the voice of 255,000 forest owners in New York(~~>c~s~~ti~~~1~er~~of II million acres"No natural resour~~, i$,;iso':~J.oseto_~heh~~rt,s 6t;p~~p~.¢ja~ our forests. They are

an unsurpassed resourc~;:<#~:human us eftrlnes standhurhan happi ne ss . We resort to theforest for health, for recreation, for sports, and for inspiration. No other naturalresourcehasthebeautyandutilityofthe forests. No other resource has the marvelouscolors, the intimate touch, the alluring appeal. "

Gurth Whipple

Nixon

of a three part CBS radio ad-made October 18, 1968.

n technology and old-fash-pride in America can and must

to win the battle of our en-

technological know-how whichelp to place man on the moonused to help him keep areas of

land, clean rivers andand pure air on earth.

we canhave technological ad-and natural beauty. I say we

ve fresh ideas in industry andair in our citie s.

say we can have the greatest in-might in the history of man

ve places where man's worksas distant as the stars.

can we pursue this strategy?

: we must re-examine all ex-federal programs with the aim

them. Under the Eis-administration such acts asal Water Pollution Act chan-

federal funds through a Singleeliminating duplication and

pe. There is a grave need fordination and cooperation on

evel of government, and es-between federal and state and

overnment.: we must make better useer technology, especially inareas as mineral resourc-

•c:.MT1on,.,t"rtechnology can swiftlyiciently help us to determinee and probable effect of ex-

isting balances of mineral resourcesin our own country and throughout theworld. Such aid can also be used inhelping officials to create multipleuse of lands and explore the possi-bilities of ocean resources.

Third: we must create a nationalminerals and fuels policy if we are tomaintain production needed for oureconomy and security. The strategyof quality looks upon the oil well andthe mine as vital parts of the Ameri-can economy and of American power.There is no contradiction betweenpreserving the natural beauty of A-merica and as s ist ing the mineral in-dustries which are the primarysources of American power.

Economic incentives, includingdepletion allowance, to encourage thediscovery and development of vitalminerals and fuels, must be contin-ued.

Fourth: Federal laws applicable topublic land and related resourcesshould be brought up to date. Theselands will be managed to ensure theirmultiple use as economic resourcesand recreation areas.

Fifth: although most of our nation-ally owned land is in the West, mostof the population is in the East. Wemust work in cooperation with citiesand states all over the country, butespecially in the industrialized East--in acqUlrlng and developing greenspace. The rugged grandeur of moun-tains a thousand miles away meansnothing to a city child who is not ableto get to them. Our cities must notbe allowed to become concrete pris-ons. The creation of national parksand outdoor recreation areas near the

lar ge cities is as vital a part of thestrategy of quality as the preserva-tion of the great forests and riversof the West.

Sixth: every effort must be madeto purify our rivers and streams andair. Last Sunday in a paper dealingwith the polution of our cities, I out-lined a program of anti-pollution(continued on page 3)

USDA RELEASES NEW YEARBOOKHow our food, clothing, and shel-

ter are constantly being improvedthrough agricultural research is toldin "Science for Better Living," the1968 Yearbook of Agriculture publish-ed by the U. S. Department of Agri-culture.

In an introductory chapter to the432-page book, Secretary of Agricul-ture Orville L. Freeman cites devel-opments of hundreds of products forbetter living.

Agricultural scientists, "workingwith Americanfarmers and Americanagriculture, keep your market basketfilled with food, develop new pr oductsfor your convenience, playa leadingrole in revitalizing rural communi-ties, and build better agriculture s inpoor nations," the Secretary says.

American agriculture is theworld's biggest storehouse and re-search factory for agricultural know-ledge, Secretary Freeman declares."We rnus t continue to make new dis-coveries and applications of sciencein the production and use of dood, fi-ber, and forest products, "he writes .

The Yearbook's preface points -outthat all of us benefit in our daily lives(continued on next page)

SCIENCE FOR BETTER LIVING(continued fr om page 1)from agricultural research "becauseit improves the meals we eat, theclothes we wear, our water and air,and the wood v/e build much of ourhomes with, as well as plants andtrees that make our surroundingsmore livable."

