Proposed Redwood Forest Practice Code

Present knowledge of redwood forestry indicates that the required fundamental woods practices involve the leaving of a reasonable number of unmerchantable trees on cutover lands and such improvement in slash disposal as will provide for their protection.

Being in hearty accord with any practical methods of woods practice designed to improve the ,condition of cutover lands and to assure future supplies of Redwood timber, the California Redwood Association proposes to adopt the following practices for the conservation and sustained production of forest resources within the territory under the jurisdiction of the Association: l. All cutover lands after slash disposal will be protected from fire on a scale sufficiently intensive to hold average acreage burned to one per cent or less per year, provided exemption from such protection will be granted to lands set aside for the primary production of forage for livestock or other bona fide uses aside from timber production. Each person operating under this Code will furnish the California Redwood Association with a written description of those portions of his lands rvhich are to be set aside for uses other than timber production.

2. Logging slash on all cutover lands may be burned within one year after log removal in areas of not over forty