the voice of 255,000 forest owners in New York- representing an ownership of 11 million acres

I tt Woods WillI(· Jane Zq

ARE INVIT ED TO NYFOA' SWOODS WALK

Harold Tyler, who operates Maples at Westford (Otsego County),

• and makes maple syrup, mapleand maple candy, will be our

for the first Woods Walk of 1968e place on a Central New YorkatlO:OOa.m. onJune 29,1968.at is a Woods Walk?

_.-vFOA's Woods Walks began lastA Woods Walk is a 2 to 2-1/2hike through the woods of anmember, limited to 12 or 15,

each instance by aonal forester and a member

NYFOA Board of Directors. The_=ber of the Board of Directors

that everyone is introduced tost. He is responsible for send-a story of the Woods Walk and

attended, to the Forest Owner.one of the 50 or more NYFOArs who participated in theWalks last year can tell you of

enjoyable experience of seeingcountry, a demonstration of good

dship in caring for woods pro-• and meeting the fine friendsassociations made during the

of a Woods Walk.found the

inspiring, educationaldelightful! The plan is to have

Woods Walks this year thewhich will be at Harold Tyler's

old, amember of the Board of~~d:ors ofNYFOA says: "We could

eat our lunches at my new pondwhich is clos e to the woods or

NEW PRESIDENT NYFOAJohn W. Stock, Tupper Lake

The Board of Directors at its 39thmeeting May 4, 1968 in Syracuseelected John W. Stock of Tupper Lakeas President.

Norwood Olmsted, Glens Falls, isthe 1st Vice President; Emiel D.Palmer, Syracuse, 2nd Vice Presi-dent, and William R. Fraser. DeWitt,3rd Vice President.

Retiring President, David H. Hana-burgh, Buchanan, continues on theExecutive Committee as Past Presi-dent.

Appointed Executive Vice Presi-dent is Floyd E. Carlson, Jamesville;Secretary, Lewis DuMond, Cobleskill;and Treasurer-Membership Secre-tary; Mrs. Luella B. Palmer, Syra-cuse.

Floyd E. Carlson was reappointedEditor of the Forest Owner.

PLANTATION - FINE FAMILYEXPERIENCE

Prof. Fred E. Winch, Jr.Department of ConservationCornell UniversityIthaca, N. Y.

Dear Professor Winch:We first started planting in 1958,

and although our marketing has beenstrictly a low key matter, the totalinvestment has been recouped. Moreimportant is that the plantation hasbeen a fine experience for the fami-ly. My son, nine years old when webegan, has grown up with the trees,and took over a major share of theircare. He is now a sophomore at theCollege of Forestry, Syracuse, ma-joring in forest chemistry. (Twoyears at Arnot forest helped, too).

For him and his sisters, theplantation furnished plenty of sub-ject matter for 4-H demonstrationsover the years. For the past threeyears, the girls' 4-H club has hada "father's day" when trees werecut, and the girls sold them in town.The proceeds finance this year's ac-tivities, plus half the cost of attend-ing 4-H camp in the summer. Wewere ahead cif the ecumenical move-ment by giving trees to each churchin town for Christmas decorations.

Should the plantation be wiped outtoday. it has been a most profitableexperience for us.

Yours.John F. Daly

One cord of pulpwood will makeabout a ton of newsprint.

(continued from page 1)

Incidentally, each person on theWoods Walk brings his own lunch.When the hike has been completedthere is a fj,ne opportunity during thelunch hour to enjoy and talk with thefriends made on the trail and learnmore about the host's experience inimproving his woods.

Harold says further: "I have awoods area which we can drive closeto. Our Woods Walk can include ahardwood stand which has beenthinned. Adjoining this is a plantationof spruce and pine about 40 year sold,chemically thinned, and crop treespruned - and adjoining this is a smallChristmas tree plantation and a smalllarch stand.

"Then there is a large sugar maplebush within 1500 feet wher e I havecarried out management proceduressince 1950. Here is where I use plas-tic tubing to collect sap and I can giveyou a little demonstration of its use.These sites are just a part of the 200acres ofwoodland I manage but wherea variety of practices can be seenwithout too far a walk.

"Incidentally I became a certifiedTree Farmer in 1961. My certificatenumber is 187.