Research developments the bookreports on include oblong tomatoes tocut tomato harvesting costs, growinga "forest" in three years, use of plantsas air pollution detectives, new tech-niques infrozenfoods, effective meth-ods for stopping crabgras s, improvedcotton seersucker, better ornament-als for homeowners, and a new low-calorie cheese. One of the book's 83chapters tells how space satellitesmay help farmers of the future.

Dramatic, readable case historiesof research achievements are featured.The book is designed to help farmers,suburbanites, city dwellers, and stu-dents. Most of the chapters werewritten by scientists at U. S. D. A.,other state and Federal agencies,universities, or private industry.There are 250 photographs, including53 in color.

Copies of "Science for Better Liv-ing," the 1968 Yearbook of Agricul-ture, may be obtained for $3.00 eachfrom the Superintendent of Documents,Government Printing Office, Wash-ington, D. C. 20402. The U. S. De-partment of Agriculture does not sellcopies to the public.from the U.S.D.A.

SNOWMOBILE TRAILSIN NEW YORKIntroduction

The ownership and use of snow-mobiles in New York State has in-creased at a tremendous rate duringthe past ten years, with exceptionalgrowth taking place during 1964-1968.While, during the early development,ownership and use was confined pri-marily to the northernmost countiesof the State, individuals in ever in-creasing numbers throughout theState are purchasing and using theseover the snow vehicles. This growthwill, without a doubt, continue to in-crease for some time to come, caus-ing accompanying problems of seek-ing suitable and adequate space forsuch use.

The New York State ConservationDepartment, through the efforts ofthe Division of Fish and Game and theDivision of Lands and Forests hasprovided a total of 2,842 miles ofsnowmobile trails for public use onState owned lands for the 1968-1969seas on.

Of the above total, 220 miles arelocated on game ma:nagement areaswhere old existing roads, firelinesand compartment boundaires havebeen utilized. A list of these areaswith appropriate mileage is includedin this brochure. For detailed infor-mation regarding these areas, pleasecontact the appropriate Regional Su-pervisor of Fish and Game as indi-cated in the Roster of Personnel.

There are 1,292 miles of snow-

COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONALSERVICES RUNS CONSERVATIONCLASS

The Warren County Board of Co-operative Educational Services' Con-servation Class reported on its acti-vities recently. Thirty-sixyoung menfrom a three-county area specializein conservation work within an engi-neering-constructionframework. Oneof the class's jobs: a combined landclearance, beach-picnic area devel-opment.

The class uses modern equipment,including a P owerwagon, two cr awler s ,hald-a-dozenchainsaws, andthe War-ren County D-8 Cat. A recent loan ofa Timberjack Skidder from Timber-land Machines Limited (Glens Falls,New York) helped in the class project.

Russell Deming, Conservation In-structor in Warren County, calledthe loan an example of what he hopeswill be "a new relationship betweenindustry and education, linking equip-ment producers and the forest products

industry with this developing occupa-tional training program. " Mr. Dem-ing brought the class to the attentionof the Newsletter staff in a recentletter.

Part of the Warren County Boardof Cooperative Educational Services'Conservation Class poses beside someof the equipment it has been using.(Photo from Russell Deming)

mobile trails on the State ownedforestation areas, which again ftruck trails, old logging roadsfire lines. These areas are alsolined by Forest and I?istrict andcounty in this publication. Fortailed information regardingareas, please contact the apprate District Director as outlinedthe Personnel Roster.

There are 1,330 miles of smobile trails on State lands compring the Adirondack and Catskillest Preserve. These trail 1utilize old abandoned logging rofoot trails, and old town roadssuitable terrain exists for suchIn addition, there are 300 mileshighways.

Where possible, emphasisbeen placed on the loop type trailterns where the snowmobile userterminate his trip at his point ofginning. To facilitate this, 161of new trail construction hascompleted this year to createloops that range from 3 milesmiles in length.

SNOWMOBILE TRAILS INEMPIRE STATE are listed in apage booklet available from thesion of Conservation Education,partment of Conservation, Statepus Site, 1220 WashingtonAlbany, N.Y. 12206

ONE OF THE TEN TASKnamed byadvise him on domestic issuesconcern itself with The EnvirRussell Train, president of theservation Foundation in WasD. C., will chair the group.

