Word: tree
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...forests leaving them stumped and stripped. The result was that by the late 1930s the U.S. was in danger of becoming timber-poor, and the lumber industry was under heavy fire from conservationists. Today, lumbermen have a new approach and a new program that promises to produce more trees than ever before. The project: tree farming, under which U.S. forests are as carefully planted, managed and harvested as lettuce and tomatoes. When loggers fell a tree, they make sure a new one grows in its place...
...Tree farms, ranging in size from small, back-country wood lots to the vast forests of big logging firms, now cover 33,692,964 acres, an area bigger than New York State. Some 3,500,000 of these acres were set aside for farms last year for the first time. In the South tree farms cover 21 million acres from North Carolina to Texas. Florida has one gigantic farm of 800,000 acres owned by St. Joe Paper Co., and Texas has 3,400,000 acres producing fast-growing Southern pines for U.S. construction and pulp mills. But the biggest...
...help nature work for man, loggers now act as regulators of the natural reseeding process. For example, in cutting over an area of Douglas fir, they fell trees in blocks about half a mile square, leaving thick stands of mature trees as natural nurseries to sow their airborne seeds over the cut areas. At five years the seedlings are Christmas-tree size and at 20 about the height of a two-story house, and growing about 300 to the acre. When the crop is 30 years old, the lumberman's harvest begins. With power saws the lumbermen thin...
...there will be more timber in the U.S. in the future than there is now. "Our big problem," says Arthur W. Priaulx of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, "is to get the idea across to the little guys. They can realize $25 an acre every year by tree farming, more than they can make by putting the same land into pasture." Those who have tried it agree. Says one timber-wise farmer, who tree-farms 180 acres in Washington's Lewis County: "For years we struggled to clear this land for pasture and crops . . . Finally, the timber...
Traditionally the Christmas season lasts a little longer in Washington than in the rest of the nation. From the time the huge Christmas tree goes up across from the White House to the delivery of the annual State of the Union message in January, an aura of good feeling suffuses the nation's capital. This spirit was especially evident in the plea for "harmony and good will" which the President made in his address last week...