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purchases forest land. There seems to be no limit to 

 the ferocity of the organized timberman against forest 

 land acquisition. 



Fry: Did the National Lumber Manufacturing Association ever 

 join forces with livestock associations to help fight 

 grazing regulations, to your knowledge? 



Granger: I can t recall any such alliance. 



The Vest Coast Lumbermens 1 Association, now merged 

 with the Western Pine Association, achieved a more 

 rational stance when W. B. Greeley in 1928 resigned as 

 Chief of the Forest Service to become Executive Vice- 

 president of the WCLA. Greeley saw an opportunity to im 

 prove the economic conditions affecting the timber in 

 dustry in the Douglas fir region to the point where they 

 could practice forestry. Whenever he had occasion to 

 oppose or criticize the Forest Service it was on a 

 respectable level. 



The organized pulp and paper manufacturers have 

 usually been considerably less hostile than the lumber 

 men in their opposition or pressures. For one thing, 

 the operators of pulp and paper mills are usually only 

 to a small degree dependent on national forest timber. 

 Furthermore, in my opinion, the men who decide the 

 policies of the pulp and paper associations are on the 