SECRETARY UDALL'SBOOK is entitled "1967: AgendaTomorrow. " The book waslast week. The Secretary de"The squandering of the land,air, light, sky and open spacecities has been the conservation sdal of this century." In his bookcalls for a new brand of conseone that embraces the whole

Committeemanconducted the ASCS part of thegram.(Source: New York State ASCSNovember-December, 1968)

America's Natural Resourcesd from page 1)

ures. Although the paper dealtificallywithproblems of our cit-the program is applicable inparts to the entire problem ofon. Without repeating the en-

six-point proposal, I will men-two key points:Regionalandfederalapproach-es to the problem must be per-fected and expanded, since airand water pollution spills overtraditional political boundaries.

The federal governmentshould be the example of thehighest standards of pollutioncontrol, and all federal facili-ties should eliminate pollutionif we are to expect the rest ofthe nation to follow suit.

_~a.uu development programs mustcoordinated. At the present time

Cabinet ilDepartments are in-in water r es'our ce s : Health,

and Welfare; Interior; De-and Agriculture. It often hap-

that different agencies proceedontradictory progress programs

ning the same problem. Weimprove water resource infor-, including an acceleration ofBasin Commission inventory

we must investigate thesibilities of desalination programs.

ited supply of water is alreadyof the pressing problems in theand could become a severe prob-

in America. A breakthrough inmethods could make

water available to coastal andounding areas throughout the

Automic desalination offers anpos sibility of greater output

much lower, perhaps even com-e prices. We must stop talkingthe future of water preservation

development and start doing thech and studies which will bring

_lnth: we must intensify the inves-of ocean resources. The 0-

in its mystery and promise it isstant as the fabled lands of gold.znust redouble our efforts in de-

oceanography and new meth-harvesting resources from theVast stores of minerals lie be-the ocean floor waiting for theity and courage and determina-

of man to extract them; the sev-can be not only the decade when

reach for the stars, but

not the traditional sunken treasures,but riches such as protein to feed theworld.

We must improve our forestrypractices, including protection andimprovement of watershed lands.National£orests are as important forrecreational purposes as for preser-vation of wildlife, watershed control,and timber production. We must ex-tend methods of fire control in forestsby fire pre-suppression and controlwork. Public and private agenciesmust work together to reduce the haz-ards offire, pestilence, and disease.Here, as in every area of conserva-tion, coordination of effort is of ut-most importance.

Eleventh: we must act to preserveand maintain our wildlife. Already 24birds and 12 mammals native to theUnited States and Puerto Rico havebecome extinct. This is only the be-ginning: 30 to 40 birds and 35 mam-mals are currently threatened withextinction unles s efforts are made toacquire and maintain sufficient habi-tats. The preservaticn of fish andwildlife will require r:esearch, moreland for sanctuaries, restoration ofclean waters, conservation of wet-lands, better watershedmanagement,and cooperation between federal,state, and private institutions.

Twelfth: we must make our recre-ationalareas the best in the world. Aquarter of a billion people, morethan the total population of the UnitedStates, visit national parks and mon-uments annually. The average annualgrowth in visits to outdoor recreationareas has been' ten percent a year.

FIRST NATURE EDUCATIONCENTER IS IN OPERATION

The Rogers Conservation Educa-tion Center opened in Sherburne thispast summer. The Center occupiesa 290-acre tract on State route 80,about 200 miles northwest of New YorkCity.

The Center was once a game farm.It has three miles of nature trails anda conservation demonstration farm.

A chalet- style building serves asInterpretive Center. It overlooks amarshy area. Wildlife feeders placedoutside the windows give close-upviews of local birds. Bird calls aretransmitted inside over a high-fideli-ty sound system.

This is the first of six projectedstate-sponsored nature education cen-ter s. This one was begun with a$98,000 state appropriation. Othercenters will be built as appropriationsare available.

CONGRESS ON TECHNOLOGY,ENGINEERING AND MARKETING

The second Congress on Technol-ogy, Engineering and M.arketing metin Vancouver, British Columbia, Oct.18-19,1968, underthejoine sponsor-ship of the National Forest ProductsAssociation and the Canadian WoodCouncil. The TEAM Congress wasconvened to consider the broad sub-ject of "Housing," following a recom-mendation made by the first TEAMCongress which met last November inNew Orleans.

