is part III of Richard Nixon'saddress. This will be the last

_u.....::IJt::nt.In light of the recent con-sy over Mr. Hickle's appoint-the Cabinet, we think our read-find this series especially

Nixon

of a three part CBS radio5 made October 18, 1968.

are nowbecoming more awareproblem emphasized and rig-attacked during the Eisen-

Administration--overcrowdingnational parks. We have suc -beyond success in attractingo our parks. If we continue

esent rate of increase, soonwill face the crisis of over-parks and recreational areas

already exists in many places.a unified cooperative pro-

immediately needed if we areour outdoor recreation pro-

anddevelop new ones. A Rec-Coordination Act can provide

"'''al:ed planning for recreation infederal resources programs .

.::.. ••.••• sr vat.ion cannot be succes sful

••••••••.•,,:.by the various goverrunent_r.::"'dLe agencies. A sudden reac-

problem which, if properon principles have beenwould not have needed nat-

blicity to bring it before the

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

"Everybody needs beauty as wellas bread, places to play in and prayin, where nature may heal and cheerand give strength to body and soul. "

John Muir, noted naturalist

We cannot afford a policy of con-servation which jumps from problemtoproblem eager to seize on the prob-lem most recently publicized.

Our single goal in this field is theenhancement of the life of every A-merican.

Americans, everyone of us, mustbe able to look at all of America andsay: This is my country, not only itsmaterial power but its natural glory.

Not only the march of technologi-cal progress, but a casual stroll a-long a beach at night.

Not only the material benefits oftoday, but the deeper, richer gifts I

can leave my children, gifts of natur-al grandeur and the solitude which isso necessary for the great search tofind one's self.

The boy sitting on the steps of aghetto tenement deserves and needsa place where he can dis cover that thesky is larger than the little piece heis able to see through the buildings.

This is our country.The next administration will do

everything it can to keep it great andto keep it, for those who come afterus, a land ofmajesty and inspiration,truly the most powerful and mostbeautiful country in the world.

grine Falcon Populations: Their Bi-010gy and Decline, II soon to be re-leased by the University of WisconsinPress. Along with the unprecedentedpopulation crashe s of the peregrine,regional numbers of some other rap-tors have declined substantially onboth continents. Bald eagles and os-preys are involved in the U. S. andsparrow hawks and kestrels abroad.

These population nose dives aremarked by a characteristic reproduc-tive failure in which adult birds acci-

DDT DECIMATING SOMEBIRD POPULATIONS:

University of Wisconsin wildlifescientists have concluded that thechemicalDDT, used in plant pest con-trol operations, is wiping out largeregional populations of predaceousbirds located at the tops offood chainsin contaminated ecosystems, theWildlife Management Institute reports.In their work with herring gull eggsfrom widely separated colonies in theUnited States, the scientists have es-tablished that shell thickness is cor-related precisely with the concentra-tion of DDE, the breakdown productof DDT, within the eggs.

As a breeding species, the pere-grine falcon, within the last two dec-ades, has been wiped out in the east-ern one half of the United States andhas declined drastically in westernU. S., Finland, Sweden , Germany.Britain, France, and Switzerland.The spectacular decline of peregrinesin the U. S. and western Europe willbe described in a new book, "Pere-

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APA's "PULPWOOD PRODUCTION"TEXTBOOK - has been mailed to allhigh schools and Vo-Tech schools thathave training programs in pulpwoodlogging. The original printing of 2000copies was not quite large enough tofill all requests. An additional 500copies are being printed. Single cop-ies wilt be sent to all Industry Mem-bers in the near future. A limitednumber of copies will be available forsale at $5. 00 each.

Mr. Bill Roden sent the followingarticle to "Forest Owner" and gaveus permission to reprint it. Some ofyou may already be familiar with it--it has appeared in several Adirondacknewspapers.

Mr. Roden also sent a copy of aresolution passed by the New YorkState Conservation Council, Inc , ,earlier this year.

Reader comment--pro or con-- onthe issue is invited.

