The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-04-20
Committee on Sustained Yield Program
Points Out Greet Benefits To Be Derived

Recently the Permanent Commit
tee on Sustained Yield was formed
from representative from organiza-
tons in Lincoln county. Under the
able guidance of Carlton Joughin,
who is the representative from the
Commercial Club, the group pre-
pared and issued six page mimeo-
graphed letter explaining the pur-
pose and goal of the program.
In the introduction IF the letter
Mr.. Joughin states, With the rapid
cutting of timber in the Northwest,
and the ghost towns that have ap-
peared in the last 20 years in north
ern Idaho and western Montana, we
have begun to think seriously of
how long our community can exist
under the present method of mer-
chandising and cutting of our main
natural resource-timber.'
1T is generally agreed that 85
per cent of the money received in
this community comes directly, or
indirectly, from timber and its pro .
cessing We have begun to see that
odl IQlAlG litaSl DE Rlol1Lh1a b1
judicious and regulated cutting of
our timber if our community is to
last into the future for any length of
time
Further along in the letter the
plan of a private company acquir-
ing all of the timber and cutting it
on a sustained yield basis is dis
cussed along with reasons why this
plan would be inadvisable. There
fore, we have thought it best that
the government purchase, or invest,
in enough privately owned timber
to guarantee the fulfillment of the
sustained yield program plan"
The sustained yield plan has been
in the minds of many people in this
district for number of years The
idea is not new. At the present
time Senate Bill S-266 has been in
troduced by Senator McNary and
has been read twice and referred to
the Committee on Agriculture and
Forestry. The bill follows:
To promote sustained-yield forest
management in order thereby (a) to
stabilize communities forest indus
tries, employment, and taxable for
est wealth, (b) to assure continu-
Gus and ample supply of forest
products; and (c) to secure the ben
efits of forests in regulation, ameli-
grafton Of climate, and preservation
of Wildlife
Be it Enacted by the Senate and
House of Representative of the
United States of America in Con
gress Assembled, that to promote
the stability of forest-using indus
tries, employment, and commune
ties through continuous supplies oil
I timber, the Secretary of Agricul-
/ ture is authorized, when he deems
such action in the public interest
/ to make cooperative agreements
with other willing landowners for
/ the coordinate management includ-
ing but not limited to time, rate
and method of cutting of timber and
/ forest growth on sustained yielc
units located wholly or partly with
/ in national forests The Secretary
/ is further authorized to determine
define, and declare formally the es.
Enlistment of sustained-yield units
comprising the land areas covered
by such cooperative agreements
and such other lands as may rea
sonably be expected to be later in
Guided under such agreements II
each such cooperative agreemen
the privateg or public owner con
cerned shall agree, in consideration
IT'D of the assured privilege Of pur
chasing national forest timber O.
other products within the unit con
cerned pursuant to this section, O
A (2) of the benefits to be obtained
by having the owners lands man
aged for sustained yield as a par
of the unit involved, or of both sucl
privilege and benefit, to limit thei
cut to the productive capacity Q
the lands involved as determines
by the contracting parties and ap
proved by the Secretary of Agri
culture, and to otherwise compl.
with the other conditions and re
; quirements of such cooperative
agreement. Each cooperative agree
ment entered into hereunder shal
also expressly provide that any priv
! ilege, benefit, or control conferre
by its terms shall not extend be
) yond the period the agreement re
| mains in full force and effect, an
: shall prescribe terms and condition
! under which the owner may Sc
timber or other forest products Il
! Gated upon said owners land, witt
! in the unit involved to any othe
: person; and shall require that eac
: contract of sale made by the owne
} shall obligate the purchaser to con
r ply with such conditions and II
c quirements; and the owner or til
/ Secretary Of Agriculture, as ma
c be mutually agreed, shall take al
G propriate action to secure such con
e pliance.
/. Sec. 2. That the Secretary Of Al
q riculture shall cause each coope
r alive agreement entered into und'
c authority of this section to be place
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