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The motor truck will be a valuable aid in the working out of a sound national forest policy for the proper use of our timber resources so that the timber will be utilized to the greatest possible extent and at the same time methods taken to provide for the perpetuation of the forest for future generations. This suggests a way of opening the timber for the market on some of our national forests. Most of the government owned forests are situated in more or less rugged country back from the regular routes of travel. The timber on a great many of these forests is over-mature and should be cut but at this time it is inaccessible. The problem confronting the country is how to make it accessible.

The plan for opening these forests is to build permanent concrete or asphalt roads from the nearest commercial centers thru these tracts taking into consideration the aesthetic value of the location as well as the possibilities of logging the timber from them. The timber, then, is to be taken out, under some silvicultural system and under government supervision, by motor truck operators who build their own roads from the nearest concrete road to the timber to be cut. Under this system of management, the state and federal government pays a part of the expense of building the permanent road and the operator pays a small sum for the use of the road by being taxed additional stumpage.

The system of management has many advantages. In the first place, the mature timber will be logged, the older decadent material coming out first, in small bodies and at the same time care being taken to reproduce a new stand. The total area is divided so that as the timber is logged in rotation a continuous cutting will be assured. Due to the use of the trucks and on account of the timber being cut in rotation, the fire danger will be greatly lessened. In case a fire gets beyond control, the roads thru the forest make an excellent way to bring in men and supplies to fight the fire. In this way, a fire is readily accessible in a few hours where formerly it took perhaps several days to organize the fire fighting party and reach the scene of action. The concrete roads themselves make good fire lines. By means of the good roads, the forest is opened to campers and tourists each of whom pays a small sum as they enter the forest to help pay for the cost of building the roads and to provide funds for more extensive highways. In this way the forest is opened for the timber, the best methods of utilization and forest regeneration are practiced, fire hazard is reduced, and the area is opened as a recreational ground so that the greatest possible value is obtained from the tract.

A great many other uses of the motor truck for logging and scientific forest utilization are being recognized, as example, for transporting pulpwood, veneer stock, cordwood, rosin and turpentine, and other forest products. Suffice it to say that this method of transportation has found a place in the industry and is here to stay. Its value has been recognized beyond doubt and in the future will play an important part in the further development of this country.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1916. Motor Truck Logging. The Power Wagon. Sept. 15. Page 34. (Periodical).

1916. The Law of the Public Highway in Washington. West Coast Lumberman. Sept. 15. Page 23. (Periodical).

1916. Motor Truck Logging Now Making Great Strides on the Pacific Coast. West Coast Lumberman. Nov. 1. Page 260. (Periodical).

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1918. Operating Cost of Motor Trucks Computed. H. S. Finch. Timberman. Feb. 1. Page 60. (Periodical).

1918. Winch for Motor Trucks. American Lumberman. Mar. 2. Page 58. (Periodical).

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1918. Road Construction for Motor Trucks. Jay C. Smith. Timberman. April 1. Page 38. (Periodical).

1918. Adjustable Reach Logging Trailer. American Lumberman. May 18. Page 63. (Periodical).

1918. Demonstrating Duplex Trucks. American Lumberman. June 1. Page 63. (Periodical).

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The writer has drawn freely from the material found in the above periodicals and trade journals, but wishes to acknowledge the greater bulk of information in writing this paper received from the various truck salesmen and truck operators who were interviewed personally. Without their assistance, the gathering of this information would have been impossible.

Publications of the Engineering Experiment Station University of Washington

=Bulletin No. 1=--Creosoted Wood Stave Pipe and Its Effect Upon Water for Domestic and Irrigational Uses. 1917. (Bureau of Industrial Research.) 20 pp. Price, 25 cents.

=Bulletin No. 2=--An Investigation of the Iron Ore Resources of the North-west. By William Harrison Whittier. 1917. (Bureau of Industrial Research.) 128 pp. Price, 60 cents.

=Bulletin No. 3=--An Industrial Survey of Seattle. By Curtis C. Aller. 1918. (Bureau of Industrial Research.) 64 pp. Price, 50 cents.

=Bulletin No. 4=--A Summary of Mining and Metalliferous Mineral Resources in the State of Washington with Bibliography. By Arthur Homer Fischer. 1919. 124 pp. Price, 75 cents.

=Bulletin No. 5=--Electrometallurgical and Electrochemical Industry in the State of Washington. By Charles Denham Grier. 1919. 43 pp. Price, 50 cents.

=Bulletin No. 6=--Ornamental Concrete Lamp Posts. By Carl Edward Magnusson. 1919. 24 pp. Price, 40 cents.

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=Bulletin No. 8=--Voltage Wave Analysis with Indicating Instruments. By Leslie Forrest Curtis. 1920. 28 pp. Price, 50 cents.

=Bulletin No. 9=--The Coking Industry of the Pacific Northwest. By Joseph Daniels. 1920. 36 pp. Price, 60 cents.

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=Bulletin No. 11=--The Theory of Linear-Sinoidal Oscillations. By Henry Godfrey Cordes. 1920. 24 pp. Price, 40 cents.

=Bulletin No. 12=--Motor Truck Logging Methods. By Frederick Malcolm Knapp. 1921. 52 pp. Price, 50 cents.

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