ADIRONDACK SPORTSMAN-by Bill RodenTHE DREAM DAM

There's no question about it- -thatwhole section of the Upper Huds on isa dam builder's dream. From thepoint where the Indian River joins theHudson to the entry of the Boreas,nearly nine miles downstream, thereseem to be hundreds of spots thatwould lend themselves ideally to theconstruction of a dam. In this wholesection, the Huds on flows free andfast, sometimes quietly through poolsand stillwater, but more often widelyand tumultously over rocks and rap-ids. In this nine -mile run, the riverdrops 300 feet in elevation. It's easyto see why it's the most attractivestretch of wild water left in northernNew York State. It is also easy to seewhy fast water canoe enthusiasts tra-vel this stretch of the Hudson, at ev-eryopportunity. Infact, some of themwho didn't make it have left their craftbehind and just down-river from theBlue Ledge can be seen the remainsof a two-man kayak.

(continued from page 1)dentally break their thin- shelled eggsand eat them. Wildlife researcheshave shown this breakage of egg shellscorresponds with a sharp change inshell thickness beginning in 1947, oneyear after DDT was used generally.

According to the scientists, DDTor DDE stimulates the liver to pro-duce enzymes that break down sexhormones in the blood. Lowered lev-els of the hormones keep birds frommobilizing calcium needed to developnormal egg shells.

Both DDT and DDE can travel ex-tremely long distances in water or theworld's atmosphere. The long-livedchemicals attach to dust particles,are picked up and carried by winds,and return to earth by rain drops ordirect fall out. DDE now is consider-ed the most abundant synthetic com-pound present as a pollutant in theworld's environment.Outdoor News Bulletin Nov. 22, 1968.

North County people call this sec-tion"the Canyon of the Upper Hudson."The River is confined to its course byridges and mountains and ledges thatrise high on each side and the riverbed shows constant outcroppings ofledge rock among the millions of roundand polished boulders that have rolledand tumbled down its course througheons of time. Such bedrock would pro-vide the finest bases for a dam andthe towering walls of the Canyon couldbe locked together most anywhere byconcrete. In the lower five miles adam less than a quarter of a mile inlength at its top could cork the riverand back up a reservoir clear to andthrough the community of Newcomb,some twenty miles distant upriver.Yes, it's a dam builder's dream--this whole stretch of the Huds on thathas suddenly received the concentrat-ed attention of New York State's WaterResources Commission, the WaterBoard of the City of New York, andthe United States Army Corps of En-gineers. But what havoc, what dev-astation, what destruction, of a mostbeautiful and unique section of NewYork State's Adirondack Park wouldresult!

Last weekend the Roden family de-cided to take a personal look at thissection of the Upper Hudson. We droveup to Minerva and turned left off Route28N on the town road that goes toHuntley Pond. Parking the car at theinlet of Huntley, we took the Conser-vation Department Trail (blue mark-er s ) and headed for the famous BlueLedge area. The sun was bright andthe day was just perfect for a hike inthe woods.

The trailfollows around the shoreof Huntley Pond, surely one of thegems of the Adir ondacks, and all onState Forest Preserve lands. Thespruces and cedars crowd the water'sedge and the trail winds through themfor its first mile.' Then the hikerstarts a short uphill climb along theside of a typical Adirondack hardwoodridge. The yellow birches and maplesare huge, several feet in diameter.The shade is complete for the treecrowns have joined and the sun sel-dom penetrates to the forest floor. Amile of this and one crosses a clearly-'marked boundary line between StateForest land and privately- owned land.Andhere the mature timber has beenharvested and a second growth of hard-woods is coming through fast. Thetrail is lined with berry bushes, wellpicked no doubt by other hikers whohave been through and like the Rodens,enjoyed the tangy sweetness of ripe

raspberries along the trail.Soon one lea ves the managedfores

land and the trail swings higher asclimbs to a ridge and breaks out onsun- bathed over look. Beforeeyes is not a large section of their ondack s ,' really quite small,wooded hollow about a mile squareseemingly not much different frommillions like it in the Adirondacks.Through a notch to the northwest thehiker has a glimpse of Santanoni Mtain and that's really the only visfrom this overlook. But there's 0

thing that makes it different - - thesound. Atfirsthearing, it soundswind but this is a quiet day andbreezes are light, and this sounda roar in it. And then you realizedown there, somewhere at your feet.out of sight entirely, is the River, Asyou sit in the sun to catch your brefrom the climb, you marvel at thesound. The river roars so eloqthat you can picture the foaming torrent as it pour s down through the tree-s creened corridor below. You

wild, just as you don't have to seeocean's waves at night to know whatthey look like- -this is fast water brken up by boulders and ledgesfallen trees - -this is the AdirondackCountry at its best- -wild waters, wilforests, remote from all evidenceman.

