Industrial Forestry Associations 



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assists them whenever assistance is 

 wanted, but each program is locally 

 sponsored and directed. Localizing 

 such projects has the effect of drawing 

 more people into partnership for forest 

 progress; it is education by partici- 

 pation. 



IN CONCLUSION: The contribution 

 of these and other organized industrial 

 groups to the forest progress of the 

 United States is doubtless larger than 

 the size of their staffs and extent of 

 their expenditures would indicate. 

 They came into the field of forest man- 

 agement in response to a definite need. 

 Their influence upon memberships and 

 associates has been direct and constant. 

 Many private industries have estab- 

 lished their own forestry departments 

 as a result of the work of the association 

 to which they contributed financially. 

 Foresters in the employ of associations, 

 in many instances, have introduced 

 private companies to the practical ad- 

 vantages of a forestry program. 



Progress in industrial forestry has 

 been marked. In 1933, the Copeland 

 Report estimated that less than 5 per- 

 cent of cutting on privately owned 

 lands was done with provision for the 

 renewal of the forest. Thirteen years 

 later, the Forest Service reported that 

 cutting practices on all privately owned 

 forest lands were 28 percent fair, 7 

 percent good, and 1 percent of high or- 

 der. The improvement is more marked 

 in ownerships of more than 50,000 

 acres, most of which are industrial for- 

 ests. In that class of ownership, 39 per- 

 cent of cutting is rated fair, 24 percent 

 good, and 5 percent of high order. 



Sustained-yield management had 

 been applied to less than 1 percent of 

 the privately owned forest area, the 

 Copeland Report said in 1933. The 

 1946 report of the Forest Service con- 

 sidered that 22.4 percent of all private 

 holdings were under extensive manage- 

 ment, and 0.6 percent under intensive 

 management. In this respect industrial 

 holdings again made a relatively better 

 record. The management status of lum- 

 ber company holdings is rated as 32.2 



percent extensive and 3.4 percent in- 

 tensive. The management status of 

 pulp company holdings is rated as 66.7 

 percent extensive and 2.6 intensive. 



A direct comparison of the most re- 

 cent Forest Service reappraisal with 

 the Copeland Report is not statistically 

 possible because methods, standards, 

 and thoroughness of the two surveys 

 are not identical. Yet findings indicate 

 a striking change for the better in 13 

 years. Many factors contributed to that 

 progress. Among those factors, the in- 

 fluence of industrial forestry associa- 

 tions looms large. 



CHAPIN COLLINS is a native of 

 Seattle. He was graduated from the 

 University of Washington in 1921. 

 After a year of graduate study, he 

 worked on various daily newspapers 

 and in 1927 bought the Montesano 

 Vidette in Grays Harbor County, 

 Wash. In his newspaper office, in a dis- 

 cussion among several interested men, 

 the Tree Farm idea was born and be- 

 came a reality with the dedication of 

 the nearby demons Tree Farm, owned 

 by the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Since 

 then, the Tree Farm project has as- 

 sumed national proportions. After serv- 

 ice in the Army, Mr. Collins joined the 

 staff of the American Forest Products 

 Industries in Washington, D. C., in 

 1943, and became its director in 1945. 

 He resigned in 1948 to return to 

 Montesano. 



CORRELATION OF GRADE OF CUTTING WITH 

 SUSTAINED YIELD, UNITED STATES, 1945 



Percentage of acreage in 

 each cutting class that 

 was also on sustained 

 yield 



High 



Ownership class order Good Fair 



public: Percent Percent Percent 



National forests 93 68 ^ 



Other Federal loo 61 47 



State and local 23 44 35 



Private: 



Large holdings 98 86 3 6 



Medium holdings. ... 68 46 16 



