You And Only You (1972)

well maybe I'm not so much of a wiggler but it gives me something to do while I week for a nibble on the fish line and then some folks kid me a lot because I don't catch many fish either I guess I just like to get out here with the trees the sunshine and sort of get in tune with nature it makes me feel like a kid again to snuggle down here in the forest and think about how long some of these trees have been here shucks a lot of these old trees have been around longer than I have and maybe it takes an old duffer like need to realize just how much our way of life depends on the forest [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we built a whole new way of life on Ben's of steel tied to their fire forest and we found a better way to hold them down yet we still haven't found anything any better or any prettier to build our houses out of either mighty comfortable on a cold morning our forests warm the pocketbooks of one out of every five wage earners that's thousands of people right here in virginia alone who support their families from the forest yes sir the mole Pines have earned the right to stand tall and proud and it kind of puts a lump in my throat when i see them little timers come down just to make room for something else at the end of them there were there is probably a shopping center our apartment houses are something else made of concrete and speed but even that's pretty hard to build without paper and thanks to paper we can see the world a little bit better and tell machines how to make it a better place to live in sure we need all the power lines and shopping centers and the like so what we have to do is grow more and better trees on the land that's left and I tell you it's time we got busy because each year we cut more fun than we're growing but our forests or our natural resource that can be renewed that means that when we older fellers are gone [Applause] we can be replaced with new life to keep things going but if someone doesn't take time to provide that new life life will vanish with no hope of ever getting it back Virginia is now six to four percent forest land but if we don't do something and assume it could be one day six to four percent wasteland how can we keep Virginia green beautiful and prosperous ask of Virginia Forester well mr. Rogers you have a fine stand of timber here and now that we've completed our survey I'd like to go over our recommendations for improving your timber stand I'm interested in knowing what you've found this is a Timberland examination map it separates your land into sections according to our findings in each area your pine in this area is in need of a thinning the idea is to remove the inferior trees so that the remaining trees will have room to grow this way we get much better timber faster thought timber stand improvement really amounts to is whittling away at the rough trees to produce something more useful you mean a lot of my trees over here aren't any good some are and some aren't some are diseased and summer to form and some are just growing too slowly look here on the post see these rings in the wood those are what we call growth rings each representing a period of annual growth notice how the outer rings are closer together this tells us that this tree is floating growth and is ready for cutting then you mean if we remove trees such as this the others will grow faster that's right these trees will never be good for timber but they can be used now for Pope woods so you see mr. Rogers with proper management we can enjoy the value of your timber today and improve the value of it for tomorrow that may give us better trees but what about those that have been cut shouldn't they be replaced yes but not in the same area over here is an area of hardwoods where something can and should be done a lot of these trees are forked and twisted all of the same age and simply will never get much larger yet some of these can be harvested and sold and that's where I plant our new tree right again when it's not quite that simple before we complained the pine seedlings we have to clear the land that sounds like it'll cost me a fortune no not at all the cost is easily justified that's why we recommend prescribed burning under carefully controlled conditions of course the first thing we will do is bring in a drum shop this will chop up all remaining material and leave it on the ground or it will burn completely then we apply off our line around the area to be burned we also take advantage of natural firebreaks such as roads and streams but we won't burn until the weather is just right and we have all the men and equipment in position richmond in richmond too we're getting ready to start scribe burn on the rolls track throughout 619 grid is 1 19 632 will be starting at nine o'clock and be finished around one over we usually burn in the summer so where do I get our new forest it's already growing in the state nursery the seedlings are grown in beds until their one-year-old they're lifted by special harvester that cuts them from the ground without damaging the roots the seedlings are then graded and bottled for shipment how do we ship the whole force that's no problem at this point a stake body truck one all a half a million trees that's a lot of course we need a lot of forest and as soon as possible yeah but a half a million trees is a lot of planning will help you there too we loan you're planning bars for use in areas where you have to hand plane