After a few moments, you hurryand from here the trail is allAn interesting difference in the where - -there's no evidence of recetimber harvesting and yet there'shardly a tree on the whole ridgethat reaches eight to ten inches inameter. The trees are all tinyreally more like brush- -the soil cer must be thin, indeed. Here we seeevidences of bears, too, for therotted stumps and logs have beened apart and scattered.

The trail drops quickly nowthe woods have grown quiet, unusly quiet. A glimpse of water is sbelow and then the tree s open andrealize why it's so quiet for direacross from the treail, less thanhundred yards away, towers the famous Blue Ledge. Already its top ishundred feet higher than you forhave come down through theamong the trees looking downthe river and never looked up.

As you reach the point wheretrail ends at the river, you justhelp but stop andmarvel. At thisthe river makes a right angle bethere's no roaring or rushing he

water is deep and clear. It's easywhy eagles nested on the Bluefor centuries. The last bigne st is down now, blown downoldbyaheavy wind storm someago. What a spot for an eagle,that picturesque rock with thewater pool immediately below

which to catch the fish that formtaple of its diet.you look clos el y at the cliff, youa nest among the cracks, closean ove r hand. It's not big e-

o be an eagle's next--perhapsosprey or some species of hawk.occupied and looks as though itbeen used this year at all.arter of a mile downriver fromLedge there's a patch of rap-

Around the bend upriver can beand heard again the fast waterheard from the overlook.Ledge is a favorite spot ofn. Jack Brown of Schenecta-

two friends had set up campe night just below the Ledge.we were there two other partiesin; a man and wife and one of

lrr!II~t'hY"eyerBrothers of Olmsted-three youngsters. Our fam-

ed our fishing tackle andto fish the river up and

or a half mile or so each way.lamented the poor fishing,

that he came in severalyear and was almost always

"esJsflll So far this trip he wasand we didn't do any better.a setting, the catch is uri-

lunch, I sat on a rock andat Blue Ledge and it suddenlyme that if the dam that the

Resources Commission pro-~, indeed, built downriver, the

ould come at least to the toppossibly over the top of Blue

This whole spot of matchlesswould be drowned! This just

happen. We in the Adiron-ust come together and defeat

-'nn""'''al. There has to be anotherNew York City to meet its

needs. Man simply cannot gowith himself, if he continuesoy the Blue Ledges of his

ILIZATION - will be stud-

esearch Society in an attemptprofitable products from

Conservation Departmentut that an estimated 40,000

_"'~lleS will be use in New

RESOLUTIONNEW YORK STATE CONSERVATION COUNCIL, INC.

The threat of the devastation of the Adirondack Park by reservoirs for m:::I:i-cipal water supply and other purposes has become so serious that it is neces-saryfor the New York State Conservation Council to move immediatedecisively to halt the destruction proposed by the inundation of the Upperson River and other famous river and lake regions in the Adirondacks.

The Council supports the following program:1. Request the Hudson River Valley Commission to undertake a fact-u.;·'""'''-''''-lili

study of all under ground water supplies and technological advances =.a .in the desalinization of seawater. Such studies would bring together au da.Iacompiled by Federal and State agencies and by private research.

2. Cooperate in the formation of a panel of qualified attorneys for the ,.",,?"'"O""'~

of compiling a comprehensive evaluation of the legal questions ra.:.se·these proposed water impoundments.

3. Coordinate the compilation and distribution of any pertinent data toganizations and individuals concerned.

4. Sponsor in the 1969 legislature a statute and/ or Constitutional Arnendrrrezxdesigned to remove from further consideration for water impoundment. ::::eUpper Hudson River.

Passed unanimously, 9/27/68, Rochester, New York.

NATIONAL FOREST ADVISORYCOMMITTEE LAUDSCONSERVATION CENTERS

A cabinet-level citizens' advis orycommittee urged retention of the Na-tion's Job Corps Conservation Cen-ters as one of a list' of recommenda-tions involving National Forests ad-ministered by the Forest Service,U. S. Department of Agriculture.

The recommendations were madeby Secretary of Agriculture OrvilleFreeman's IS-member AdvisoryCommittee onMultiple Use of the Nat-tional Forests following a two-daymeeting in Washington, D. C.

