The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of short-term paraquat treatment without insecticides on the enhancement in oleoresin of pitch pine (Pinus rigida M.) at various distances from the wound height. The trees were treated with 0.5, 2 and 4% paraquat solutions using the bore-hole technique. Duplicate cores from treated and untreated sides of treated trees were made at 5 height levels (-0.3, 0.0, 0.3, 0.9 and 1.5 m above the wound height) at 3 months after treatment. The alcohol-benzene extractives based on unextracted oven-dry cores were taken as oleoresin contents. The results were as follows: 1. The effect of oleoresin enhancement at wound height were not affected by paraquat concentration. 2. Ascending distance of the enhancing effects above the wound height was directly related to paraquat concentration. Only in 4% paraquat treated trees, the effect extended to 1.5 m above the wound height. 3. As a result of examining descending distance of the enhancing effects at 0.3 m below the wound height, the effects extended to there in 4% and 2% paraquat treated trees.