Georgia forestry, Vol. 11, no. 11 (Nov. 1958)

Cruising the News
The Future In Pulp
(From the Fitzgerald Leader-Enterprise) The atomic age, we've been calling it. Some say the age of space or the missile era. We could describe the years in which we are privileged to live as the Great Paper Age. More and more paper products are being used, from the newsprint on which this comment appears to the container in which the morning's milk was delivered. The paper mills have a ravenous appetite. Consumption of pulpwood is increasing at the rate of 4 to 6 per cent a year and is expected to keep rising for the next 20 years. That means double the demand by 1978. Students of the problem forecast a paper famine unless pulpwood resources are built. The outlook is significant for the expanding pulpwood and paper industry in Georgia and the Southeast. The market for pulpwood and for paper products is bound to grow. There is prosperity in paper, but only as long as careful planning and conservation practices see to it that the supply of raw materials paces the demand for the product. Make a memo to protect timber resources. Do it now while there's still paper on which to write it.
Threat To Timber
(From the Adel News)
John W. Cooper, supervisor of the Naval Stores Conservation Program, states one cannot depend on the approaching winter to kill forest insects in our timber and forests.
Recent dry weather has caused the Ips and black turpentine beetles to multiply. The floods in the spring weakened the trees and they are more susceptible to insect attack.
The landowners in this area have already seen much of the beetles and should begin spraying at once. Those needing assistance should contact their Consultant Foresters, the Georgia Forestry Commission or Extension Foresters for guidance. A tree saved is money made!
Georgia Leads In Pulp
(From the Adel News)
According to the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Assn. , Georgia led the South in the production of pulpwood with an income of $77,180,000 in 1957- Georgia pulpwood was valued at nearly 32 million dollars.
It is believed that at least 158 of the 159 counties shared in . this income. There has been a trend toward the production of hardwood and a more efficient utilization of the trees.
In this vicinity it will be of interest to know that an all-time high of 6 per cent of the total production came from the use of sawmill slabs and veneer cores of which the pulp and paper industry provided a market.
It is known that the pulpwood industry in this section has long added to the income of the farmers as well as workers in this pulpwood work . We need every industry possible in this area to supplement the farm income.

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GEORGIA FORESTRY
November, 1958
Published Mcmthly by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION
Box 1183 Macon, Georgia Guyton DeLoach, Director

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Members, Board of Commissionerl1:

C. M. Jordan, Jr., Chairman

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Forest Research
Upped In Georgia
(From The Gainesville Daily Times)
Almost a million dollars worth of forestry research facilities will be constructed in Georgia within the current 12 months.
A $475,000 laboratory, to be used by the Herty Foundation, was dedicated last week in Savannah and by early 1959 a $370,000 forest fire research station and a $190,000 seed testing laboratory will have been completed near Macon.
These institutions will be working in all fields of the forest industry, which is one of Georgia's largest. Georgia is the second largest forested state and the second in production of forest products in the nation. This vital industry deserves research attention.
Thousands of individuals, many encouraged by soil bank programs and conservation plans, have at least in part related their futures to forestry by planting pine trees and hundreds of millions are planted each year on ground otherwise unproductive.
Through research faster growth methods and new uses for trees may be found. Such findings would increase Georgia's income and that of her people tremendously.
Perhaps through research better uses can be found for hardwood, which currently has little value yet is so expensive to cut that it can't economically be removed so that more valuable pines may be grown.
Georgia research, by the late Dr. Charles Herty, led to the use of pine for newsprint. Perhaps accelerated research will produce equivalent economic bonanzas in the future.

Rain
Cools

Forests;
Ban
Lifted

North Georgia fight g oes on

Top notch suppression work and widespread Thanksgiving weekend rains brought Georgia through its first major forest fire emergency in almost two y ears , Commission Fire Control Chief J. C. Turner Jr. said.
The rains alleviated forest drought conditions which were so serious that Commission Director Guyton DeLoach invoked the ' no burn' ban on ovember 25 in all Georgia but the First and Eighth Congressional Districts.
Ironically, the law which forbids all outdoor burning in times of dangerous fire conditions, was last invoked in January, 1957, in the First and Eighth Districts .
Commission personnel extinguished 942 forest fires from November 12 till the rains started on the night of November 25 in the Seventh District and gradually spread south. The crisis reached its climax November 21-25 when there were 667 fires. They averaged an estimated 10 acres each. The ban was lifted ovember 28.
"Our fire fi gh ters did a bang up job despite:. many obstacles," Turner said. "A high burning index, wind, frequent concentrations of fires in certain areas which caused dispersals of men and equipment, the arrival of the hunting season which put more people than usual in the woods - despite these adverse factors, our men controlled every fire on the day it occurred.''
"The co-operation of the press, television and radio stations throughout the state in publicizing the serious fire conditions and the imposition of the burning ban was a great help," he added.
The fire threat almost brought the 1958-59 hunting
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Gore, J ernigan check Refuge map