The committee said it felt greaterpublic understanding could be achiev-edfor the National Forest program ifincreasing emphasis were made onesthetics and landscape architecturein timber management .. The recom-mendationfocused considerable atten-tion on logging, calling for neater dis-posal of waste after logging, lifting oflogs out of the woods by means de-signed to avoid destruction of groundcover, and elimination of' 'block clear-cutting. "

They.suggested harvesting of treesin small patches, rather than in largeblocks. The committee als 0 askedthat roads built primarily or solely forlogging be either closed or limited inuse after the logging work is com-pleted. The committee said public re-lations could be improved by displaysand other communications to revealthe "wise, harmonious, esthetic andbeneficial uses" of forest land.

Cooperation for protection of for-est users and federal property in Na-tional Forests with State and local law-

enforcement authorities should bestepped up through cooperative e=-forts including means not yet avail-able. This should be coupled with re-search and a "positive education pro-gram" to get at the roots of the grow-ing problems of vandalism and crime,the committee sa.id,«One phase of thazprogram, the committee suggested,should include education on the use ocfirearms in the forests, including es-tablishment of firing ranges and fire-arm-use training. Also suggested wasa restriction of gun-use in certail::heavy use area of the forest. In theseareas, guns would have to be caseand could not be fired indiscriminate

WOMEN P LANTING TREES,BURNING LOGGING SLASHIN NATIONAL FOREST

WISE RIVER, MONTANA---Crews of women are planting treesand burning logging slash in the rug-get 295, OOO-acre Wise River RangerDistrict of western Montana's Beaver-head National Forest.

"All of the tree planting and burn-ing of dozed logging slash piles arebeing done by crews of women, " FireControl Officer Smith Bruner reports."Our experience has been that thesewomen equal or ·surpass the work ofmale crews. "

Last month foresters inspectedareas planted to young trees by crewsof women in the spring of 1967 and1968. "Each plantation showed an 80-to 85-percent survival," Nevin T.Gunderian, acting District Ranger re-ports.

"F or the past 2 years, the SWD-

mers that followed the spring planting

were hot and dry. We were somewhat::oncerned about the survival rate ofthe young trees the crews had planted.

The high survival rate of the youngtrees must be attributed to the 't eriderloving care' the women gave the seed-lings in planting. In addition to care-ful and effective planting, these wo-men planted more than 500 trees aday--a rate worthy of experiencedtree planters. "

"Weather conditions were miser-able when these women planted thetrees in the spring. It was either rain-ing or snowing," Gunderian said."But the philos ophy of the women was'These trees must go in the ground,corne rain, snow, or shine. ' I doubtthat all the members of a crew ofmen would have stuck it out in suchadverse weather."

Foresters explained the fundamen-tals of plant physiology to the womenso they would understand how to plantthe young trees. The women followedinstructions to the letter, Gunderiansaid. "Our experience has been thatthe crews of owmen are more atten-tive to instructions, give top priorityto safety, and are good at followingdetailed instructions. "

Bruner said that the crew of wo-men used to burn logging slash were"agile, safety conscious, followed in-structions well, and accomplished thesame production that we would expectof a crew of men. "

Women als-o collected the maj orshare of the pine' cones this past yearon the District. These cones providethe tree seeds used at the Forest Ser-vice tree nursery.

The Wise River Ranger District isin southwestern Montana's Beaver-head County, in the Pioneer Moun-tains and Big Hole River Valley,southwest of the Continental Divide.Headquarters for the Ranger Districtis at Wise River, Montana.RECORD-BREAKING PINE TREEFOUND DOWN UNDER

A record-breaking pine tree re-cently was discovered in New Zea-land. Standing ina grove only 39 yearsold, the Pinus radiata measured 193feet in height. Diameter at breastheight was given as 41 inches.

A report on the tree said six otherpines in the vicinity were higher than185 feet and six more than 170 feet.

This sortoffastgrowth, of course,is unknown in North America. Thereport modestly commented that thegrove is located in an area "wherevery good growing conditions prevail. "(From National Forest ProductsReview)

MANAGING THE HARDWOOD TIMBER TYPEby Kenneth F. Lancaster, U. S. Forest Service, Northeastern Area(Part I of 3 Parts)

Why Do We Manage TimberThere are many reasons for the wise management of our timber resource.

To many landowners a good reason, and possibly the only one, is the econ-omics involved. It provides a way of making a few extra dollars.