"My farm can be reached veryeasily from either Route 7 or Route20. If you are driving west on Route7, turn right at Worcester. Go5 milesfollowing my maple sugar signs. Ifone is driving east on Route 7, turnleft at Schenevus toward Westford andfollow signs from Westford 1-1/2miles to the farm.

"If traveling Route 20 turn off atCherry Valley, travel on Route 166to Roseboom. Then on Route 165 toSouth Valley. Here turn right to West-ford which is 5 miles of South Valley.We should plan to meet at my house."

Chairman of the Committee onWoods Walks this year is member ofour Board of Directors Hendrik W.van Loon, College Forester for Ham-ilton College.

If you ar e planning to go on a WoodsWalk please make this known to FloydE. Carlson, Executive Vice Presi-dent, College of Forestry, Syracuse,N. Y. 13210.

It is important that each NYFOAmember planning on a Woods Walkmake reservations with the Office ofthe Executive Vice President. Assoon as the minimum number of sixreservations has been received youwill be notified that the Woods Walkis going forward as scheduled, andyou will receive a map showing justhow to get to the host's property.

"MARKETS FOR HARDWOODS"by Ronald G. Bernhard, Forester, Conservation Department, Stamford, N. YPresented at 50th Anniversary Celebration, New York Section, SocietyAmerican Foresters February 22, 1968, at Lake Luzerne, New York.

The day-to-day application of the F'orestPractice Act Program is to assistprivate woodland owners in managing their forest resources. The Pr';gris aimed at a group which collectively owns and controls 93% of the forest landarea in New York State.

Management recommendations that are made through this program must becompatible with each landowner's objectives. To some, the immediate objec-tive may be timber production; to others it may be wildlife habitat improve-ment, maple sap production, recreation, Christmas trees - possibly a com-bination of objectives, or simply as some landowners put it, "to-do-what'sright-for-the-land." Collectively, however, it is their land to which NewYork's wood-using industry must look for its supply of raw materials.

To effectively meet this objective, the service forester must broaden hisknowledge in two general areas. First, he must develop an understanding ofthe forest resources upon which industry is based. It is necessary to know thequantity, quality, form and location of the timber resources available for ut-ilization. Secondly, he must r ecogni ze the procurement, manufacturingmarketing problems of industry and how these may affect his managemprogram.

First, letusconsiderNewYork'sforest resources. In 1956 the total grow-ing stock on commercial forest lands was estimated to be in excess of 11-1/2billion cu. ft. including almost 27 billion bd. ft. of sawtimber. Roughly 7of the sawtimber volume is hardwoods, chiefly sugar maple, beech, yellowbirchandredoak. Comparedwith other States; New York has the sixth great-est volume of hardwood sawtimber in the nation.

The extent to which hardwoods are being utilized was emphasized in 19in the published results of a cooperative sawmill survey study conductedthe New York State Conservation Department and the State University Collegeof Forestry. It showed that more than seven out of every 10 cu. ft. of rwood used by New York mills in 1963-64 were hardwood. Thus, it isYork's hardwood growing stock that forms the backbone of its wood-usingdustries, and the future direction of this industry will depend on how harwoods are managed.

The condition of our hardwood resources was partially described lastwhen the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station released the PreliminaryForest Survey Statistics by Counties and Sampling Units, for a portion of NeYorkState. One sampling unit, covering 9 counties in south-central New Ywas reported to have 2,153,000 acres of commercial forest land. 24% ofland area supports sawtimber stands. 19% is in poletimber stands and 57%in seedling-sapling or non-stocked areas.

An indication of stand quality, in th is 9__<:ou~!yarea,--~aJs.~ conta.iried-the report. Only 10% of the hardwood sawtimber growing stock is of No. 1 1grade quality. 19% is classed as No.2 log grade material and a staggering71% of the volume is below No. 2 log grade standards.

One county in the Sampling Unit, just described, is Delaware Countymy area of responsibility. It has no fewer than 18 sawmills and one veplant that eagerly purchase hardwood logs of No. 1 grade and better. Theemphasis is on quality logs. This is evident when you examine the price trends,by log grades, over the past ten years. The price of a No. 3 log shows a mest increase while prices paid for primes and selectsrisen sharply. (conhnued on page 3)

NEW NURSERY SEEDING ANDMULCHING MACHINE

Working with engineers at BowieMachine Works, Bowie, Texas, Char-lie L. Rogers, Chief, Research For-ester for St. Regis Paper Co, , andhis staff combined a mulching mach-ine with nursery equipment to spreadpine seed, roll the seed into the softsoil seed beds, and cover the seed

beds with a protective blanket of soggywood pulp. All in one' continuous op-eration.

