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Terrace Bay News, 7 Jul 1971, p. 5

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JULY Z, 1971] TERRACE BAY NEWS PAGE 5 50-MILLIONTH TREE PLANTED Toronto = A milestone in the continuing reforesta- tion program of a major Ontario pulp and paper com- plex was achived June 30th when the 50-millionth tree was planted on its forest limits near the northern Ontario town of Kapuskasing . The forest-based complex comprises Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company Ltd., Kimberly-Clark of Canada Limited and Kimberly-Clark Pulp and Paper Company Ltd. The companies have been engaged in natural and artificial regeneration programs in their Ontario forest operations since the 1930s. A symbolic ceremony was highlited by the plant- ing of a four-year-old black spurce seedling by Ontario Lands and Forests Minister Rene Brunelle at one of the Spruce Falls' camps. The ceremonies were attended by community leaders as well as company officials including M.S.M. Hamilton, president of Spruce Falls, and A..F. Haycraft, pres- ident of Kimberly-Clark. By coincidence, the town of Kapuskasing - the home of the Spruce Falls Power and Paper Co. Ltd., was celebrating its 50th birthday this year, with a week of festivities from June 28th = July 4th. As part of their overall forest management program, Spurce Falls and Kimberly-Clark operate the Prov- ince's only two private industry forest nurseries = one at Moonbeam, near Kapuskasing, and the other at Longlac, which is located 200 miles, northeast of Thunder Bay. The 1, 150-acre Moonbeam nursery, established in 1947, has produced more than 40-million seed- lings for planting in cutover lands in the Kapuskas- ing area, as well as on company limits in the Longlac area. The tree nursery at Longlac established in 1951, produced about 700,000 jackpine seedlings annually for ultimate transplanting in the forest area. In addition, the Longlac nursery includes an extensive seed orchard which is providing the best genetic characteristics for tomorrow's "super-trees". Between them, the Moonbeam and Longlac nurseries have provided the 50-million seedlings which are growing into future forest crops on the comapnies' limits, in the Kapuskasing and Longlac regions. Seed is sown in tha nursery seed beds during the Fall and kept there for two years under careful tending. Then it is transplanted into rows for a further two years. The seedlings are then ready continued page 9 oss S of TERRACE BAY 1 12 BIG DAYS=JULY 5th. to JULY 17th Long Sleeved DRESS SHIRTS on sanams | TIES. BELTS & SOCKS 157 OFF 10 7,OFF SWEAT SHIRTS 257, OFF 10/.0FF MEN'S JACKETS LADIES' SWEATERS 10 7.OFF POCKET KNIVES h(¢ LADIES' PANTSUITS ALL and DRESSES REDUCED WHITE MOCCASINS Vp ore SPECIAL DAILY DRAW for FREE SHAMPOO and Set at CHEZ MARGUERITE'S LOOK FOR UNADVERTISED SPECIALS THROUGHOUT THE STORE. PH.-825-3327

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