LODGEPOLE PINE FOR POLES 



C3EPOLE pine, of which there are region, states the department; the pine 



abundant stands in both the may be made to last longer than 



Rocky Mountain and coast untreated cedar. Tests carried on at the 



ranges, when treated with pre- forest service laboratory also showed 



servatives, ought to serve in the place of lodgepole pine to be as strong as the 



red cedar as a pole timber, says the cedar, if not actually stronger. 



Department of Agriculture in a bulletin Fire-killed lodgepole pine, of which 



just issued on Rocky Mountain woods there is a vast quantity in the Rocky 



for telephone poles. Mountain region, showed a strength 



The rapid extension of telephone and under test 80% that of live red cedar, 



power lines in the west is making the In elastic values, the two were prac- 



question of pole supply one of increasing tically equal, and in stiffness, fire-killed 



importance. Western red cedar, for lodgepole pine is quite comparable to 



long the standard pole timber of the the cedar. The prejudice against the 



western States, grows only in Washing- use of fire-killed material is a mistaken 



ton, Oregon and northern Idaho, and one, says the department, for there is 



in the States south of that region its no inherent difference in wood seasoned 



cost is high, owing to the great distance on the stump and wood cut when green 



over which it must be transported. In and then seasoned. On many areas such 



addition, the heavy drain on the supply material remains entirely sound for a 



promises to result in increasingly higher number of years after the fire which 



prices. killed it, and besides is thoroughly 



The tendency of the lodgepole pine seasoned and thus ready for preservative 



to decay rapidly when in contact with treatment as soon as cut. 



the ground, has so far kept it out of the Engelmann spruce is another Rocky 



field as a competitor of the cedar, Mountain tree which the department 



according to the department, but the suggests might be used for poles. It 



general adoption of preservative treat- is not as strong as lodgepole pine, nor 



ment by railroad and telephone com- does it take preservative treatment as 



panies changes the situation. At an well, but it grows farther south, and in 



additional cost for treatment that still many districts is the only local timber 



leaves the pine pole the cheaper of the available for pole use. 

 two in most markets outside the cedar 



No Forest Fires In Ten Years 



The tenth successive year without a forest fire has just been passed by the Powell 

 national forest in south central Utah. 



The Poplar's Growth 



Yellow poplar, or tulip tree, the largest broadleaf tree in America, has been known to 

 reach nearly 200 feet in height and 10 feet in diameter. 



Pennsylvania's Timber Holdings 



Pennsylvania has about 7^ million acres of timberland, one-eighth of which is owned 

 by the State. The total value of the State's timber is 139 million dollars. 



Montana's Highest Mountain 



The highest mountain in Montana, Granite Peak, with an altitude of nearly 13,000 feet,, 

 is in the Beartooth National Forest. 



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