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DENNY AHL Seed Orchard, where tree farming starts.
THIS SEEDLING is seven years from seed, seven feet tall.
FLOURISHING STAND of Douglas-fir planted in 1952-53.
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land operated as a unit.
Currently the total acreage jointly managed is 347,159.
To date 35,621 acres have been put back into production
by the company through hand planting or aerial seeding on
the Simpson Sustained Yield unit.
In the Shelton District which comprises the Olympic
National Forest's portion of the unit 29,198 acres have been
reforested. This makes a grand total of 64,819 acres returned
to production on both company and federal lands.
Through sound land retention policies, Simpson's res-
toration of trees to its harvested acres has been in pro-
gress since 1890.
But formal reforestation began in 1943 when the com-
pany helped initiate the South Olympic Tree Farm in co-
operation with other timberland owners. This was the first
cooperative tree farm in the United States.
The impetus of Simpson's tree farming was 'super-
charged in 1946 when the Sustained Yield Unit agreement
with the Forest Service was signed. Both participants iri
this enterprise were obligated to reforest their own lands.
Harvesting and replanting are planned on a 100-year cycle.
Rehabilitation of non-stocked or poorly stocked lands
has progressed so well that all Simpson lands logged since
1947 have been reforested.
In 1949 Simpson built one of the first industrial seed
processing plants in the Pacific Northwest. Since then all
seed has been controlled for use on Simpson lands as to
site elevation and purity.
Both Simpson and the Forest Service have established
seed orchards where superior trees produce seed for plant-
ing on the unit.
It takes about seven years from grafting to usable
seedling with seed orchard and nursery culture, compared
to 15 years under natural conditions.
Simpson's seed nursery occupies 30 acres near Mat-
lock. Parent stock used there was seed from 15 superior
wild trees which were fast-growing, straight and tall.
The Denny Ahl Seed Orchard of the Forest Service on
a 35-acre fenced site near Lake Cushman is now yielding
excellent seed from parent trees which were high altitude
Douglas firs.
Scions from such stock have a better chance to sur-
vive at the levels where most logging is now done than do
those from lowland stock.
Growing superior seed or seedlings and using them
to restock timberlands is only part of the tree farming
process. An essential element is thinning the stand.
Dennie Ahl Seed Orchard, a U.S. Forest Se] ,ice project
located 18 miles northwest of Shelton, is producing
Douglas-f'n- seeds with an inherited potential for developing
into fast-growing, excellently formed trees.
It began in 1958 as a means of providing high quality
seed to produce a superior tree of the future. Today it is
producing such seed. The young trees that begin from these
seed will provide future generations with trees that are faster
growing, better shaped, and more able to serve man.
Since 1958 the orchard has produced 1,398,000 seedlings
which is enough to reforest the areas harvested annually in
the Olympic National Forest.
Initial results indicate seedlings originating from Dennie
Ahl will produce 20 to 25 percent more volume per acre than
natural stands under similar conditions.
Virgil Allen, the seed orchardist, conducts many
programs in order to produce his seed. Grafting of high
quality scions to established root stock, controlled
pollinations, insect control, fertilization and progeny testing
are a few.
Depending on the time of year and weather, one or more
of these programs is being carried on each day.
A self-guided interpretive trail is available for those
wishing to learn more about the interesting business of
producing seed and raising hybrid Douglas-fir trees.
Personalized show-me trips can be arranged for interested
groups by contacting the Shelton District Ranger, whose
office is at 2904 Olympic Highway North.
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