Gore explains ban
season to an early halt, b4t Game and Fish Director Fulton Lovell and DeLoach decided to let the sport continue if the imrods we re careful with fire. Lovell did call off hunting in Fayette County at the request of numerous worried residents. Fayette, located in the Fourth District, -has no forestry unit because it does not participate in the Forestry Commission's fire protection program.
The fire cns1s saw one notable fire prevention achievement. Managed deer hunts were staged on the Piedmont Wildlife Refuge in Jones County and the Clark Hill Reservation near the Savannah River without a single wildfire, than ks to an intensive on-the-spot fire danger education campaign conducted by the Forestry and Game and Fish Commissions.
Law enforcement personnel of the two state agencies explained the situation to all the hunters, distributed and erected numerous fire danger posters and patrolled the Piedmont hunt area with a Forestry Commission helicopter. The hunters co-operated 100 per cent.
The Fourth and Seventh Forestry Districts, which occupy the west central and northwest portions of the state, were the 'hottest ' area. At time s they averaged more than ?ne fire per county per day. Hi Storie Lookout Mountain , which extends well into Georgia from Tennessee, had five fires going on it at once in Dade County on November 25 . Commission personnel and civilian volunteers fought the flames into the ni gh t with hand tools to control them . Rough terrain prevented the use of mechanized fire suppression equipment.
A Commission fire patrol plane was sent from Macon to help direct the North Georgia fight. Some ligh t suppression units were pulled in from South Georgia to stand by at Macon for use in the north. The rains came, so they went home.
Although the present emergency is past, Turner said sustained heavy rain is still needed throughout the state to give the forests a thorough soaking as rainfall is far below normal this fall in most of the state.

Georgia's first forestry "Town Meeting" drew some 300 timberland owners and foresters to Macon to discuss ways to improve the state's 193,000 small, privately-owned woodlots.
The meeting was held in a large banquet hall of a local hotel to give timber growers, harves ters and processors a chance to tell their problems to the go vernment. And they did so - iQ. morning a nd a fternoon sessions in which they spoke informally from the flo or over roving microphones.
The U. S. Forest Service, originators of the nati onwide meetings, will analyze all the results and then make recommendations to Congress for an aid plan for owners of small timber areas.
USFS Region 8 Forester J. K. Vessey of Atlanta
explained the purpose of the meeting and then threw it open to discussion. He called the South the "Woodshed of the nation" and pr aised the Georgia Agriculture Extension Service's six-step f<? re s t improvement plan ~entioned elsewhere in this issue of Geo rgia Forestry.
Vessey said Georgia has 12.5 mill.ion 'acres of woodlots under 500 acres in size. He saidtwo-thirds of Georgia's woodland owners are farmers whose woodlots average 63 acres each. Incentives are needed to encourage farmers to increase present timber yields per acre, he added, pointing out that 10 million acres of Georgia woodlands need timber stand improvement work
at once. St ate Soil Conservation Committee Chairman Jim
Gillis Jr. presided over the ensuing floor discussions
which Col. Charles H. S. Russell, executive director of the Georgia Sportsmen's Federation, started by emphasizing that governmentforestry and agricultural agencies should sell farmers on using correct forestry practices and follow this up with ground instruction.
W. F. Hall of Spart a said small woodlots a re produci ng only 23 per cent of their timber potential. He urged farmers to improve production methods rather th an put

more land into timber.

A letter from a landowner was read which requested

that some means should be found to provide harrows and tree . planting equipment f~r small landowners. George

Martln of Bryan County said many counties have timber

growing demonstration plots and education plans which

farmers will benefit from studying.

The differences in the three available methods of tim-

ber measurement were pointed out. Government agencies

advocate the use of the Scribner scale.

Finances were termed the timberland owners' main

P.roblem, so farmers were urged to use the forestry por-

tlOn of the Federal land bank plan. It was pointed out

that repayment of land bank loans is based on amount of

timber cut. The use of lowgrade hardwoods was men-

tioned as a possible charcoal source.

Small woo~Hand owners were urged to take advantage

of the services of graduate foresters to improve their

woodlots. One forester is needed for every 40 000 acres

of timber.

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J. W. Lucas asked about the advantage> : and disad-

vantages of aerial spraying to control undesirable hard-

woods. Forestry Commission Director Guyton DeLoach ,

who welcomed the delegates, said the Commission pro-

gram guarantees a kill of 60 to 80 per cent but he added

that i:his method has not .been perfected. Results of two

years of spraying are being studied, he said.

