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ANOTHER ILL WIND

EDITOR: In 1889, 100 years beforeHugo, another hurricane struckCharleston, on a Sunday evening. Mymother, a small girl at the time, rodeout the storm in Williamsburg County,about 60 miles from the city. Hersturdy two-story building had beenbuilt of squared longleaf pine logs bymy grandfather, Samuel Isaac Mont-gomery, when he returned from serv-ice as an officer in the Confederate

Charles A. Connaughton, long-time director and former presidentof the American Forestry Associa-tion, died December 19 in Portland,Oregon, of causes related to oldage. He was 81.

Charlie was born in 1908 in Pla-cerville, Idaho, and graduated fromthe University of Idaho in 1928 wita forestry degree and from Yale in1934 with a master's degree. Heand Myrtle, his wife of 57 years,were married in 1932.

His 43-year career with the U.S.Forest Service began with a tempo-rary appointment on the Boise Na-tional Forest. In the early '30s heworked with the Civilian Conserva-tion Corps program, and was laternamed director of the Rocky Moun-tain Station and then the SouthernStation in New Orleans. He servedas regional forester of the SouthernRegion, the California Region, andfinally of Region 6, a position heheld until his retirement in 1971.

Charlie was president of AFAfrom 1971 to 1973, and president ofthe Society of American Forestersfor the 1960-61 term. Among his

army. It weathered the winds well, butmany virgin longleaf pines on theplace were felled.

Hugo's destruction of some of thefinest second-growth longleaf pinetimber on the Francis Marion NationalForest distressed me. As a private con-sultant hired by the Forest Service, Ihad recommended silvicultural treat-ment for many of its stands in 1975. Ihope that advance reproduction, es-tablished under the shelterwood sys-tem, will regenerate much of the forest

many awards was AFA's JohnAston Warder Medal and SAF's SirWilliam Schlich Memorial Award.

He is survived by his wife, Myr-tle, of Portland; son Kent of Beaver-ton, Oregon; daughter Sharon Eb-bert of Cincinnati; sister TeresaShawyer of Jerome, Idaho; and fourgrandchildren.

Charlie Connaughton toiled longand hard for forestry and for thisassociation. He will be sorelymissed. —WARREN POST

without the need for expensive plant-ing.

The forest's name is also importantto me as my ancestors served inFrancis Marion's brigade during therevolutionary war.

TOM CROKERGreeneville, TN

DEATH OF AN EDITOR

EDITOR: I'm positive that Tony Bouzaknows his literature well, but writerJohn Kostouros ("Trees, Crime, andTony Bouza", September/OctoberAMERICAN FORESTS) needs to bone upon his reading. Arthur Miller, not Eu-gene O'Neill, is author of the ac-claimed play, "Death of a Salesman."

HANNAH KIRCHNERIndiana Div. of Forestry

INPUT ON "NEW FORESTRY"

EDITOR: It seems to me that some ofour scientists are following a patternthat is a classic example of a fallacyused in logic texts. Hypotheses are ad-vanced as theories without a pattern ofresearch to qualify them. In somecases a hypothesis is presented asthough it were a scientific law.

Each proponent of a hypothesisgathers about him a group of discipleswho in turn develop a group of fol-lowers who often do not know the hy-pothesis, let alone understand it. If aqualified scientist questions the hy-pothesis, he is indignantly descendedon by the entire group.

Consider the scientist who ques-tioned the "greenhouse" hypothesisby asking why some segments of theplanet were becoming progressivelycolder. There is a need to question allthe hypotheses being advanced. Weknow practically nothing about the

Charles A. Connaughton, 1909-1989

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variations in the ozone layer over geo-logic time. It may have been full ofholes during some past era.

Now we have "A New Forestry"(Jerry Franklin, November/Decemberissue). We have the proponent of ahypothesis, his disciples, and a grow-ing group of followers. Many do notunderstand the hypothesis, but theylike its emotional appeal. Perhaps,they reason, it can be used to promotesome other environmental idea thatthey support.

There is nothing new about Frank-lin's ideas. Ecology and ecosystemsare not new sciences, although we arelearning more about them. I wastaught about forest ecology and eco-systems 60 years ago by E. G.Cheyney, professor of forestry at theUniversity of Minnesota. He was ad-vanced beyond his time in his con-cepts.

Almost every conceivable method ofharvesting Douglas-fir has been tried.All the methods Franklin proposeshave been used, and the results oftheir use are visible today. The youngforests, contributing to the environ-ment we like to brag about, exist be-cause of the harvest of "old-growth" inthe past and nature's "harvest" by hermethods of fire and other naturalcauses. Many of the past methodswere not dictated by scientific forestrybut were governed by the equipmentavailable, transportation, and the de-mand for forest products. The harvestwas but a segment in the growth of anew nation. We were too busy to beattentive to or interested in the scienceof forestry. Regardless, there is muchto be learned about forestry by carefulanalysis of what has gone before.

There are volumes written onDouglas-fir, yet I find no reference tothem in Franklin's article. Leo Isaac(Mr. Douglas-fir) spent his careerstudying this species. Is his effort con-sidered "traditional" and not relevantto the "New Forestry"? Has a newDouglas-fir been discovered whose sil-vical and physiological characteristicschanged in the last 50 years?

