Forestry paid off at Crossett. 

 A half-century after 

 Chapman had predicted 

 the company would lose its 

 woodlands unless it 

 changed its policy, Crossett 

 was still producing forest 

 products from the holdings, 

 now increased to 565,000 

 acres. For these assets, 

 together with the company's 

 manufacturing plants, 

 Georgia Pacific Corporation 

 paid $127 million in 1962 

 and continues to manage 

 them today (Clepper 1971, 

 p. 244). 



Today's industrial forest 

 land management had its 

 roots in these cited early 

 examples of the awakening 

 need for wildfire control 

 and early reforestation 

 efforts. In fact, with a few 

 exceptions, as late as the 

 early 1900's, industrial 

 forestry efforts were mainly 

 involved in prevention and 

 suppression of wildfires 

 and custodial care of areas 

 logged over by their own or 

 predecessor operations. 



International Paper 

 Company, one of the largest 

 industrial landowners in the 

 South with approximately 5 

 million acres under 

 management, is typical of 

 the industry in its forest 

 management development. 

 Early on, the company 

 decided that investing 

 millions of dollars in a pulp 



and paper mill without 

 ensuring a continuous 

 timber supply by investing 

 in and managing timbered 

 lands was imprudent. 

 Bankers the company 

 approached for loans to 

 purchase their early mills 

 insisted on land ownership 

 as part of the package 

 before approving loans. 

 International entered the 

 southern scene in 1 925 

 with the purchase of the 

 kraft mill in Bastrop, LA. It 

 added five additional mills, 

 two by purchase and three 

 by construction, in rapid 

 order. Today, it operates 12 

 wood-products plants and 

 1 1 pulp and paper mills in 

 the South. 



During the years 1974 

 through 1985, this one 

 company has spent, on 

 average, $800 million 

 annually in capital 

 investment, primarily in 

 plants in the South (Gee 

 1982). These investments 

 are backed up by over 5 

 million acres of prime 

 timberland under the 

 management of a cadre of 

 professionally trained 

 foresters and woodswise 

 technicians located in areas 

 strategic to the 

 manufacturing plants. 



Their management activities 

 include every modern 

 technology utilized by the 

 forest community. Final 



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