Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-12-04
Excerpts From,
Conservation
Paper
BY Mrs. Garland, Read Before the
Portia Club.

When we are told that there is or
ly enough timber left to last 8
: years, it can readily be seen tha
! fer cur own interest the State o
Nation must soon interfere. Tw,
) states have established precedent
which are significant of the trend o
| pubic opinion towards European
methods Of forest administration. II
New York we have the first example
OF a privately owned reserve under
state control and the Supreme CCurt
of Maine rendered decision in a
hypothetical case, that the State can
regulate the cutting of privately
iowned woodlands. Four fifths OF
our timber lands are in private own
ership and only one third of tree
IS utilized in our present wastesul
! system of numbering. In the manu-
facture Of sawed lumber and it's
uses by the industries 81 per cent
of the wood which grew in the tree
is lest. Upon the first principle of
forestry, that of using the present
supply economically, cur krowlcdge
is altogether too limited and our
practice entirely Inadequate
The principles which underl:e the
intelligent use Of a valuable resource
like the forest are to use it e2onom-
ically and if possible renew the SUP
ply. Fortunately the forest, unlike
the minerals, is a renewable re-
source. On the Pacific Coast, where
the Forest Service has investigated
the matter it found the less due to-
the non-manufacture of odd lengths
of planning mills to be 81 per cent
of material which PISSED through the
machines. For Washington and
Oregon alone this means fifteen
million feet of the highest grade OF
material each year.
1t is the demand of custom, rather
than buy four foot boards, the Amer
can citizen prefers to get twelve
or sixteen foot boards and saw into
'our foot lengths. A concerted moe
nent is now on foot among lumber
on the Pacific Coast
o put odd lengths of lumber on TIE
market and it is an important step
n forest conservation.
During my six months stay en- the :
Pacific Coast this year, thsre wes I
10 one thing that impressed me as
lid the waste of lumber. Practically :
IL the fuel used in the city Of Salem, ,
f about 10000 Inhabitants, comes
rom the lumber yards This is de-
ivered to consumers cut for stove
ength but it is from lumber of ey- ,
nv conceivable dimension. all with !
quare edges and of quality that !
Yould make an eastern lumber man ,
old up his hands in horror at the h
cry thought of such material going ,
D make kitchen fire.
In the forest | saw tress that had !.
cen felled and LETT to decay, that ,
$ | stood beside them as they lay ;,
n the ground. the trunk was above !.
~ head.
And while this waste is goicg on >,
n the Pacific Coast let me tell you
hat they are doing on the Atlantic ;,
cast. They are planting the pine !,
eed and tending those little seed 9
ngs as carefully as the florist tends ;
IS choicest plants. Net far from ;,
" home was one of these pine tree :,
urseries and l have visited it
nmber of times. There are acres
lat are covered with sort of lat
ce work to protect these seedlings
ON the heat and storms and at
rst glance it looks like a huge on
N bed of a few weeks growth for "
ees that are two and three years
d are only from three to five inch
, high and when we think that 1t
.kes from 80 to 40 years to grow !,
ese trees large enough to cut In !,
lumber we should realize the ne
,ssity of guarding against this for "
t waste. In the east when pine Z,
nber lot is cut off it never comes d
lck again to its own hind but VIII =,
,rout up to oak and birehes and d
her deciduous trees and today there u
Q a great many acres of sprout land
ing set to pine. 81
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