The Housing Act of 1968- -landmarklegislation in the housing field--af-forded the impetus for considerationof new approaches to the productionof the low-cost housing which will berequired to provide six million unitsof publicly assisted hous.ing over andabove the 20 million units projectedas normal market demand in the next10 years.

In introducing the considerationsbefore the Congress, G. F. Prange,NFPA vice president, operations,pointed out that the forest productsindustry's major and growing involve-ment in efforts to relieve the nation'shousing problems will enhance publicunderstanding of the need for a rat-tional land use policy which contem-plates the public interest in employ-ment and resource requirements aswell as in recreation.Recommendations

A major recommendation of theCongress urged the industry to studyindustrial approaches to home con-struction in line with those now usedto produce 300,000 mobile homes inthe U. S. annually. The Congresspointed out that this approach shouldbe given major consideration in anyserious effort to implement the 10-year housing goal of 26 million unitsspelled out by the Administration lastJanuary. The Congress emphasizedthat if six million subsidized, low-cost units are to be produced, an in-dustrial approach must be sought.

The Congress recommended accel-lerated liaison with the mobile homeindustry and for the forest productsindustry to lend assistance to mobilehome manufacturers in solving build-ing code and structural problems. Itwas noted that wood products are usedextensibly in mobile homes and thatthere are IJ)pportunities for wood sid-ing, windows, flooring, and otheruses as units are joined and stackedin multi -family developments.(Source: Special Report, NationalForest Products AssociationNov. 15, 1968)

MAP LE MARKET TAKING ALLAVAILABLE SYRUP IN CENTRALNEW YORK

Ithaca, N. Y. - The production ofmaple syrup has remained about con-stant in New York and throughout thenation since 1956, according to Prof.Fred E. Winch Jr. of the N. Y. StateCollege of Agriculture at Cornell Uni-ve r s.ity .

Winch spoke recently before agroup of land owners, both farmersand rural residents, at a workshop atthe State University of New York Ag-ricultural and Technical College atDelhi.

He said New York State has ex-perienced two poor years of produc-tion in succession with 300 thousandgallons of syrup rather than the norm-al 500 thousand gallons.

"This has resulted in a scrambleby good maple marketers in the stateto tide them over the dry spell," Winchsaid.

He noted that in Central New York

there is an existing market tnat ab-sorbs our normal production now.Winch cited the fact that in this areamaple producers are near the greatpopulation centers of the Hudson Val-ley and Philadelphia.

"In addition, " Winch said, "we aremaking concerted efforts to improvethe smaller maple producers' imageso that vacationers will be attractedto their enterprise as a recreationstop. "

Winch stated that the person witha small investment in equipment canfind a place in the market by sellingsaptooperators of large plants. Thismarketing idea has been used only inrecent years.

"The idea caught on and is practi-cal," Winch said, "but it has not yetgrown to the level that it could. "

He said smaller producers needto be encouraged if they are to expandan enterprise that can be profitable toboth parties.

Skills and efficiencies must be de-

1967-68 REPORT OFCOMMITTEE ON LAND USE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

I. Objective - to develop an income from the land resource

II. The Factors Involved: Trespassing on private land, resource recogni-tion, evaluation of forest products, involuntary conversion, the land-owner's equity, and water resources.

veloped in the use of tools and meth-ods of tapping, of new techniques inkeeping sap pure and clean, and ofpurchasing measuring, and payingfor sap at levels which will producea reasonable income for all partiesc onc er neu with the operation, he con-cluded.

PER Cp.I-ITA CONSUMPTION OFPAPER - for the U. S. in 1967 was513 pounds down from 530 pounds in1966. The figure for 1967 was mis-leading because of the fact that theusers drew down their inventories.The reverse effect should occur thisyear.(Source: Paper Trade Journal -2/12/68)

N. Y.;:;. C0NSERVATIONDEP ARTMENT, DISTRICT 11CASE HISTORY.ANNUAL NARRATIVE REPORTFISCAL YEAR 19hr

JensHansen, an F . .i:-'.A. Cooperat-or in District 11 since 1953 is an ex-cellent example of an active and con-scientious forest manager.