Ironically, some landowners offer the same reason for not managing theirtimber. It is their assumption that timber cost them nothing and the infrequentreturns represent a profit requiring no out of pocket expense.

A landowner who is realistic is aware of the fact that to own timber costmoney. Taxes have to be paid and the original cost of the land has to be con-sidered. Such expenditures if deposited in the bank would yield 4 or 5% inter-est. Thus, this income is lost because the money is invested or spent on theland. Logically then costs against timber whatever way it is managed includetaxes and interest on this tax money and the interest on the capital invested inthe land.

Tomakea decision as to which alternative is most profitable, let us com-pare these costs against timber to the returns from managed versus unman-aged stands.

DOLLAR RETURN FOR MANAGED AND UNMANAGED HARDWOOD STANDSUNMAN/AGEDSTANDStumpage Price Returns Per Acre Per

Year Over Life of Stand$ .17 Loss.89 Profit

$20/M40/MCosts Include: Land, Taxes Compounded

MANAGED STANDStumpage Price Returns Per Acre

Per Year$1. 99 Profit6.02 Profit

$20/M40/M

Costs include: Land; Taxes, Forest Management and ProtectionFor the unrnanaged stand, if all the timber produced under this condition

could be sold for a stumpage price of $20 per M board feet, and from this re-turn, the costs against timber are subtracted, the net return per acre peryear would be' a minus $.17. In other words, the returns from timber couldnot carry expenses against it if no effort is made to manage the resource.

Onthe other hand, for managed stands, the same stumpage price of $20/Mboard feet would yield a profit of $1.99 per acre per year over the life of thestand. a stumpage price of $40 per thousand board feet, which would probablybe received for managed. timber because the trees are larger and of betterquality, would yield a profit of $6.02 per acre per year.

In considering the financial gains possible for managing timber it would ap-pear it is well worth the effort.

Another reasonfor management is that it can serve as a means of meetingthe nation's needfor sawtimber. By the year 2000, projected demand for saw-timber is about ~ Billion board feet. Projected growth under present intensityofmanagement is 65 Billion board feet. This wide gap between growth and cutcanresultin a serious reduction of our forest inventory to the extent that ex-isting forest industries face an uncertain long range future.

.!!'we can increase our management intensity, sawtimber growth can be in-creased to 100 Billion board feet by the year 2000. which will far exceed pro-jected cut, a most healthy position. This represents the challenge we havefacing us; we can increase our management effort and meet future needs butwill we accept this challenge and do so?

Finally, and probably the most important reas on why timber should be man-aged is not only to put our forest on a sustained yield basis, to insure futuresupplies of timber , but to provide future generations with recreational oppor-tunities, abundance of wildlife and cool, clear water. Only through good For-est Management can we expect to make this nation a little bit more productive,a little more enjoyable to live in than when we found it .

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TALL TIMBER AND TREE BLAZESIN THE,NORTH COUNTRY

Verification of stories about an-cient trees in the Adirondacks is muchsimpler--butwhatever it is, we grow'em big! For instance, there was awhite pine near the mouth of the LittleAuSable which was 147 'feet tall and ahemlock on the Harkness farm southof the Quaker Union which was 90. feethigh and from which six 13-foot logswere cut.

A spruce tree cut for pulpwood bythe j. & J. Rogers Co., AusableForks, was 121 feet, 5 inches highand the circumference of the butt, 41inches from the ground, was 10 feet,10-1/2 inches, the longest diameterof the sturnp being 41 inches, theshortest, 36 inches and the longestradius, 24 inches. This tree grewnear Adirondack Lodge on the north-ern slope of Mount Marcy six milessouth of Lake Placid at an altitude of2100 feet. It is believed to have beenthe largest spruce ever cut in NewYork State.

Blazes dating back several hundredyears have' been "boxed out" by sur-veyors and others, on old treesthroughout the region. In 1851, WingMerritt, a Malone wheelwright, whiledressing out wagon spokes from anoak tree 18 inches in diameter, cut atBrasher Falls, found a lead bulletwithin one inch of the tree's heart,fired nearly 200 years previously.Henry K. Averill of Plattsburg, sur-veying the town line between Danne-mora and Saranac in 1889, found aspruce tree near the south line ofTownship 5, OMT, (Old MilitaryTract) and an ax mark with 130 ringsover it, showing that about 1747 some-one was on that mountain slope.

