Storm logs get water treatment
Logs in a Forest Service stockpile at Balmoral are being preserved by a type of irrigation. Already, the service has assembled 350,000 cubic feet of logs from trees blown down almost a year ago. By October, the pile will have grown to 1 million cubic feet, which is sufficient timber to build about 500 houses. The service is testing the sprinkler method of watering logs to preserve timber. Its purpose is to prevent -ap staining, which sharply decreases the value of quality pine.
The technique has been used successfully in Germany. A Forest Service spokesman said yesterday that bad weather in recent weeks had slowed stockpiling. Work could speed up from now on. The service expects to store the timber for about two years. By then most of the timber blown down will have been recovered and exported or used domestically. The two varieties being stored are radiata and Corsican pine.
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Press, 27 July 1976, Page 1
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