The Bowie machine called a HydroMu1cher is one of several machinesdesignedtoapplygrass seed and fer-tilizer mixed with wood, pulp flurryto lawns, playgr ounds, parks, golfcourses, road banks and the like.(Source: Forest Farmer March 1968)

.iiiiUi,r's note: Portions of a letter

.keicl7ed weeks ago express enthusi-of a trip to the

Floyd Car Is onUniversity College of Forestry

_1IE"i'-ClJlSe,New York 13210

: am enclosing herewith the thirdfinal .installment of my experi-in Timberland Acquisition forPruyn and Company.

e had two wonderful weeks inFrancisco, San Diego and Yo-

National Park.saw and learned a lot in flyingzni.les up at six hundred milesour--4 hours 11 minutes non-from takeoff at Kennedy airportch down at San Francisco.visibility enabled us to seeas we passed over.

e could clearly see the contin-divide with its snow-capped

far below. als 0 the enor-desert region of southern Utah

northern Arizona. I had neverthat it was so extensive.

was I aware that the forest cov-region was so thin.dotted the mountain

e was no dense forest growthwhole southern Rocky Mt. re-It is of course quite different

north. Arizona and Utahto me to be a vast desertthe headwaters of the Colo-

River. Deep canyons even onibutaries, created by erosionthe ages spread out below.

we pas s ed over the high Sier-and dropped down toward the

again, I was surprised at thee of the solid forest type ofland. The lower mountainwere barren and brown grass-

dotted only with scrubby pon-pine. The valleys were fullyptus because, I suppose,

Apparently that barren grass-soil is rich enough where water

because through irriga-in the broad valley bottoms, thean'd vegetable crops are exten-But the water is brought inremote sources.admired the Redwoods that I

San Francisco. Trees , each tree from four totenmore in diameter. and some

ft. tall. Reproduction takes

(continued fr om page 2)One mill recently created a Super -X grade for sugar maple logs, which is

one step above a select, and for which they pay $200/MBF delivered. At thesame time there is a tendency, among certain mills, to "tighten up" their logspecifications. Some will no longer accept No. 3 logs.

As you can see, the competition for quality wood is strong and it is becom-ing increasingly difficult to find it in the quantities desired. We know that theintensive application of silvicultural practices in immature stands will, overthe long run, upgrade our timber quality. Industry has created a strong mar-ket outlook for hardwood sawlogs and has given us major justification for ac-celerating our quality-improvement programs. I can assure you that throughthe ForestPractice Act Program, we are treating an ever-increasing amountof acreage each year with timber quality improvement in mind. It is not enough,however.

We simply have an overabundance of immature stands and too much cullmaterial in our more developed stands. The magnitude of the problem couldbe greatly reduced by an expansion of industrial manufacturing proces ses whichwill enable us to better utilize and market small-size, low-grade hardwoods.Furthermore, I have found forest landowners much more eager to improveyoung stands, if they can market the by-products removed in thinning. Eventhough the immediate dollar return from these operations is small, the land-owners seem to appreciate good utilization.

In Delaware County, there are presently two installations using small-size,low- grade hardwood logs. Both have started operations within the past twoyears. One is a bolter mill that buys cherry, sugar maple, red oak, ash andbeech down to a minimum size of 8 inches and 4 feet in length. The other is ahard-board plant which consumes about 90 tons of random length hardwoodsper day, in diameters ranging from 8 to 14 inches. Because of its location,the hard-board plant obtains only 30% of its raw materials from within theCounty. The two plants combined, consume only 240,000 cu. ft. of DelawareCountywoodannually. This is 4 hundredths of 1% of the total net growing stockwithin the County, according to 1967 U.S, Forest Service figures. Obviously.the impact of the two plants on this county's total forest resources is quitesmall. We need an expansion of this type of industry to better utilize the totalforestresources. This inturnwouldlendsupport to our management prograIIl.

This leads me t orrry second point--that the forester must become familiarwith wood-using industries' procurement, manufacturing and marketing prob-lems because they will have an effect on his management efforts.

