attention by the industry as a whole. In the large 
centers of production sawmill waste is now used 
chiefly as fuel. Some of this waste has potentiali- 
ties for higher uses which would give greater re- 
turns and more local employment. Many smaller 
mills do not market sawmill waste even for fuel. 
Cooperative action is needed to make available to 
the small mills facilities for converting their waste 
to saleable commodities. 
The industry should make every effort to reduce 
the volume of logs and rough lumber shipped out 
of this region and to increase local remanufacture. 
Industrial and financial agencies should encour- 
age and support the establishment of local re- 
manufacturing plants for which a definite need and 
opportunity exist. 
Industrial Expansion 
PLYWOOD 
There is some question as to the desirability of 
further expansion of the plywood industry in its 
present locations. It has expanded rapidly at 
tidewater points in the Puget Sound, Grays 
Harbor, and Columbia River districts, apparently 
without any definite plans as to future supplies of 
raw material. There is no shortage of material for 
core stock and innerplies, but plywood manu- 
facturers are already going far afield for the higher 
quality of peeler logs needed for outer surfaces of 
panels. It is a problem to the industry whether 
to ship in peeler logs from the central and southern 
parts of the region to augment the supply avail- 
able on the open log markets or to set up subsidiary 
veneer plants nearer the source of raw material 
and then ship veneer to the existing tidewater 
plants for final fabrication into plywood. This 
industry, in addition to obtaining supplies from 
the open log markets, should acquire lands sup- 
porting high-quality old-growth timber for a re- 
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should also encourage the practice of selective 
serve supply, and thereby protect its future. 
logging. 
PULP MILLS 
There is sufficient raw material in the region for 
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additional pulp mills. The available raw material 
is suitable for the highest quality of pulp, and any 
new pulp mills installed should be designed for 
production of the higher grades. This would 
tend to induce local establishment of remanufac- 
turing industries using pulp for purposes other 
than paper, such as rayon and other textile mate- 
rials. 
Road Development 
Logging roads should be financed independently 
by timber owners and logging operators, where 
there is no public responsibility for the construc- 
tion of such roads. On some areas supporting ex- 
tensive undeveloped bodies of virgin timber in 
mixed ownership there are possibilities of develop- 
ing main-line truck roads to the nearest public 
highway through organization of cooperative road 
districts. The timber owners participating would 
pay for the construction of the main-line road in 
proportion to the anticipated benefits and would 
construct their own spur roads. Some of these 
roads would eventually be suitable for inclusion in 
In such cases the 
State highway departments or county road de- 
partments should have some voice in locating the 
the public highway system. 
roads and assist in their construction, even though 
the roads might be closed to general public use 
for the first few years of logging in the area. 
Sustained-Yield Management 
The Douglas-fir region, with its enormous re- 
maining supply of virgin timber, still has the op- 
portunity of adopting sustained-yield management 
without drastic curtailment of present production 
for the region as a whole. Other forest regions, 
in advanced stages of depletion, must greatly re- 
duce cutting if depleted growing stocks are to be 
built up to normal. It is the private owners’ re- 
sponsibility to support, and to share the leadership 
of, a coordinated program of private and public 
action that will make the forests of this region per- 
manently productive and furnish the forest indus- 
tries a stable supply of raw materials. 
