Lumber Industry Makes Good Progress in Reforestation

American Society of Foresters Finds 260 Companies Affected and 165 Under Full Forestry Management.

Washington, Dec. 3l.-Reassuring progress was made during 1928 by commercial and industrial forestry, according to a revier'v issued today by Franklin Reed, Industrial Forester of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, which states that 260 timberland companies are interested in reforestation, and that 165 are already conducting their operations under permanent industrial forestry management.

The nation-wide inquiry of the Society of American Foresters regarding reforestation is now rapidly approaching completibn and its findings up-to-date, says Mr. Reed, wfio is i member of its committee on industrial reforestation, indicate most gratifying advance over that reported by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States as a result of its survey of commercial forestry made in the summer and fall of 1927. This Society has been carrying on its inquiry in a careful and workmanlike manner for two or three -years past. Shirley W. Allen, Chairman of the Committee on Industrial Forestry, summarizes the findings of the inquiry so far, as follows, defining industrial foiestry as "the conscious effort to grort' timber crops commerciaily," and thus eliminating mucl-r natural reforestation:

Timber companies practicing industrial forestry.'.,. r1-6! (Excluding ealif., figures for rvhich are not yet available)