C. W. M. Johnson, another Platts.;.burgh surveyor, took a blaze markedwith the figures 217 from a hemlocktree. In 1855, some years later, Mr.Johnson in searching for the sametree, discovered a scar on the barkof another one, located about wherehe thought the first one had been. Hecut inabove and below the surface andthere was the old blaze with the fig-ures 217 and on the cut-out block theimpression of these figures. The over-growing wood fitted into the marks asperfectly as if it had been soft wax.Thirteen years later, Mr. Johnsontook another chip from the same treewith a second impression.(Source: Essex County Republican-Old Folks-North Country Portfoliocolumn by Marjorie Lansing Porter.Sent in by NYFOA member KoertBurnham, Keeseville, N. Y.)

BEAUTIFUL BIG LARCH CONES!That is the caption under a picture

on page 4 of the FOREST OWNER forAugust, 1968, which shows Piet VanLoon holding a spray of foliage andcones on a Larch growing on MapleHill Farm at Westford, Otsego County.

As you would expect, my reactionwas immediate, and it started a num-ber ofmoves that should be of interestto Forest Owners, so that they knowabout the sort of records that the Con-servation Department keeps on itsshipments of nursery stock.

First, we looked in the Record ofTree Distribution, found that HaroldTyler, who owns Maple Hill Farm,had purchased 3000 Japanese LarchIn the spring of 1959, and that theseedlings were from Seed Lot 453.This title of "Japanese" Larch waswhat was printed on our order blanksbecause that was what we had the mostof. It is impractical to list all the dif-ferent kinds of Larch that we may haveas specials in anyone year.

Our Seed Lot Record indicates that#453 was collected on CattaraugusState Forest 16, in the fall of 1956 -127bushels yielded 229 pounds of seed,or 1.8 pounds per bushel. That is avery high figure and would indicatetop-quality seed!

This Cattaraugus 16 is a well-established seed collecting area andwe know that this plantation was madefrom seedlings of Seed Lot 122, from"Perthshire, Scotland," and is notpure Japanese, but rather the DunkeldLarch, a hybrid between Europeanand Japanese. That would make Har-old Tyler's trees probablythird-gen-eration crosses. Anyhow, they seemto be very fine, vigorous and earlyconers.

This fall, Har old sent me some ofthe cones .• From them-;-tt is easy todetermine that they are hybrids, be-cause of their variability. And the waythe variation occurs persuades methat they are something beyond thefirst hybrid generation.

See what you can get out of theNursery Records!

Dave Cook$480 OAK TREE

A timber merchant and a buildingconcern shared a $480 fine in Brad-ford, England, recently--for cuttingdown an oak tree.

The prosecution contended thatpermission was not granted to cut thetree. Others on the same propertywere marked to be cut, but the oak inquestion was not one of them. Thehapless oak was felled while "in theprime of life," said the prosecution,and apparently the Court agreed.

INTERESTED IN PULPWOOD - INPRODUCTION IN THE N. E. ?

A summary of Pulpwood Produc-tion - in the Northeast 1966, writtenby Neil P. Kingsley, - U.S. ForestService Resource Bulletin NE-ll1968 is now available without chargeby writing the Northeastern .ForestExperiment Station, Upper Darby, Pa.

The first line of this new bulletinstates "Pulpwood production in theNortheast continued to climb in 1967for the 4th consecutive year. "The re-port includes a number of tables .andtwo outstanding charts of figures incolor that quickly indicate the majorpulpwood production counties in theNortheast. It includes the stretch ofstates from Kentucky, Ohio, WestVirginig on through to Maine. This33 page bulletin is available on re-quest.FISHING ELEMENTS SOURCE

A very important consideration indeveloping fishery programs iri thefuture is provision of the opportunityfor the catching and keeping of fish--themselves, essential aspects of theangling experience.

Upon examination, the sport fish-ing experience may be seen to con-sist of at least five major elements.

First, there is the contemplationand the planning of the fishing trip.Secondly, there is the travel to thefishing site.

Thirdly, there is the on-site ang-ling activity, often encamped at water-side, which includes the catching andthe keeping of at least part of thecatch. Subsequently, a fourth elementconsists of the trip home.

Finally, there is the recall aspectof the fishing experience. This canbe extremely important, especiallyfrom the short-term viewpoint Cdis-play of specimens indicating outdoorskills to friends and neighbors. It isproof to family that time and moneyinvolved we're well spent), includinga little eating of the catch.

