Toward the end of the summer of 1945 it was announced that the salvage situation "was in hand," and the bulk of the "bug-kill" could be recovered and put to use at the pulp mills. Meantime, there was the problem of stopping the epidemic. Early in 1945, foresters and entomologists met in Portland to draw up plans for a cooperative insect control program under which united action could be taken against the looper as well as any other destructive forest insect.
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