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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis) 



The most wonderful of all forest trees in the State of 

 Washington. 



We supply the seed of this famous tree. For 45 years 

 we have made a speciality of all forest tree seed of the 

 Pacific Coast of America. 



Write for catalogs and prices. 



The Manning Seed Company 



Roy, nV^ asnington U. S. A. 



VAST TIMBER AREA OPENED 



The largest compact body of yellow pinei 

 timber owned by the govermnent is to bj 

 opened for sale and development, accor 

 ing to an announcement by the Fore 

 Service. This is in line with the Fe 

 eral policy of putting the forests of on 

 country to their highest use, instead o| 

 locking up valuable timber resources 

 that they are of no benefit to the .XmeriJ 

 can people. 



This new timber region is on the water- 

 shed of the Silvies River, in the Malheur 

 National Forest of eastern Oregon. It 

 covers an area of 550,000 acres and con- 

 tains nearly seven billion feet of mature | 

 sawtimber. 



Government foresters have worked out 

 a plan of management for this stand of 1 

 timber that provides a continuous per- j 

 petual supply of raw material for a lum- 

 ber manufacturing industry to be located'^ 

 in the vicinity of Burns, Oregon, and ca- 

 pable of using from 50 to 60 million feet j 

 of logs annually. 



The first block of this timber to be I 

 placed on the market is located on the 

 Bear Valley watershed of the Silvies 

 River, Malheur National Forest, near 

 Burns, Oregon. The stand is estimated to j 

 contain 890 million feet of western yellow 

 pine, Douglas fir, and lodg^ole pine,, 

 which will be opened for logging develop- 1| 

 ment under Government regulations. 



Tributary to the Bear Valley area an 

 virgin forests containing over six billiofl 

 feet of merchantable timber which will 

 be available for future cutting. These ^ 

 timber units contain the finest and mojl 

 extensive forests of yellow pine own 

 by the Government. They will be so 

 veloped. Federal experts say, that und 

 the plan of management proposed thel 

 forests will produce an inexhaustible! 

 supply of timber. 



INSECTS MENACE FORESTS 

 Although forest fires are considered, andij 

 undoubtedly are, the greatest menace to 

 the timbered and cut over area of this 

 State, says a report from Michigan, we 

 must not lose sight of the fact that the dep-j 

 redations of wood and leaf eating inse 

 fungi growth and disease constitute a meii'^ 

 ace of great proportions. 



One eminent authority has stated, that,| 

 "Within the next ten years, Michigan 

 would not have a standing stick of tamaH 

 rack," giving as his reason the destructive 

 instincts of the saw fly. Thousands of| 

 acres are now infested with this destruc-j 

 tive pest attacking maturer growth, 

 white pine blister and the pine weevil hav 

 invaded even the rcforestated area, given 

 over to young growth of white pine. It ha 

 been well established that every tree nattv 

 to this State has its enemies, whether it be 

 in the form of an insect or a disease 

 growth and so far, other than the burnil 

 of infected areas, all measures for conti 

 have been left entirely with our insectfirHl 

 orous birds. 



