TRI-STATE CONFERENCE 



In a paper delivered before the Tri-State 

 Land Development Conference in Milvirau- 

 ikee on March 2d and 3rd, Col. W. B. 

 Greeley declared that the Lake States 

 present one of the most striking examples 

 in all history of the depletion of forest 

 [resources and the wiping out of forest 

 industries due to the idleness of cutovcr 

 [lands. 



"The forest and cutover lands of the 

 Lake States," Col. Greeley said, "would 

 support permanent forest industries much 

 more extensive than those still remaining 

 and with annual products much more than 

 ample for all local requirements if all of 

 the land not needed for other economic 

 uses were kept continuously at work grow- 

 ing trees. But at present over 20 million 

 acres of land in Michigan, Wisconsin and 

 Minnesota, which formerly grew timber, 

 is now unused and growing nothing; and 

 other enormous areas are producing but 

 half a crop." 



"One of the things which is to be most 

 clearly recognized," he said, "is that grow- 

 ing wood must be made a part of agricul- 

 tural science in the United States, as it 

 has been in countries of longer experience, 

 to be fitted into and correlated with the 

 rest of our agriculture in the same way as 

 we correlate orchards and livestock with 

 the production' of field crops." 



The Tri-State Development Congress is 

 an organization with delegates from the 

 States of Minnesota, Michigan and Wis- 

 consin. Its object is to coordinate the 

 policies of the three states in the develop- 

 ment and handling of the immense areas 

 of cutover lands in those states. ResoTu- 

 tions were passed setting forth the prin- 

 ciples for which the conference stands. 

 Those pertaining to forestry are as follows : 



"A vital part of any program of state 

 development is an adequate, well-consid- 

 ered vigorous state forestry policy. As 

 essential features of such a policy we sub- 

 mit: First, efficient measures to prevent 

 forest fires that the lives of settlers may 

 be guarded and mature and growing timber 

 saved; second, reforestation of all state- 

 owned lands shown by land classification 

 to be non-agricultural ; third, state acqui- 

 sition of non-agricultural lands by gift, 

 purchase or forfeiture for reforestation; 

 fourth, immediate reforestation of all pub- 

 lic lands on the shores of lakes and stream,s 

 and state encouragement of reforestation 

 of privately owned lands of similar nature ; 

 fifth, conservative and supervised logging 

 on state and private lands and a wiser, 

 more economic use of forest products ; 

 sixth, expert advice for the farmer on the 

 management of his woodlot and state en- 

 jcouragement of the preservation and propa- 

 gation of valuable native trees; seventh. 



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particular attention to the conservation 

 and propagation of timber for pulpwood ; 

 eighth, imposition of stumpage tax, in lieu 

 of annual taxes, upon growing timber in- 

 cluding woodlots; ninth, the enactment of 

 special legislative measures for the relief 

 of extensive regions whose development is 

 retarded by loss of tax revenue through 

 existence within their confines of large 

 public forests. The passage by the legis- 

 latures of the three states of such laws as 

 will assist school and road development 

 in their territories by sufficient state aid 

 to oflfset this loss in revenue." 



The Conference also passed strong res- 

 olutions endorsing the conservation of wild 

 life and the conservation and development 

 of the agricultural resources of the three 

 states. It unequivocally condemned the 

 sale of poor, inaccessible or non-agricul- 

 tural cutover land to settlers. It endorsed 

 the Mapes Bill, which provides for the 

 establishment of a forest experiment sta- 

 tion in the Lake States. 



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BLISTER RUST QUARANTINE 

 EXTENDED 



By an order of Secretary of Agriculture 

 Wallace, effective March 15, the Federal 

 quarantine to protect the white-pine forests 

 of the west against the further spread of 

 the blister rust has been extended to in- 

 clude the State of Washington. In view 

 of the State quarantine, which became 

 effective March 1, the Federal restrictions 

 will apply to the interstate shipment of 

 white pines, currant and gooseberry plants 

 from the infested areas of the State only. 



The infested area includes the following 

 counties lying west of the crest of the 

 Cascade Mountains : Clallam, Clarke, Cow- 

 litz, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, 

 Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, San 

 Juan, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish, Thurs- 

 ton, Wahkiakum, and Whatcom. The 

 Secretary reserves the right to extend or 

 reduce the infested area if it is found neces- 

 sary to do so. 



AIR SEASONING OF WOOD 



In cooperation with the sawmills and 

 wood utilization plants ^throughout the 

 country, the Forest Products Laboratory, 

 Madison, Wisconsin, is organizing an ex- 

 tensive field study on the air seasoning of 

 wood. This study, it is belisved, will be 

 of extreme interest to the lumber manu- 

 facturer and to the wood-using industries. 

 The purpose is to determine the piling 

 practice which will result in the fastest 

 drying rates consistent with the least de- 

 preciation of stock, the least amount of 

 required yard space, and the least hand- 

 ling costs. The study will be carried on 

 concurrently on both hardwoods and soft- 

 woods. All the important commercial 

 woods of the United States will eventually 

 receive consideration. 



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