I often hear the complaint from mill operator s that stumpage prices are toohigh and log quality has deteriorated. This is certainly true to a degree. How-ever, I believe the real meaning goes much deeper. The hardwood lwnberbusiness is caught up in the present profit-squeeze situation which is affectingall types of industry. The consumer is being forced in one direction, while in-creased capital investments and high labor costs are forcing the manufactur-ers in another direction.

The situation becomes further complicated when you consider the compe .-tion from hardwood imports. Foreign lumber is often produced in countrieswher eth e worker's average monthly pay does not add up to a worker's weeklypayroll deductions in New York. The prospects of having to face this competi-tion over an extended period can be overwhelming.

Another problem facing industry is the clamoring by single-use advocateswho wish to remove more forest land from the commercially available cate-gory. In an area where this policy is pursued beyond reasonable proportions,itmaybecome impossible for wood industries to continue. If they do not com-pletely lose their supply of raw materials, they may find the stumpage priceson the remaining available resource too high to stay competitive.

place by coppice or stump sproutsfr-om the old parent tree, manystumps of which were still verymuch in evidence.

The Big Trees in the Yos emiteNational Park were fewer in numberbut even more impressive becauseof their enormous size (up to 35' indiameter) and their age, the oldestof which are said to be 3500 years

of age. These then were maturetrees with the beginning of theChristian era. To see these im-mense trees, the oldest livingthings, was indeed an Lrnprea srveexperience.

Sincerely,Stanley W. Hamilton89 Ludlow Str.eetSaratoga Springs, N. Y.

(continued from page 3)The present controversy over the size of a proposed park in the Redwoods

of California illustrates this point. We have recently heard a similar pro-posal involving the Adirondacks. This could bring the problem closer to home.These are the conditions that create a hesitancy on the part of establishedwood-using industries to expand and for new industries to emerge. All this;in turn, affects the log markets upon which forest management programs arebased.

An ever present problem is the cyclic condition of the entire wood-usingindustry. Nothing better illustrates the havoc that this can cause than the cur-rentsituationinthe pulp and paper industry. In late 1965 and through most of'1966, pulp producers had good outlets and industry was granting high quotas,As a result, many jobbers invested heavily in equipment and actively soughtpulp sales. Foresters eagerly marked thinnings and encouraged the local sur-plus labor force to begin producing pulpwood.

In 1967 the axe fell; consumer sales dropped off and mills with large woodinventories were literally caught WIth their britches down. Loggers' quotaswere immediately cut back. Pulpers in my District were particularly hardhit because they were operating on the fringe of a mill's procurement radiusand many lost their quotas altogether. Furthermore, our management pro-gram lost an important outlet for small-sized hardwoods. Again I emphasize,that indus tr-y+s problems are also the forester's problems.

Finally, let me say that since the wood-using industry of New York mustdepend on privately owned forests for the bulk of its raw materials, then ithas aresponsibilitytotheseforests and to the people that own them. Specific-ally, Imeanthe "cut-out and get-out" type of operation. I am sure Rod Nielsonwill have more to say on this in his paper, but simply let me add that we can-not produce quality wood, if industry, through its loggers, does not use somedis cretion when cutting the 12" and 14" d. b. h. clas s.

Remember, cut and slash operations cause the "gnashing-of-the-teeth"among preservationists and only lends support to their cause. Certainly, manyof our industries have demonstrated their interest in good forest managementpractices. I can site an example in my District of a pulp buyer who was offer-ing an additional $1 per cord to cutters who produced wood from stands whichhadbeenmarkedbyaforester. lamsure there are many other such instances.Similar expressions by industry, in support of on-going forest managementprograms, will in the long term prove beneficial.

In conclusion, I cannot overemphasize the fact that hardwoods, which makeup suchalarge proportion of the forests of New York, represent our greatestopportunity. We are faced with high cull percentages, excessive waste becauseof poor tree form and a considerable acreage of immature forest growth. Theforest manager must come to know this resource and its capability to meetfuture industrial needs.

He must also have an understanding of the problems faced by wood-usingindustries for they most certainly will affect his management p'rogr ams . Inturn, we look to industry for increased uses of small-size, low-grade hard-woods and for continued support of our forest management effort.

