Assistant ag secretary asks wood conservation
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -
The United States must
learn to conserve wood,
rather than increase timber
production, if there is to be
enough wood to meet
society’s future needs,
Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture M. Rupert
Cutler said.
“Today’s natural
resources are becoming
scarcer and more difficult
and costly to extract,”
Cutler said. “Now and in the
future it may well be
cheaper to conserve than to
produce additional
resources. We must
restructure our policies to
address these new realities.
“We must deliberately
seek to hold down the rise in
demand for raw ■'timber by
meeting consumer demand
more efficiently,” he said.
“We can do this by in
creasing the recovery of
wood fiber in high-value
products, by improving the
efficiency in using wood
products for construction
and other purposes, and by
developing wood fiber
recycling systems to reduce
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our reliance on new wood
fiber,” he said.
Cutler said ways to im
prove efficiency include;
--Using experimental
truss-frame house designs
that could save a billion
board feet of lumber a year;
-Usmg smaller pieces of
lumber to make wide-width
and long lumber could save
another billion board feet
per year; and
-Making stronger papers
from lower quality pulps.
Cutler said some future
increases in timber
production were possible
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from public forests, but the
more promising op
portunities to increase
production are on private
lands. However, he said, the
overall increase would not
be enough to meet current
trends m demands, unless
wood conservation practices
are also adopted.
Cutler announced plans to
provide centralized ex
pertise for dealing with
problems of managing pest
vegetation, the brush which
competes with new forest
plantation. He said this
expertise in research and
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technology will provide
policy for using en
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ways to control vegetation
on forests and rangelands.
Because of the growing
public concern about the use
of phenoxy herbicides,
Cutler said he had instructed
the department’s Forest
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Service to use special
criteria to decide when the
application of the herbicide
2,4-D is appropriate. He said
using these criteria will limit
the use of this chemical to
the most essential needs and
consideration of human
health and environmental
concerns.
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