Building on the wartime 

 experience in providing 

 technical services to the 

 forest industries, a "Forest 

 Utilization Service" was 

 established at the various 

 experiment stations of the 

 Forest Service. This pro- 

 gram provided a means of 

 stimulating research at 

 utilization laboratories and 

 a way of getting results of 

 research into practice with 

 minimum delays. In the 

 South, men such as M.M. 

 Lehrbas, C.R. Lockard, R.D. 

 Carpenter, R.H. Page, and 

 W.R. Smith provided such 

 liaison between the Madison 

 laboratory and the forest 

 industries. They provided a 

 wealth of information to 

 timber producers on such 

 matters as lumber season- 

 ing, milling, wood preserva- 

 tion, gluing of wood prod- 

 ucts, pulp chip procurement 

 and storage, and log and 

 lumber grading. Some 

 years later, similar assis- 

 tance was provided by 

 extension specialists at 

 some of the southern 

 universities. 



In the early postwar years, 

 investigations were under- 

 taken to develop log and 

 tree grades for southern 

 pines, supplementing 



grades for hardwoods 

 developed in earlier years. 

 These provided a means of 

 improving efficiency in 

 logging and milling and 

 making more accurate 

 appraisals of timber values. 

 The work of C.R. Lockard, 

 R.D. Carpenter, R.A. Camp- 

 bell, LM. James, J.A. 

 Putnam, and others 

 provided effective log grad- 

 ing rules both for southern 

 pines and for hardwoods 

 (e.g., Lockard and others 

 1950). 



The 1960's also saw the 

 development of technology 

 that permitted efficient 

 manufacture of plywood 

 from the southern pines. 

 This resulted from coooper- 

 ative efforts of the plywood 

 industry and Forest Prod- 

 ucts Laboratory re- 

 searchers, who provided 

 technical information on 

 wood characteristics, adhe- 

 sives, machining tech- 

 niques, and criteria for 

 commercial standards. The 

 expansion of this new 

 southern pine plywood 

 industry has been spectacu- 

 lar, with production in 1982 

 reaching more than half the 

 total U.S. output of structural 

 panels. During the 1960's, 

 use of sawmill residues for 



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