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CRA Gertifies Six New Tree Fqrms

Six new tree farms totaling 13,543 acres and one addition of 24O acres have been approved by the California Redwood Association Tree Farm Committee, according to R. R. Chaffee, Berkeley, chairman of the committee. The new tree farms are located in the Redwood Region's Humboldt, Mendocino, and Santa Cruz counties.

The new additions bring the total of Redwood Region tree farms to 61, with a total acreage of 372,576 acres. There has been a remarkable increase in interest in the tree farm program, Chaffee said, with 18 new tree farms totaling 4I,7U acres certified during 1957.

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Of the new tree farms, those in Humboldt countv in- \-rr rne new lree rarms, tnose rn .trlumDolot county clude 24O acres added to the E. T. Robie Memorial tree

Farm northeast of Orick. owned bv Wendell Robie of Auburn. The two Santa Cruz countv free farms include the PCA Tree Farm, 7500 acres near Davenport owned by Pacific Cement and Aggregates, Inc., of San Francisco. The

San Francisco 4 new Mendocino county unit is the 53-acre Tree Farm near Gualala owned by W. Berkeley, a career forester with the U.S. in San Francisco.

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Boyd Adqms Ghosen to Heod 1958 NHIA Rules Committee

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R. Howden of Forest Service

S. Bovd Adams. Mobile. Ala.. has been selected to head the 1958 Rules Committee'of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, entrusted with the important task of evaluating the various suggestions made -by mernbers in the industry regarding grading rules changes or modifications. The Committee, appointed by President Hanlon, is representative of all the various hardwood species, producing centers and principal markets. Provinces of Ontario and Quebec are represented and, for the first time, the hardwood industry in the Oregon, Washington and British Columbia afea.

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