Forests in Embryo
p. 24 · Read in the full issue
The timber indutry in the Bulolo Valley, New Guinea, to be worked by Common wealth Timbers in which the Commonwealth Government and Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., are partners, will go in 50-year cycles.
Re planting of the P ine forests under the supervision of Forestry Department officers will keep pace with the cutting of the local pine to feed the plywood factory. By the time the original forest is cut out, a new forest will have grown up and be ready The top photograph shows of the young pine trees that have already been planted around the Forestry Station near Bulolo. Below: Under these shade frames on the same station are millions of seedling Klinki and Hoop pines which will be used