Statements made in Franklin's arti-cle are subject to more scrutiny beforewe submerge ourselves in the "new"hypothesis. What statistically soundevidence exists that fungi die if theirhost dies? I have read of fungi sporesbeing found in archaeological digs inruins 5,000 years old.

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THE-AMERICAN:FORESTRYASSOCIATION.41BOARD,i0FIDIREOTORS

TERMS EXPIRING IN 1990:

SUSAN FLADER CHARLES M. TARVERMissouri, Professor of U.S.Western and Environmental History

University of Missouri-Columbia Georgia, President, Forest Investment Associates, Inc

Virginia, Director, International Forestry Staff, U.S. Forest ServiceDAVID A. HARCHARIK Oregon, Director, 40-Mile Loop Land Trust

BARBARA F. WALKERand Marguorn Nature Park

LEE W. HINDS HAROLD R. WALTNorth Dakota, President, Acorn Consultants, Ltd. California, Chairman, California State Board of Forestry

DONALD C. WILLEKEMinnesota, Attorney,

Chairman, Minnesota Shade Tree Advisory Committee

TERMS EXPIRING IN 1991:

ROBERT L. ANDERSONMontana, Consultant, JOHN P. MCN1AHON

Washington Vice PresidentWater-Resources Engineering and

Timberlands, WeyerhaeuserNatural•Resource Policy

LYNN W. DAY G. ANDY RUNGEMichigan, tree farmer Missouri, attorney

MALCOLM GILLIS GAYLORD L. STAVELEYNorth Carolina Dean, Arizona, President,

Graduate School, Duke University Notional Forest Recreation AssociationTERMS EXPIRING IN 1992:

MOLLIE H. BEATTIE JOHN C. GORDONVermont Agency of Natural Resources

Vermont, Deputy Director, of Forestry and Environmental StudiesConnecticut, Dean, Yale School

JOHN L. BLACKWELLWorld Forestry Center

Oregon, President, New Jersey, President, High Mountain AssociatesRICHARD N. JORDAN

SARAH R. BOGDANOVITCH DOUGLAS R. LEISZNew York, Forestry Consultant, California President, Applied Forest Genetics, Inc.

T E M Forest Products, IncHYDE H. MURRAY

Bishop, Cook, Purcell & ReynoldsWashington, DC, Attorney,

PAST PRESIDENTS-EX OFFICIO MEMBERS:

CHARLES A. CONNAUGHTON THOMAS H. RIPLEY

Oregon, former Regional Forester, U.S. Forest Service Tennessee, Assistant Commissioner of ConservationState of Tennessee

North Carolina, President, The Storey CorporotionVOLT GILMORE HESTER L. TURNER

New York, Former National DirectorCamp Fire Girls, Inc.

PERRY R. HAGENSTEINConsultant on Natural Resources P.F. WATZEKPolilasnsadcEhconeozics

Mississippi, former President, AFA

CARL H. REIDEL WILFRED R. WOODSVermont, Director, Environmental Program Washington, Editor and Publisher

University of Vermont The Wenatchee Daily World

HONORARY VICE PRESIDENTS

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Predacious and parasitic inverte-brates are found where there is anabundance of food. It seems logicalthat they would be more abundant in adecadent timber stand and not inthrifty young growth. Hungry preda-tors hang around their food supply.

The "New Forestry," I believe, con-stitutes a political rather than a scien-tific approach to controversy. Politicscompromises; scientific truth does not.I do not believe that the "New For-estry" will change the silvical andphysiological characteristics of aDouglas-fir tree. I do not believe thatconcentrating on a single age class in aforest will solve overall forest manage-ment.

D. R. GIBNEYHusum, WA

EDITOR: The article "Toward a NewForestry" by Jerry Franklin describes arefreshing approach that has longbeen needed. Agronomic forestry maybe suitable for pulpwood productionin the South, but multiple-use forestrymust be broader in scope.

The article raises several questions,but the area most prominent is the ap-parent effort to de-emphasize the needfor regeneration. Perhaps that impres-sion is not intended, but regenerationis mentioned only in statements criti-cizing present methods. Yet Franklinsurely knows that adequate regenera-tion is an absolute requirement tomaintain the "forest." And, unlesscommodity objectives are to be en-tirely abandoned, regeneration mustbe of commercially valuable species.

Heavy slash is not a particularlygood seedbed. To what extent doesuntreated heavy slash reduce the areaavailable for regeneration? What is thepossibility that red alder or shrub spe-cies will preempt some areas? The Cas-cades have many millions of acres ofbrush that may once have been coniferstands. I assume that the "old-growthecosystem" is composed mainly ofpure conifer stands, probably mostlyDouglas-fir. If such species replace-ment occurs, will that not also changethe ecosystem? Would those changesbe more desirable—for us, or for theold-growth flora and fauna—thanthose caused by clearcutting? Andwhat about the fire hazard posed byuntreated accumulations of slash?

All such questions could not be an-

GARY SCHNEIDERTennessee, Associate Dean, College ot

Agriculture, University of Tennessee