The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-01

If a reasonable share of the trees
planted this year by the boys Of the
CCC camps in the Superior National
Forest live and do well, fifty years
from now they will contain 318 ,056, 900
board feet of lumber. Counting them
at SO per thousand feet, they win be
worth more than 100000 say the
Forest officials.
The boys planted $3.50 acres at the
rate of about 300 trees to the acre.
The early snow prevented their plant
ing many thousand more, for which
they had "scalped" spots in the forest
duff. The total number Of trees
planted was 6,879, 200, according to re-
ports of rangers. Experimental plant
ings made many years ago in New York
state were found to have produced
81 900 board feet per acre in fifty years
and $4,000 board feet in sixty years.
Borings taken from trees in the SUI
perior Forest indicate that they have
grown about as fast.
OF course, planting trees is not all
the work the boys have done. They
built most of the camps they occupy.
Also they have built many district
headquarters buildings, rangers cabins
and lookout towers, toolhouses and
other structures that will remain as
permanent assets to the forests.
According to the reports of rangers.
in October the boys did about "57
varieties" of work. Among them are
the building of telephone lines, the
cutting and clearing of firebreaks, the
removal of fire hazards in downtown
areas, the clearing Of roadsides and
trailsides, the improvement of forest
stands the building of roads, trails.
highways and bridges, fences, water
supply systems for permanent and tenn
porary camps, nursery construction,
planting and improvement, insect dis
ease and rodent control, seed collection,
surveys of various kinds, erosion and
flood control.
They have cleared and improved
several free public camping grounds,
improved portages and put streams in
condition to produce more trout.
During October typical camp re-
moved fire hazards from seven acres.
built 3.75 miles of telephone line and
1.6 miles of truck trail, cut and cleared
half a mile of, firebreak, improved the
timber stand on twenty-five acres,
built mile of foot trail, planted 825
acres of trees, spent 1886 man-days
fighting fires, and protected most Of
their planting from rodent injury.
Christmas trees and evergreen boughs
for Yuletide decoration "cut to i'm
prove the timber" in the National
Forests of the North Central Region
are being placed on the market this
year by the q. s. Forest Service in
time for the holiday season, according
to Forester Tinker.
Red tags bearing the shield of the
Federal Forest Service will be attached
to the trees to identify them as pro-
ducts of the National Forests. One
side of the tag carries the message
This tree brings Christmas message
from the great outdoors. Its cut
ting was not destructive but gave
needed room for neighboring trees to
grow faster and better. It was cut
under the supervision of the q. 8.
Forest Service from a crowded stand.
The other side of the tag states that
The prevention of forest fires through
the past years has made it possible for
this tree to decorate your home on
Christmas Day."
Trees and boughs will be sold by the
Forest Supervisors at Duluth and Cass
Lake. Minnesota; Park Falls and
Rhinelander, Wisconsin; East Tawas
and Munising, Michigan, and inquiries
should be addressed to them. The
trees may be purchased standing and
cut by the purchaser after designation
by forest officer. or may be obtained
on truck road after they have been
cut and carried out under forest SER
vice supervision. In many places the
Christmas trees win be thinned out of