Industrial Forestry Associations 



pendable protection against forest fire. 



2. Adoption of forest practices, by 

 all forest owners and operators, to in- 

 sure continuous production of timber. 



3. Encouragement of private owner- 

 ship of forest lands that can be profit- 

 ably managed, including a national 

 land policy to include the sale and ex- 

 change of public lands in order to re- 

 store desirable lands to private owner- 

 ship as well as to consolidate public 

 holdings. 



4. Encouragement of public owner- 

 ship and management of forest lands 

 incapable of producing enough wood 

 to permit profitable private ownership. 



5. Equalization of State and local 

 taxes on forest lands. 



6. Support of competent State for- 

 estry organizations to manage State- 

 owned forest lands and to enforce State 

 laws relating to privately owned forest 

 lands. 



7. Support of public regulation 

 where necessary or desirable under 

 State law. 



8. Cooperation with public and pri- 

 vate agencies to control forest insects 

 and diseases. 



9. More complete utilization of for- 

 est products. 



Within the framework of the Forest 

 Industries Council, various State com- 

 mittees have been formed under the 

 name of Forest Industries Information 

 Committees. Most of the committees, 

 as their name implies, undertake infor- 

 mational work, but some have engaged 

 in forestry promotional activities. 



Among the latter are committees in 

 Idaho, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The 

 Idaho committee was responsible for 

 launching the Keep Idaho Green pro- 

 gram by the Junior Chamber of Com- 

 merce in 1946. It has worked with 4-H 

 Clubs to develop a tree-planting pro- 

 gram in cooperation with the State ex- 

 tension service. Committee members 

 have been active in such projects as 

 tussock moth control and in legislative 

 matters relating to forestry. 



The Wisconsin committee initiated 

 the Wisconsin system of industrial for- 

 ests in 1944. It is somewhat similar to 



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the Tree Farm program, but such areas 

 are restricted to industrial holdings of 

 1,000 acres or more. Originally, 200,- 

 000 acres of managed lands were regis- 

 tered, but the acreage has increased to 

 411,000 acres. Most of the lands are in 

 conifers for pulp consumption, but 

 about 70,000 acres are in hardwoods. 

 Most of the forestry matters of the 

 Northern Hemlock and Hardwood 

 Manufacturers Association are referred 

 to the Wisconsin Forest Industries In- 

 formation Committee, largely because 

 of its broader representation. 



In Minnesota, the Forest Industries 

 Information Committee initiated the 

 Keep Minnesota Green program, now 

 directed by the State's Keep Green 

 Committee. The Information Com- 

 mittee has conducted a continuing 

 public forest-information program and 

 sponsored State legislation relative to 

 forestry subjects. Among such meas- 

 ures has been an act to permit the 

 State to grow and sell forest nursery 

 stock at cost, another to provide for- 

 estry aid to owners of small woods. 



AMERICAN FOREST PRODUCTS IN- 

 DUSTRIES, INC., as an instrument of 

 education in forest subjects, started in 

 1941. Although an offshoot of the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers Asso- 

 ciation, it recognized that all forest in- 

 dustries, whatever their products, have 

 trees in common, and so its program 

 included not only lumber manufac- 

 turers but makers of pulp and paper, 

 ?lywood, and other forest products, 

 n 1946, AFPI was reorganized to give 

 it a status independent of any single 

 type of forest industry. Its direction 

 is vested in trustees representing the 

 subscribers. 



AFPI began with a national sur- 

 vey of public opinion, which revealed 

 some public misconceptions regarding 

 forests and forest products. Despite 

 rapid advances in wood utilization, 

 large segments of the public thought 

 of wood as an outmoded, old-fashioned 

 product, and of the forests as some- 

 thing belonging to the past. There was 

 little realization that, through man- 