Mr. Hansen owns 104 acres ofwoodland in western Saratoga CountyneartheSacandagaReservoir. Activein the A. S. C. S. Program for wood-land improvement, hehas, since 1958,working along on vacation, th inne d 12acres of hardwood, 10 acres of soft-wood, released two acres, did cull

III. Trespassing em Private Land removal on.6 acres, pruned 10 acresA. Objective - to protect the landowners rights while providing the of white pine and hand planted 10 acres

sportsman with the opportunity to hunt and fish on private lands. of Scotch and red pine. He has alsoB. Recommendations to made special attempts to promote

1. Landowner good management when he sprayeda. Strengthen relations with neighboring landowners. for pine sawfly several times in twob. Permit hunting and fishing by permission. years when he had this infestation onc. Establish boundaries clearly. his 5-acre plantation of red pine.d. If you post, do it on the entire boundary at proper distances. Finally, in the winter of 1966, he

(Be sure your neighbors understand your reasons. ) had the F. P. A. foresters mark for ae. Prefer charges against a trespasser to protect you from a timber sale on a selective basis about

damage suit if he sustains injuries while on your property. 30 acres of soft and har dwood timber,2. Board of Directors with culls marked for removal. Vol-

Provide NYFOA members with a digest of the ConservationLaw, Section 209 of the State Penal Code , parts of the newpenal code concerned with trespassers (including snow-mobile operators) in order to acquaint owners with theirrights against trespassing; as well as a digest of the legalresponsibilities arid liabilities, and of the r.ights of the land-owner in condemnation proceedings.

IV. The committee is continuing its study of the other factors involved inthe development of an income from the land resource.

Respectfully submitted,

L. G. Strombeck, Owego, ChairmanWallace Brown, StillwaterHenry S. Kernan, WorcesterWalter W. Oman, ClintonDonald E. Peterson, Wilmington

ume came to 136 M. B. F. He is pre-sently negotiating the sale. He plansto request marking; of ,0 additionalacres next year in another compart-ment.

Mr. Hansenfirst became interest-ed in forestry thr ough as s ociation wit.hhis Uncle Uhrenholt who had land inWisconsin where the young Mr. Han-sen stayed. That land is now Uhren-'hoIt Mem or ia.lF'or es t , owned by Wis-consin University.

Mr. & Mrs. Hansen plan to retireon the area and Mr. Hansen will con-tinue to work on his woodland.

Thomas GortheyRobert WittwerProject Foresters

CONDEMNATIONThe power of eminent domain is

not a license to seize private proper-ty by a small group in a strategic pc-sition. This is what is happening moreand more frequently these days. ThePublic is rarely consulted as to thedegree of its interest in the exerciseof -its power of eminent domain.

The only check upon the indiscrim-inant exercise of this power by pro-tected individuals in arbitrary agen-cies is the mass revolt of the popula-tion effected. This revolt is more thana denial of public intere st. It is anexpression of wrath over the use oflawas an instrument for the persecu-tion of the individual in the name ofpublic interest.

When these cases go into court, theclash of per s onalities and intellectsprevent anyone from knowing how theywill come out. This fact, along withthe cost of such proceedings, preventmost landowners from going intocourt unless they are faced with dis-aster.

The appraisals of the condemningagency rarely take into considerationthe values of the property to the land-owner. They use something they callFair Market Value. The courts haveestablished Fair Market Value as theprice negotiated between a willingbuyer andawilling seller. As the sel-ler is not willing in condemnationcases, only the logic of the legal pro-fession makes it applicable.

The courts have established thatthe individual whose property has beencondemned is the injured party and isentitled to damages.

However, the recovery of thesedamages by the injured individual of-ten subjects that individual to furtherpublic harrassment and often ,,:cp~terinjury. This may take the form 0' py-

cessive financial expense, challengesto his honesty and integrity, disrup-tions to his family and business a c -ti vity .

It may take the form of unjustifi-able legal delays, threats, blackmailand browbeating that sometimes drivethe injured to the verge of despair orin s a n.t y .

