DeWittJerry Tomenga (Chenango) Civil

Engineer from Port ByronLimestone Creek Hunt (Onondaga)

ManliusMr. & Mrs. Willis B. Waite

(Chautauqua) - DelhiHarold H. Clum (Albany) -

ChappaquaAdirondack Museum Library -

Blue Mountain LakeMr. & Mrs. George B. Stock

(Onondaga) - CamillusGrace Leach Hudowalski - Albany

Mrs. Luella B. Palmer

President: John W. StockTupper Lake, N. Y. 12986

Editor: Floyd E. CarlsonCollege of ForestrySyracuse, N. Y. 13210

As s ociate Editor:Nancy Clarke Gridley1021 Westcott St.Syracuse, N. Y. 13210

Treasurer-Membership SecretaryMrs. Luella B. Palmer157 Ballantyne Rd.Syracuse, N. Y. 13205

MAY 2 91~tJ

~UNY COLLF:GE (''=ENVIRONr/lENTl\L SC,_:~CE

AND FORESTRY

AN IMPORTANT NOTICE!With the following November issue

Nancy Clarke Gridley becomes fullEditor of the Forest Owner.

Each of you are asked to write thenew Editor, to send in clippings of in-terest to Forest Owners and to other-wise share your views and experiencein woods and forest ownership withother members of NYFOA.~-So! Please give our hew Editor a

great big lift!Nothing you could do would make

Nancy feel more welcome in her newassignment than to hear from you!

Don't worry about your writing -Nancy will see that whatever gets sentin will get proper and tender editorialtreatment!

Mail your copy to Miss NancyClarke Gridley, 1021 Westcott St.,'Syz-a cus e , N. Y. 13210, so that Nancycan receive it by the 10th of the month.

Please start moving your copy forthe Forest Owner right away!

NEWS NOTEOnSunday, September 8th, twenty-

two members of the Albany Chapterof the Adirondack Mountain Club hada conducted tour of Cooxrox Forest,got "the work" about Larch.

Confucious says that "one pictureis worth a thousand words;" wonderwhat a look at the real thing could beworth, on a magnificent fall day!

David B. Cook

WEYERHAEUSER CORPORATIONhas hired a full-time manager to over-see the expansion of public outdoorrecreation facilities on its 3.7 mil-lion acres of domestic timberland.Roadside parks, picnic areas andcampgrounds with paved streets areamong the facilities planned.

PLANTATION-GROWNRED PINE FOR POLES

Plantation-grown red pinecreasing in commerCial imporas several plantations develop ming stands of timber. Some ofstands have been in existence forwards of half a century which methat the trees have reached sawber or pole size.

A recent study undertaken atOttawa Forest Products Laborathas i1'ldicated no difference in strbetween plantation- gr own and nagrown red pine poles for powercommunication use.

At the same time, red pine ctinues to grow in natural stands ova large area of Canada. The ForProducts Laboratory has long ago developed strength data on the naturproduct, and codes and specificatfor red pine poles and timber ref!these data.

The same data are not availableplantation- grown red pine and thisleaves some doubt in the mind of thepotential user as to whether or not heshould accept the plantation pron the same basis as the product whigrew naturally.

The poles used in thefrom four Ontario plantations andwere provided by the Ontario Depart-ment of Lands and Forests. The ageof the plantations ranged from 3450 years and the circumference ofpoles ranged from 36 to 43 inches athe butt, after/machine shaving.(Source: Research News, Dept. ofForestry and Rural Development -Canada May-June, 1968)