AIR POLLUTIONTHREAT TOFLORA AND FAUNA

It has been estimated that 142 mil-lion tons of pollutants were releasedinto the air over the United States dur-ingthe lastyear--more than half a tonfor each of us. These pollutants arethe unwanted by products of our fabu-lous standard of living. And everyyear as we push that standard everhigher, as we use more electric pow-er, drive more cars, manufacturemore goods, and dispose of morethings we have only partially consum-ed, we dis charge more trash into theair.

This trash comes from the follow-ing major sources of pollution: motorvehicles - - 86 million tons; manufac-turing- - 23million tons; electric pow-

er generating--20 million tons; heat-ing of homes and other buildings--8million tons; refuse disposal--5 mil-lion tons.

All this alien matter in the air as-saults the lungs, insults the senses ofmanandanimals, and works in subtleand insidious ways to destroy plantsand materials. Despite Nature's re-markable survival of these attacks sofar, there is a limit to how much liv-ing things can take, and the pollutionin the air is increasingly causing thislimit to be exceeded.(Source: Dr. John T. Middleton,Director National Center for AirPollution Control, U. S. Dept. ofHealth Education and Welfare, inCons ez-vation-Ca.ta.Lys t , December1967)

THE ADIRONDACK NATIONALPARK PROPOSAL by Laurance Rocke-feller has garnered a negative res-ponse from the New York State Con-servationDepartment. Governor Nel-son Rockefeller meanwhile has an-nounced that he would appoint a com-mission to make a new study of theAdirondack Mountains area. The re-sults would be due in mid-April ofnext year.(Source: Northeast Outdoor MemoFeb. 13, 1968)

HOME COSTS RISINGBut another factor- -the continuing

upward pressure on construction costsand home prices -- may also createproblems in the future. Cost pres-sures pose a particularly difficultproblem for the growing ranks ofyounger couples who, because of thehigh costs of home ownership, decideto move into apartments instead. Infact, this helps explain why multiplestarts account for 40 percent of theWestern housing market.

Rising costs also help explain thegrowing District market for mobilehomes. Last year, for example, salesof mobile homes (which are not in-cluded in the housing-start figures)were almost one-fifth as large as to-tal housing starts. In some Districtstates, most notably Idaho, Alaskaand Nevada, sales of mobile homesexceeded the construction of newhomes.

Average hourly earnings of con-struction workers in California roseby over 16percent during the 1960-63boom, by an additional l o pe r cent dur-ing the 1963-66 slump--and by 6 per-cent more over the last year, reflect-ing what one trade journal called "thecostliest labor contracts in la.ist or yc !'The rise in construction wages rateshas far outpaced the gains in other in-dustry sectors, as well as the rise inthe cost of living generally. Materialscosts have risen less rapidly, byroughly 6 percent over the past fouryears, but land prices and taxes havesoared.

As a result, the median price of anew home in the West has risen by athird in just the last four years--inspite of the conditions of oversupplywhich prevailed during most of theperiod- -compared with a one -fifth in-crease in the rest of the nation. Dur-ing the second quarter of 1967 alone,half of all the new homes built in LosAngeles county were in the $35,000-and-over bracket. The higher pricesmean, of course, that financing re-quirements per unit increase propor-tionally--both for builder and buyer.

ON "GETTING LOST"

When a she ep gets lost in the woods,the flock with great anxiety, cost,andpossible danger to the searchers,must set out to find him. When he isfound, someone should ask "Why didhe get lost?"

Nobody but nobody should everstrike out into the woods without aU. S. Geological Survey contour mapof the region, a compass, wooden-shafted matches in a waterproof con-tainer, and most important, the know-ledge of how to use all three. Havingroamed the magnificent Adirondackwilderness for some 40 years, andhaving taught more than 1,000 teach-ers' college students. campers andothers how to travel in the woods, Ican say that getting lost is a matterof carelessness or ignorance, and isus ua Ily unfo r give abl.e, Yes, I've been"lost" for afew hours several times,but always because I got, cocky andthought I could just go from "here"to "there" without bothering to navi-gate.

Auseful principle for hunters andother roamers is that of the base-line. When you park your car, youmay see that for many miles. theroad runs east and west. This is yourlifeline to civilization. Now you mayhunt, let us say northward for a halfa day, never looking at your compassat all, going where you please. Whenyou wish to return, just get out thecompass and go south, knowing thateventually you'll hit the road. Whenyou get there, which way will you goto find your car? It pays to have driv-en the baseline beforehand to learnits landmarks!