Much of this oppression could bealleviated if the condemning agencywere required to adequately and con-siderately relocate and compensatethe injured party before being per-mitted to s e ize the property.

Dav irl H_ HanaburghU. S. Department of Agriculture

spends four dollars for communitydevelopment for every dollar spentto support the farmers income.

FOREST FIRE BURN REHABILITATIONBEING PUSHED BY U.S. FOREST SERVICE

SANDPOINT, IDAHO--- Where once charred timber and blackened earthwere all that remained of last summer's ravaging forest fires, Forest Servicecrews and loggers are rushing the job of reclamation and restoration of theburned areas of northern Idaho's Kaniksu National Forest.

In the massive Sundance Mountain fire area, stretching from the east sideof Priest Lake to the mountain ridge west of Bonners Ferry, work is progres-sing rapidly to restore the 55,910 acr-es blackened last summer, Harold E.Andersen, Kanisku Supervisor reports. Aerial tree seeding has covered 2,080acres with little Douglas -fir, grand fir, spruce, larch, and cedar trees, An-dersen said. Some 1,470 acres have been hand-planted with young trees. Anadditional 8,400 acres will be planted this fall and the spring and fall of 1969.

Greengrass is evident now on the east side of Pack River. This is some ofthe 800,000 pounds of aerial-sown seed that germinated earliest. Andersenexplained that this rye grass, seeded last' fall, is only temporary and will notinterfere with the natural growth in the area.

The rest of the grass will be sown soon, Andersen said. He said large num-bers of deer are edging back into the burned areas, lured by the new grass.Recent rains are credited with causing the new grass to have a thick lushgrowth.

Mushroom hunters are finding large quantities of the morrell mushroomsinthePackRiver drainage area since the rains and warm weather. Sightseershave been asked to be alert for the logging traffic on the Pack River Road,Andersen said. Figures released by the Kanksu National Forest show that26.4 million board feet of salvagable timber was sold in the Sundance burnarea, with 6 million board feet cut already. In the Trapper Peak burn area,north of Upper Priest Lake, 92 million board feet of timber was sold and 31million board feet has been cut.

In another major burn area, at Kaniksu Mountain, near the Canadian bor-der, 5 million board feet of salvagable timber has been sold and harvested,Andersen said.

The first contract for reforestation of the Sundance was let this spring bythe Idaho Department of Public Lands. It was the planting of 300 acres of landin the Lost Creek drainage. South slopes of the area were planted to Douglas-fir and larch from the Forest Service Tree Nursery at Coeu d'Alene, Idaho.The Forest Service Tree Nursery at Coeur d'Alene provided Douglas-fir andlarch seedlings for planting 300 acres.

Within the Sundance forest fire burn area, Boy Scouts planted 4,000 treeson 10 acres on May 4. Dick Horn, Coolin, Idaho, supervised the planting. Th cIdaho Petroleum Council of Boise furnished the trees and lunches.from FOREST SERVICE NEWS, Northern Region, Missoula, Montana

LABOR COST INCREASESThe Department of Labor has re-

ported that hourly wage scales forbu iId ing trades workers averaged$5. 17 on Oct. 1, repr es enting a 7.7cent increase during the 1968 thirdquarter. The Oct. 1hour ly wage scalewas 6. 7 per cent above the same datein 1967, and the year-to-year in-crease averaged 32 cents an hour.However, there were variations bytrade of from 23 cents for buildinglaborers to 38 cents for bricklayersand plumbers. Highest average hourlyscale among the six journeymencrafts were plumbers at $5.77 an hour,with bricklayers following with an av-erage hourly rate of $5.68, electri-cians averagine $5. 63 an hour , pIa st.-erers averaging $5.40 an hour, car-penters averaging $5.37 an hour,painters $5.06 an hour, and buildinglaborers averaging $3.97 an hour .

