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Section 22 initiate action to seek preservation of specimen stands of 

 these species. Dr. Callahain, Leader of Section 22, is in the audici;^ 

 so I'll ask him to remark on the protocol he will follow once he receives 

 the recommendation from Dr. Gerhold. 



CALL AH AM: Later today I am going to describe an FAO panel of experts 

 on conservation of forest gene resources. One of the functions of this 

 panel is to recommend international programs to preserve and conserve 

 threatened species. The panel already has a tentative list of 7 or 8 of 

 these species. The list needs additions and amendments. Dr. Gerhold ' s 

 IUFRO Working Group should make a recommendation to this panel to add 

 these species to the list. Your recommendations to the FAO panel should 

 also be sent to the International Congress of the International Union for 

 the Conservation of Nature (ICUN) . It meets in India in the month of 

 October. The ICUN produces a "Redbook" which lists all those species J 

 endangered or threatened with extinction. The FAO panel would like to 

 add those species threatened with gene resource depletion to the list. 

 In other words, a species might not be completely obliterated, but it 

 might be so deteriorated genetically by man's practice that it is in 

 danger. We would want to add this kind of endangered species to their 

 list. I think there probably will be some action upon recommendations 

 for addition of species at the ICUN meeting in India. The United States 

 Forest Service will have a representative there (Dr. Stephen G. Boyce) 

 who could represent us, or there may be others who would represent the 

 concern of this group at the meeting in India. I would add at this 

 point, that if anyone else knows any other threatened species that 

 should be added to our list, please bring them to my attention during 

 this meeting. 



BINGHAM: As an old "white pine man" my enthusiasm was really 

 aroused by seeing some of Dr. Hyun's color slides of a thinned plantation 

 of P. koraiensis. Also, I was disappointed that neither Dr. Vidakovic 

 who presented Ahsan and Khan's paper on P. walliahiana (syn. P. griffithii) 

 in Pakistan, or Dr. Kriebel, who presented Dogra's paper on Pinus 

 walliahiana in India, felt they had time to show slides of stands of 

 that species. Having seen Ahsan and Khan's black and white photos, 

 along with many of the colored slides of other European and Asiatic white 

 pines, I am impressed with how really beautiful are these European and 

 Asiatic white pine stands. Dr. Kriebel, among Dr. Dogra's slides of P. 

 walliahiana you were able to show, I noticed some very strange, 

 defoliated, roadside trees. Would you remark on these? 



KRIEBEL: There were a couple of slides showing lopped branches, 

 but I really can't tell you much about them. 



BINGHAM: Dr. Mirko Vidakovic who is in the audience has returned 

 only recently from an FAO Training Project at the Pakistan Forest 

 Institute. Perhaps he can tell us about this lopping practice. 



VIDAKOVIC: Perhaps Dr. Kedharnath can comment. 



BINGHAM: I don't see Dr. Kedharnath, but perhaps Dr. Callahain can 

 comment . 



CALLAHAM: No, but it's quite common, to lop branches tor fuel wood 

 along those mountain trails. 



