Industrial Forestry Associations 



Provinces by United States pulp mills. 



Most pulp mills are cutting for con- 

 tinuous yield on their own lands and 

 are educating contractors and other 

 suppliers to the advantages of follow- 

 ing good practices. 



Foresters in company employ, be- 

 cause of increased freight rates, labor 

 costs, and other factors, are analyzing 

 the costs of pulpwood on the basis of 

 transportation to varying distances. 

 Those costs are being balanced against 

 the costs of growing wood under inten- 

 sive forest management near the mills. 

 Frequently a large favorable balance 

 rests with the production of wood near 

 mills. 



Under the stress of war conditions in 

 1945, management status of pulp com- 

 panies, with respect to forest lands, was 

 rated by the Forest Service (in The 

 Management Status of Forest Lands in 

 the United States, Forest Service 1946, 

 Report 3 tables 2 and 16) as follows: 

 14.5 million of the 14.8 million acres 

 were being operated with cutting prac- 

 tices rated 82 percent fair or better. 

 The ratings were high, 3 percent ; good, 

 30 percent; and fair, 49 percent. 



For comparison of various types of 

 ownership, forests under extensive or 

 better management were rated as fol- 

 lows: Pulp company forests, 69.3 per- 

 cent; all private holdings, 23 percent; 

 public forests, 72.8 percent. 



The rating of the pulp companies 

 was three times as good as that of all 

 private holdings and close to that of 

 public forests, indicating that pulp and 

 paper mills are thoroughly aware of 

 the necessity for looking to their wood 

 supply on a sustaining basis. The high 

 investment in a pulp mill practically 

 compels it. 



THE SOUTHERN PULPWOOD CON- 

 SERVATION ASSOCIATION was organized 

 by the pulp and paper industry in the 

 South in 1939. Its member companies 

 consume about 90 percent of all the 

 pulpwood cut in the region. Its pur- 

 pose was expressed thus : 



"To formulate and promulgate by 

 educational means a practical program 



of utilization and conservation of the 

 forest resources of the South, in order 

 to assure the prevention of a timber 

 shortage with a consequent dire effect 

 upon the pulp and other forest in- 

 dustries involving the welfare of the 

 South and of the Nation, (a) by vol- 

 untary application of sound principles 

 of forest practices recognized and 

 accepted by the membership, and (b) 

 by a program of education directed to 

 forest owners and operators and to the 

 public." 



The services of the association have 

 been made available to independent 

 landowners, wood suppliers, and to the 

 general public without any distinction. 

 The services are concerned chiefly with 

 growing more timber, preventing fires, 

 and cutting wisely. 



The association now employs 20 

 field men to carry on its educational 

 activities and demonstrations in the 

 field. The demonstrations are for wood 

 growers, suppliers, and labor. They 

 show proper cutting, tree planting, and 

 improved methods of fire fighting and 

 prevention. In 1947, although the pro- 

 gram was new, the 245 demonstrations 

 were attended by more than 4,000 per- 

 sons. Association employees also check 

 pulpwood cuttings on noncompany 

 lands to determine results of the asso- 

 ciation's cutting standards. 



Forestry training camps, sponsored 

 by the association in 8 of the 10 States 

 of its territory, have helped train farm 

 youth in the fundamentals of forestry. 

 Selected boys spend a week in camp 

 to learn how to handle a timber crop 

 on their own woodlands. 



The association reports its activities 

 by radio and newspapers and other 

 publications, including a periodical, 

 The Unit. It has published, and keeps 

 current, Mechanizing Southern Forest 

 Fire Fighting, which contains the 

 latest information on the subject. It 

 also published a Mechanization Man- 

 ual. Among the films it has produced 

 are several on pine planting, natural 

 pine reseedings, and forest fire. Its 

 portable exhibits and posters have been 

 widely used. 



