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off the cut-over land as of no further value. But 

 the idea of sustained yield forestry on private lands 

 slowly developed until the larger operators began 

 acquiring extensive tracts bearing well-established __ 

 young growth. One member of the faculty of the 

 School of Forestry at Oregon State University is 

 said to have made a million dollars by picking up 

 cheaply tracts of young growth and later selling 

 them to the big private operators. 



I don t claim any credit for this development, 

 most of which occurred after my tenure as District 

 Forester. It was chiefly a matter of economics, 

 along with closer utilization and other advanced 

 practices, but I am glad to have been one of the 

 prophets. 



While private owners were still writing off 

 their cut -over land, the Forest Service was able to 

 acquire considerable areas of it by exchange 

 usually granting cutting rights on national forest 

 timber for an equal value of cut-overs. C. J. 

 Buck, who later became District Forester, was in 

 charge of this activity and he was a canny trader. 

 The cut-over land was usually valued by us on the 

 basis of the stand of reproduction or more advanced 