All of these things and many moreareshownina 30 minute film "Intro-duction to Forest Adventuring" whichmay be borrowed by residents of theState at no cost except return post-age, from the State University Col-lege of Forestry Film Library, atSyr acuse , As we become more "civ-ilized, " many ofus need an occasion-al forest adventure. To explore awilderness area, and to plot and fol-low one's own course through thetrail-less forest is the birthright ofevery American boy and girL

William M. HarlowCollege of ForestrySyracuse, N. Y.

Timber is Florida's most valuablecrop: one billion dollars annually!

Florida ranks second in the nationin paper and paper board productionand third in wood pulp.

OFFBEAT PRACTICES ATPINEWALD

The Floyd Moot Forest, dedicatedas a Tree Farm on June 2, 1967, isknown as PINEWALD. It is des cribedin a recent issue of Cornell Planta-tions. The lands in this forest werepurchased by James Henry Moot in1858. The conifer forest was the re-sult of Plantation efforts supervisedby Ray F. Pollard, the first CountyAgent in Schoharie County, N. Y.Thousands of conifers were plantedin 1923 and '24 under the leadershipofProf. G. Harris Collingwood, Ex-tension Forester of Cornell and aMr. Williams from the Federal For-est Service.

The Tree Farm locally known asPINEWALDis owned and operated byEdmund Northrup Moot, The Pennerof Pinewald. He is the great grand-s on of the original owner who waskilled by a large glaciated rock fall-ing from a shallow plateau just abovePinewald House. The first owner ofthis land was killed by a berserkscrubdairyherdbullin the late sum-mer of 1904.

Some rather eccentric and offbeat practices are being followed atPinewald. All wild apple trees havebeen grafted to increase their fruitpr oduction as food for all fauna whichseeks food over the forest area. Ex-periments on growth of cross bredapple seeds from these wild applegrafts will be planted along old stonefence lines to encourage food forbirds and small animals.

Nuts from old shagbark hickorieshave produced many young shag barkhickories which have been thinned.

Competing brush and weed treegrowth has been reduced. One seedtree now has over 90 young hickor-ies growing near it in an old 3 acrepasture.

Many other unorthodox proced-ures will be reported from this for-est in the years ahead. Staghorn Su-mac will receive as much care as theregular forest growth, as the seedbuds are excellent fauna food.

The best part of sumac pasturegrowth for birds, deer and smallanimals is to watch deer attack thesumac in late spring time when theyhave come "out" from their "yardup"in the deep woods to seek food avail-able before the grass shows greenon hillsides. Heavy field glassesprovide access to one of the mostintriguing activities in all of nature.

Edmond Northrup Moot3027 Lillian RoadSchenectady, N. Y. 12303

IT'S UP TO US"The truth, the central stupendous

truth about developed countries todayis that they can have - -in anything butthe shortest run--the kind and scaleof resources they decide to have .. ',It is no longer resources that limitdecisions. It is the decision that makesthe resources. This is the fundament-al revolutionary change- -perhaps themost revolutionary mankind has everknown. II

(Source: Secretary General U Thantof the United Nations)

NEWS OF YOUArthur Norton, 4254 Norton Rd. ,

Syracuse,N.Y. 13215, 77yearsyoungand for 32 years maker of maple sy-rup, has averaged production of 150gallons of syrup per year from his _sugar bush of 25 acres. This year al-ready, children from schools in theSyracuse area, from first grade to6tq grade by April 2, 1968, totaled270 visitors and before the mapleseason is over there will likely be400 or more visitors to the old fash-ioned wood-fuel burning evaporators."Art" is a former director of theSteam Engine Association and is pre-sently a three year Director of theGas Engine Association, concernedwith antique farm equipment.

Let's discard the old concept ofdistance as the criterion for housingin relation to jobs and substitute time,and let's rethink our transportationnetwork in terms of time and tech-nology.

Then we can think of building 25 to50 new cities -- separatedfrom meg-alopolis and from other new cities by100 or more miles of green space andfarm land. but no more than an hour'sride by high-speed transit.

England has built m or ethan 20 newcities, and not one has failed. Theironly complaint has been that in thebeginning, they failed to think big e-nough. They are now planning largercities, in excess of 250,000 popula-tion.

