have sufficient growth in new forests started to keep pace with its
logging operations.
In California a group of redwood operators controlling two-
thirds of the redwood supply have entered upon an intensive for-
estry program. In the past two years these companies have actually
planted nearly 5,000 acres, and are planning on reaching a rate of
10,000 acres per year within the next five years. Several larger
California companies operating in the pine region, cutting their own
and government timber, state that they are on a sustained yield
basis. An association of timberland owners is investigating the pos-
sibilities of reforesting logged-off lands on a large scale.
In the Lake States, the Appalachian and Central hardwood
regions and in the Middle Atlantic States, fully a hundred com-
panies are managing their merchantable virgin and second-growth
stands to obtain natural restocking as the mature timber is har-
vested. Several hemlock and hardwood companies in the Lake
States have been investigating methods of regeneration, and a large
scale experimental trial is now about to be made. In the Appa-
lachian region the rapidity of growth in the yellow poplar stands has
attracted attention, and reforestation projects in these stands have
heen underwav for several vears.
FORESTRY IN THE PAPER AND OTHER INDUSTRIES
Forestry practice in the production of pulpwood is-probably
more advanced than in any other industry. For many years com-
panies in the Northeast, such as the Great Northern Paper Com-
pany, have been engaged in working out methods particularly ap-
plicable to their problems. The outstanding forestry work in the
paper industry, upon which much practice is now based, was done
by the The Brown Corporation in New Hampshire more than
twenty-five years ago. The Finch-Pruyn Company of New York
have thoroughly analyzed their wood problem and have purchased
enough land to supply their pulpwood requirements from current
growth. The International Paper Company have a corps of trained
foresters actively engaged in woodland management. The Lauren
tide Paper Company, of Quebec, has definitely undertaken a plant-
ing program larger than any undertaken before bv a single company
in North America.
In the Central states the Mead Pulp and Paper Company has
been investigating the possibilities of intensive reforestation of
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