UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 FOR EST SERVICE 



&rorn tho Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 



San Francisco Office ) 



MODELS SHOW 

 PROPER LUMBEEING 



T\vo models v;hich show how the government sells its timbe r 

 have just been prepared in Washington for display at the Forest 

 Products Exposition to "be held in Chicago April 30 to Kay 9 and in 



York May to 30. Those models represent an acre of western 

 yellow pine land in a national forest of the Southwest, before and 

 after logging, 



In the model showing the stand before the lumberman goes 

 into it the trees range from those only a few years old to large, 

 over-mature, stag-headed individuals more than ready for the axe. 

 In the second model the mature trees and all others larger than a 

 certain diameter have been cnt down and made into logs and cor " T * r ood, 

 In this, as in all government sales, the stumps arc cut low, to avoi 

 unnecessary waste, logs are taken to a small diameter 'veil up into 

 the tree, and such material as is not fit for lumber is converted 

 into cordwood. Together, the models show the care which the govern- 

 ment requires of lumbermen in felling old trees so that the joung 

 growth is not injured. The brush is piled in heaps for burning a *r 

 the lumber has been removed, in order that the fire menace which foi 

 esters say usually follows lumbering may be done away with. The 

 models are on a scde of about one inch to five feet, so thr.t trees 

 ^.ppr ox irately 100 feet tall are about 20 inches high in the models. 



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