Orville FreemanSecretary of Agriculture

Note: The Second Annual Forest Ded-ication will be held on Saturday June1, 1968 at the Floyd Moot Forestknown locally as Pinewald. This willbe continued as an annual event. Aspecial ceremony will be held in theSpruce Cathedral on the top mostlevel of the plantation. The story ofthis spruce court is a most interest-ing one which will be reported j,n theForest Owner in a later issue.

CITY TROUBLES CAPSIZECONSERVATION TRAINING:

Unemployment, threats of riots.and other big-city troubles are citedas reasons for the closing of 12 con-servation centers operating underthe program of the Office of Econ-omic Opportunity, the Wildlife Man-agement Institute reports. The cen-ters are casualties of the tight fed-eral fiscal situation.

Prior to the cutback there were86 federal civilian conservation cen-ters operating on national forests,parks, wildlife refuges. and onlands administered by the Bureausof Land Management, Reclamation,and Indian Affairs.. There now are75. One state-related conservationcenter in South Dakota als 0 wasclosed.

Purpose of the centers is to giveunderprivileged young men basiceducation and training in conserva-tion skills. The affected federalcenters had a design capacity ofnearly 2,100 trainess. They noware being transferred to centersthat still are open, and new enroll-ments are temporarily halted. In-terior department agencies admin-ister 30 centers under cooperationwith OEO, and the Forest Service,in the Department of Agriculture,administers 45.

States where conservation cen-ters were eliminated include Neb-raska, California, Oregon, Minne-sota, New Mexico, Arizona, Ver-mont, and New York.

(Source: Outdoor News BulletinMarch I, 1968)

President: John W. StockTupper Lake, N. Y. 12986

Editor-Executive Vice President:Floyd E. CarlsonCollege of ForestrySyracuse, N. Y. 13210

Treasurer-Membership Secretary:Mrs. Luella B. Palmer157 Ballantyne Rd.Syracuse, N.Y. 13205

NEWS OF YOU

A letter to the Editor, New YorkTimes, written by Maurice G. Postleywho is President, Delaware CountyConservation Association, and print-ed in the April 28 Times Resorts &:Travel Section concerning his earlyHuds on River experiences, Maurywrote in part:

"From 19l9toabout 1923, I storeda canoe at Schoerner's Boathouse,then at the Huds on River and 183rdStreet and adjacent to what we calledFort Washington Point. Groups of usused to paddle across the Hudson andspend weekends camping along thePalisades shores.

"Before the George WashingtonBridge was built, there was a tinycove at Fort Washington Point in whichyoungster could enjoy swirnrrringlessons. Around 1910, myfather usedto tos s crab baskets out into the riverand, when we were ready to go home,he generally had caught enough crabsfor a Sunday evening dinner. "

(Editor's note: Great heavenly day!How times have changed!)

We are pleased to welcome fournew Junior members:Gregory R. Watson - LaFayetteElaine Olmsted - South Glens FallsWesley Olmsted - South Glens FallsAnton F. Cooper - Warrensbur~

Mrs. Luella B. PalmerMembership Secretary

Please get your Woods Walk res-ervations for the first event of 1968in by June 24.

ForestService Information Dirtor Clint Davis,month, was honored by the sponsof the Smokey Bear Fire PreventiCampaign with the first "Silver Smkey" Award for distinguished sin forest fire prevention over antended period of year s , Davis wasrector of the Forest Service's Coerative Forest Fire Preventionpaignfrom 1946 to 1955 and has bechairman of its Executive Commifor the past 13 years.(Source: Forest ProductsApril 26, 1968)

QUOTABLE QUOTE: "One prof concern is the ever -increasmovement of land from privatepublic ownership and theor negligible transfer indirection.

"One way that private ~d.IlUU""IH"r

might stem this tide of publicencroachment is to give the pwhat they are seeking on privateSet aside the salmon stream andbanks for the recreationist;buildovernight campground; preserveshoreline and limit company aties that might interfere withuse; reserve a scenic striproads and waterwyas; provideaccess tothe back country; leavesuperlative grove of trees downthe flood plain.

"In other words, take the initithat will head off need forpublic acquisition. Sure, it willmotley but it may save.. privateship and business enterprise. "

(Source: William E. Towell, Exetive Vice-President, AmericanForestry Association.)