RESIDUES TO CHIPS 



■ . intensified effort 



Over the years losses due to fire have been 

 reduced, and we are beginning to make prog- 

 ress in holding down insect and disease losses. 

 But these problems are far from being licked. 

 Our protection effort must be greatly intensified 

 all along the line. This means hitting fires 

 when they are small and controlling insect and 

 disease attacks before they spread. We need 

 better equipment for the control of fire and 

 other destructive outbreaks. We need to ex- 

 tend our road system into isolated areas to af- 

 ford access for protection crews and for prompt 

 salvage of killed timber. We need to grow 

 trees that are more resistant to insects and 

 disease and to keep our forests healthy so that 

 these enemies have less chance to gain a foot- 

 hold. In short, we need to get this forestry job 

 done faster and better. 



Some forest industries, backed by research and 

 experience, have made substantial progress in 

 more efficient use of wood. However, too much 

 timber that is cut is still being left unused in the 

 forest and in the mill. 



Logging and plant residues can, of course, 

 never be completely eliminated nor can dead 

 trees and culls, now little used, be completely 

 salvaged. Yet in building up the Nation's 

 timber supply to meet the ever-increasing de- 

 mands of the future, we must take advantage 

 of every possible opportunity to make the tim- 

 ber we have go farther. 



Better markets, introduction of new timber 

 products, and development of new equipment 

 for harvesting and processing, all make fuller 

 and better timber use. Progress in each of these 

 fields will help in meeting future timber needs. 



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