LAND ACQUISITION FUNDINGThe Ford Foundation announced

this week that it will guarantee a $6million line of credit to the NatureConservancy, a nonprofit organiza-tion, to buy and temporarily hold landwhich is earmarked for governmentacquisition when -funds are approvedby Congress. The Foundation said thecredit guarantee will enable the or-ganization to purchase land includedin programs authorized by Congressbefore land values escalate, which of-ten accompanies park and recreationpr oposals. Nature Conservancy landpurchases will be primarily for nat-ural areas and for open space forwildlife protection. The organizationpresently holds some 52,000 acres in22 states for future acquisition by thefederal government.(Source: Forest Products NewsletterNov. 15, 1968)

NATIONAL HONOR AWARDTO CORNELL SCIENTIST

Latest member to join NYFOA isProf. Earl L. Stone Jr. of the N. Y.State College of Agriculture at Cor-nell University who on November 14,1968 at New Orleans, La. was nameda Fellow of the American Society ofAgronomy.

Professor of forest soils, Stonehas been on the Cornell staff since1948. He teaches graduate coursesand conducts research on soil-forestrelationships.

Stone received a B. S. degree fromthe N. Y. State College of Forestry atSyracuse, his M. S. degree from theUniversity of Wisconsin, and the PhDdegree from Cornell.

In 1954 Stone was an AmericanSwiss Foundation fellow in Switzer-land and in 1958 he was a visiting pro-fessor of forestry at the Universityof the Philippines. The house that hiswife Margaret and he occupied at theCollege of Forestry at Los Banos,was the same that Floyd and HelenCarlson had when the Stones left in1960.

In 1962 Earl was a Fulbright re-search scholar in New Zealand. Hehas traveled extensively throughoutEur ope and As ia .

Prof. Stone has written over 50scientific articles. He is a memberof the Society 6f American Forester s ,the Ecological Society, the Soil Sci-ence Society of America, the Ameri-can Society of Agronomy, the Inter-national Soil Science Society, the In-ternational Union of Forest ResearchOrganizations, and the Society ofTropical Foresters.

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

NEWS OF YOUMr. & Mrs. Arthur Norton cele-

brated their 50th wedding anniversaryrecently at a reception at OnondagaHill Methodist Church. They residein the Norton family home which wasbuiltin1812. Mr. Norton has retiredfrom active farming except for theproduction of maple syrup. He is aCertified Tree Farmer and maintainsan interest in both gas and steam-powered tractor associations. Ourcongratulations and best wishes tothem.

New members since the printingof Supplement #1 are:

W. J. Cowee, Inc. (Rensselaer &Washington) - Manufacturer of woodproducts in Berlin, N. Y.

Mr. & Mr s . Ronald Bur kart(Otsego) - Fly Creek

Prof. Earl L. Stone (Tompkins)Dept. of Agronomy at Cornell

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Koenig (Warren)Warrensburg

James W. Cas lickNewfield

Richard E. GarrettForester in FPA District #3

NEWS OF YOU(Items Delayed)

Robert A. Bye,ceived the alumni Junior merr.orialaward at the College of Forestry. Amajor in forest wildlife managementBob is on the Dean's honor list. Heis active in anum ber of extracurrilar activities, including Boy Scand Explorer Scouts.

Robert C. Watson, LaFayettetral School, was elected presidentthe Association of Teachers ofculture of New York at the groupannual meeting last June.

How about sending in some"of you" material for use in futuresues?

Mrs. Luella B. PalmerMembership Secretary

WANTED: A sawyer and all-aroundmill man is needed for an interestingnew mill on the Huds on River facingNew York City. Located between El-list Island and the Statue of Liberty,this Ireland electric mill will cut uptree-length piles of pine and oak thatare being pulled out of the river. Thesepiles were part of the foundations forpiers and docks now being torn down.The operation is steady and is expect-edtocontinuefor 10 or 15-years. Be-sides construction lumber, the millwill make pallets and chips.from MARKETING BULLETIN,November 15, 1968

Mrs. Luella B. PalmerMembership Secretary

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FROM THE EDITOR'S CORNER:Many thanks to all the friendly

respondents who sent Christmasholiday greetings to me last mMany included notes for "Forester " which are als 0 much appreDon't think anything is "unirnpto us.

We received notice here, of theondmeetingofthe Upper Hudson Rer Conference on December 7 atHoliday Inn in Lake George, New Y"Forest Owner" would be interin hearing about that meeting frmembers of the Adirondack HudsRiver Association. We hope tomore about the activities of thisin the futur e.

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