rrED^STATES 

 DEPARTMENT 

 OF AGRICULTURE 



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IN F OK^-.^SltOi^ •' 



WITH UNCLS SAIvPS NATURALISTS. 



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RELEASE Friday, October 9,-1331-— 



HOT FOR PUBLICATION 



ANNOUNCEIvCSNT ; How for our visit with Uncle Sam's Naturalists of the United 



States Department of Agriculture. Our Wilds Man is back from a visit to the 



tall timbers '.Tith some of those naturalists ajid he has some tall stories 



to tell us Isn't that right, Mr. Wildsraan? 



Tall trees remind me of that peom of Tom Hood's 



You remember. I remember. — — 



"I rememb'jr, I remember 



The fir-trees dark and high; 

 I used to think their slender tops 

 Were close against the slsV: 



It was a childish ignorance. 

 But now 't is little joy- 

 To know I'm farther off from heaven 

 Than when I was a boy." 



But from what Mr. Harry D. Tiemann, of the Forest Products Laboratory, 

 says it would seem that some of the trees may have actually been taller in the 

 old days. 



Mr. Tiemann has been collecting information on the dimensions of trees. 



And he would be glad to get more from any of you who happen to knovr aboiit 



any big trees — - Our information of big trees past and present is not as com- 

 plete as it might be. 



Then, too, we sometimes suspect that some of the tall stories about tall 

 trees felled long ago may have stretched the measurements. In the long ago, 

 in most cases, folks estiroated the height of the tall trees by the eye or they 

 Just guessed at the height. It seems probable that in some cases thoy made a 

 bad guess. In other cases, the trees seemed to have continued to grow in length 

 long aftiir they had been used up for lumber. 



Of course, when wo talk of tall trees, most of us think first of red- 

 woods. Tell, the tallest known redwood is one still standing in Bull Creek 

 Flat. Fairly reliable measurement r)iaccs the height of tliat tree at between 

 559 and 363 feet. Mr. Tiemann says tsdlor ones no^r have existed, but there is 

 no record. 



