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Page 12, West Craven Highlights, December 29, 1983
It’s been estimated that
200,000 instant copies are
“born” every minute, total-—^
ing 100 billion each year in \
the United States alone.
Though the “565” was
designed for offices making
25,000 copies a month,
other smart copiers have
been designed for offices
with a bigger load. The
“787” makes 25 copies a
minute and was designed for
offices making up to 50,000
copies a month, and the
848” with an automatic
feeder and collator is used
offices making up to
Some of the most recent
ly introduced copiers have
minds of their own. One
smart copier, the “565”, de
veloped by 3M, uses micro-
Iprocessors to tell the opera
tor when problems are de
veloping. The machine also
“reads” the original and
automatically adjusts its im
aging system before a copy
is made. This Sensitron sys
tem saves paper by insuring
a good copy each time.
75,000 copies a month.
Annual Seedling
Harvest
It happens every year just like clockwork. Crews of
temporary employees go onto the Weyerhaeuser
seedling nursery at Goose Creek in Beaufort County
and begin taking tomorrow’s trees from their beds.
This year, about 30-million of the superior seedlings
are headed for homes on forestlands of Weyerhaeuser
and other owners both here in North Carolina and
across the South.
“We got a bit of a slow start this year just as we did
last year,” said nursery production manager Ron
Ramsey. “It’s been a warm and wet fall, so we didn’t
get going this year until December 6th,” he concluded.
After some time off for Christmas, the 43 person crew
will be lifting, grading and packing seedlings right up
to Valentine’s Day, according to Ramsey.
Weather is the controlling factor in nursery
operations and has really had an influence on the 1983-
84 crop of seedlings. The unseasonably warm weather
we’re now experiencing in Eastern North Carolina has
the crew lifting only enough seedlings to fill existing
orders so that the bagged seedlings have to spend only
one or two nights in the cold shed.
These little trees seem to take refrigeration better
when they have been exposed to cold weather in the
bed,” said administrative secretary Rose Faucette,
adding, “and we just haven’t had any really cold
weather yet.”
Back at the beginning of their growing cycle, there
were about 40-million seedlings headed toward a
future in the high yield forest, but weather - too much
rain and a hail storm - reduced that number to 30-
million. By mid-February, they will be gone and
probably planted in the South’s future forests.
About half the crop will be planted on Weyerhaeuser
Company lands and Tree Farm Family member lands
in North Carolina. The remainder will go to other
companies and other individuals across the South.
The nursery opened in 1969 and has produced about
40-million seedlings each year since.
OSPREYS STUDIED
Birds of prey are solitary creatures. In pairs, they
nest, feed and rear their young alone. Birds of prey
populations had a tremendous downturn in the 1960’s
and have only recently begun to expand again.
This may be true about hawks, eagles and their kind
in a general way, but it is certainly not true of the
ospreys at remote Lake Ellis-Simon in eastern Craven
County. There, these big fishing hawks live in a colony
and prospered right through that population
downturn in the 60’s up. to the present.
John Hagan, a doctoral candidate, has set out to see
why this happened. He wants to see if osprey, when
there are plenty of birds around, are truly social birds,
not loners and whether special circumstances such as
protection and community feeding of young produced
the colony and allowed it to flourish while other
ospreys were disappearing. He wants to see if these
migratory birds return to the same nesting areas each
year.
Hagan’s study, which began last spring, will
conclude in the spring of 1984 and is jointly funded by
the North Carolina Wildlife Federation and
Weyerhaeuser Company. During the past nesting
season, Hagan has observed 40 nesting pairs at Lake
Ellis and has banded chicks from each nest.
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