State-wide searches have been made to locate suitable 

 walnut for gun stocks. We are short, also, of the large 

 high-quality oak needed for shipbuilding. Structural 

 timbers of most species and long, wide timbers free 

 from knots or other defects are increasingly difficult to 

 obtain in the needed quantities. Most of our higher- 

 quality and specialty-type lumber comes from old- 

 growth forests, which obviously are not as avail- 

 able today as previously. 



TREE PLANTING? 



7. Will tree planting solve the problem? 



We hear of millions of trees being planted in re- 

 forestation projects. Some conservation enthusiasts 

 demand that 10 trees be planted for every 1 cut. 



Even though Federal and State Governments main- 

 tain nurseries capable of producing hundreds of mil- 

 lions of trees, the combined planting by all agencies 

 is covering only a small fraction of the area needing 

 reforestation. 



For instance, a cooperative forest-industry nursery 

 developed in the Pacific Northwest with a capacity of 

 5 million seedlings per year has received much publicity. 

 When an area is planted it usually means setting out 

 approximately 800 trees to 

 the acre. The five million 

 seedlings produced by this 

 nursery would thus provide 

 for planting 6,000 acres per 

 year. This is a laudable 

 and encouraging beginning. 

 But at this rate reforesta- 

 tion of all privately owned 

 commercial timberland in 

 the Northwest needing such 

 treatment would require 

 generations. 