Perhaps no less important are thelong-term recall aspects that maytake the form of permanent displayof catch through photographs or amounted trophy.(Source: Sport Fishing InstituteBulletin Nov. Dec. 1967)

THE DOUGLAS FIR REGION TREEIMPROVEMENT COUNCIL - has beenformed by a group representing theforest industry, public forest agen-cies and Northwest universities tofurnish leadership in regional treeimprovement.(Source: Pulp and Paper - 9/23/68)

NEWS OF YOUThe month of December was quite productive as far as new members are

concerned. They are:Richard E. Garrett {Onondaga} .• An F. P. A. forester residing in TullyEdward E. Jolly {Warren} - AmityvilleMilo E. Bachman {Delaware} - DelhiLucille Ortez {Warren} - Lake GeorgeDr. Mervyn Prichard - SchenectadyDr. D. A. Delisa - SchenectadyDr. Derek Sayers {Essex} - SchenectadyGeorge A. Forsythe {Schoharie} - ElmhurstRoswell Greene - Caretaker for Syracuse China Co. property in Hamilton

County - HoffmeisterCharles Lyons - ByronEdward Matter - WorcesterMrs. Ruth Riedinger {no land} - SchenectadyT. A. Riedinger {no forest land} - Schenectady

Addresses will be fur ni ahe d on request.Mrs. Luella B. PalmerMembe r sh ip Secretary

The following editorial appeared inthe "New York Times" Sunday, Janu-aryl2,1969.THE EVERGREENS

One name for them is conifers, butto most of us, especially at this timeof year, they are evergreens. Withoutthem, the winter landscape would beaharsh, gray, shelterless place, andnot only because we think of green asawarm, live color, the color of sum-mer. Without the pine s, the hemlocks,the yews and the cedars our snowcladhills would be stern and forbidding andeven the valleys would offer little ofcomfort or snugness.

Maples and oaks are beautiful sum-mer trees and unsurpassed in autumn,but what beast or bird would turn tothem for shelter in a snowstorm? Whoamong us would pause after a snow-storm to admire the special beauty inthem? But a grove of pines or a hill-side thicket of hemlocks are not onlymagnificent under a mantle of snow;they are green tents of refuge forstorm-weary bird and beast.

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

Editor: Nancy Clarke Gridley1021 Westcott St.Syracuse, N. Y. 13210

Treasurer -Membership SecretaryMrs. Luella B. Palmer157 Ballantyne Rd.Syracuse, N. Y. 13205

Because they bear cones of one kindand another they are conifers; butmore importantly, they are green,quick with the flame of life unquenched.Break a twig and the sap still oozes.They haven't retreated from winter,andtheyaren'tgoing to retreat. Theirkind has survived endless change.And that's another reason we admireand respect them.

A real estate developer built a fancysubdivision in one of the better neigh-borhoods. He reserved for himself alot that faced on a street that was soshort ithad room for only one house-his. He named the street Skid Row.He did this, he explained, because itimmediately eliminated his name from1,000 mailing lists all over the coun-try, and it also stopped salesmenfrom telephoning him. --ncg

"As longas I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'llinterpret the rocks, learn theguage of flood, storm and aVCl.LCI.IH;n<~.I'll acquaint myself with the glacieand wild gardens, and get as near.heart of the wor ld as I can. "

John MuirFROM THE EDITOR'S CORNER

The "New York Times" printedlittle news item last December 23bout new protection affordedeagles in Southeast Alaska. Thesymbol of the United States, hasprotected since 1940 by the BaldAct, making the shooting of anaFederaloffense. The new agreemwill, according to the news item, "tect nest trees in areas where timsales, road construction, or othererations by man are planned. "

The Department of the Interiorthe Forest Service of the Departmof Agriculture are responsible foragreement. Terms will be carriedby the regional forester in the araffected.

Not many people today havechance to see a real, live bald eanot in a zoo, but free, and preferflying. I saw one once--aboutyears ago, Iguess--inthewoodednear Lake George, between SabDay Point and Ha.gue,' Bald eaglesalmost never seen there anyaccording to one local authority,the one we saw seemed to think helonged there. He was a r athe rbird, but very beautiful in thestrength and dignity can be be

May the bald eagles of sAlaska thrive in their newly-prnest trees! And I hope my Neweagle is still free.