GUNS Magazine January 1960 - Jeffersonian

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By IILl CLEOE
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cut Illinois tree farm annual fire loss.
THE FOREST STRETCHED BELOW as far as the eye could see.
Acr.o88 it cut the highway, seen through a carpet of green tree-tops.
Not a crossroad nor a building marred the perfect lawn of trees. At
intervals along the road, white diamond-shaped signs were hung on the
fence. In their round green.ball centers was printed the words, TREE
FARM.
They could just as well have said, "Game Farm," for the wood
products industries are telling the world about the wildlife that lives in
these managed forests. The significance of the wildlife is summed up in
the title of a booklet by Arthur Carhart, "Trees and Game-Twin
Crops." Says Carhart, "Wise management of timber and of game is
directed at the production and harvest of each as a crop--indeed, they
are twin crops."
Hunters are learning how this works. Around the 1,500 acre Tree
Farm of Mike Drumstra, of West Frankfort, Ill., the shotgun's roar is a
familiar sound. There, within an area which Drumstra transformed into
Private timber lands running to millions of acres are now open in all parts of the nation for hunters. Some
areas charge small camping. grounds' use fees but most are free. Tree farm plan calls timber. game twin crops.
24 GUNS JANUARY 1960