Vessey sizes up situation

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Radiomen Get New 'Shack'

The newest department of the Georgia Forestry Commission has moved into the newest building at the Georgia Forestry Center. The Communications Department, which was recently separated from fire control to become a separate unit, has a new four-room brick home located next to the Center's 425-foot radio antenna.
A quonset hut is also being constructed next to the new radio 'shack' to serve as a warehouse, Communications Chief H. H. Cannon said. The new radio headquarters contains a workshop, a combination garage-workshop, a storage room and an office. The garageworkshop serves as a classroom for personnel training, as a Civil Defense communications center in times of emergency and as a repair area. New radio technicians will also be trained at the building, Cannon said.
Most of the testing and repair of Commission radio equipment will be carried out in the workshop, whi ch occupies one-third of the 'shack. ' Maintenance work which is too complicated for Commission facilities in the fiel d will be brought to Macon for remedying. The storeroom will not only contain various supplies and equipment, but it'll also house the Forestry Center's pow:!rful radio transmitter.
The Communications Department wi ll no w monitor all radio traffic mo ving in and out of the Center over the Commi ssion ' s vit al state_. wide communications sy stem , Cannon said.
Communications al so maint ains the vital radio equipment i n :he Fire Control Department's mob; le headquarters, which is used t direct operation s on 'blow-up' fi re s. A radio technici an in each of th e Co mm ission's 10 district o ffi c es helps maintai n more than 1,000 t wo way radios which are located in trucks, tractors , fire towers , fire patrol planes, district offices and county headquarters. These radios

Cannon teaches radio repair
not only enable speedy handling of many administrative matters, but they enable Commission fire fighters to answer fire calls promptly and co-ordinate and accelerate fire fighting activities in the field.
Cannon also handles equipment delivery, work assignments and the clearance of Federal Communications Commission permits and licenses. He is assisted at the Center by Radio Technicians Hyland Cosey and James Crow.

Hundreds Attend Management P~an Unveiling At Rock Eagle

Poor management practices, long a stumbling block to Georgia forestry, will trip up landowners no more if they use the six steps of the Agricultural Extension Service.
That was the message of forestry leaders to hundreds of Georgians from all over the state recently at an aU-day lecture session at Rock Eagle 4-H Center.
Industry, individual landowners, state and federal agencies and education were represented on the program in the center auditorium.
Senator Herman Talmadge, a long-time timber grower who granted tremendous support to forestry conservation during his gubernatorial administration, was the featured speaker. His address followed a morning devoted to the introduction of the production improvement steps by noted representatives of various
phases of forestry. Agricultural Extension Forester
Dorsey Dyer, who was credited with authorship of the plan by E.xtension Director William Sutton, ~xplained the need for the application of the steps.
"We need a good forestry program in the woods," Dyer said. "Our woods are a wildc:_rness of mismanagement.. .this program 1s not expensive in the long run," he em-
phasized. Georgia Fore.stry Commission
Assistant Director L. A. Hargreaves Jr. introduced the first step, "Fire Control." Without fire control there can be no other steps, he pointed out, reminding that one hot fire will undo years of management effort. He called for more individual fire prevention, as 98 per cent of all Georgia fires are man-started.
Eighth USFS Regional Forester J. K. Vessey of Atlanta said the second step was planting the state's 3,500,000 acres of unplanted land. This will double pulpwood production. However, he warned landowners to be sure they knew they were planting the correct species of tree on the land which was best suited for !forestation.
E. T. Newsome Jr. of Rome and the Georgia and Rome Kraft Cos. said that although Georgia leads in fire control and reforestation, it is

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deficient in timber stand improvement work. He said that each year one and three-quarter million acres of timber need thinning, insect and disease control and cull tree removal.
Consultant Forester Ed Knapp of Macon said many uses of wood remain to be developed or increased in this state so timber growers will get the full value from their trees. Wood residue and low grade trees need markets developed urgently, he said.
W. M. Oettmeier of Fargo, president of the Georgia Forestry Assn.,

said poor harvesting is costing timber growers more than forest fires. He predicted that the entire nation may be dependent upon Georgia for its timber some day, so we must waste less wood in processing and develop sound growing plans. He
said 20 to 25 per cent of a tree is lost through poor harvesting.
Jim Gillis Jr. of Soperton, chairman of the State Soil Conservation Committee, said the grower must take time to get a fair price for his timber.
"You can't spend 10 to 15 years producing the timber and then

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decide overnight to sell," he warned. He advised the landowner to seek the advice of a professional forester before selling.
Senator Talmadge hailed forestry as Georgia's number one natural resource and cited its importance as a source of income. He pointed out that Georgia leads the nation in fire-protected private land and urged those present to return and spread the steps' message they had heard that morning. Visitors climb six steps to reach meeting

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''What happened to my trees? Why'd they die?"
This old refrain rings through the Reforestation Department of the Georgi a Forestry Commission each year a s pine purchasers write beseeching, curious or furious letters asking remuneration or explanation for their dead Commissiongrown trees.
Unfortunately, about all the Commission can gi ve them is planting advice or sympathy, for most of the time carelessness or lack of knowledge by the purchaser or person planting the trees caused their death.
The Commission cannot accept responsibility for the trees' survival once they' re delivered to the purchaser because it has no control over their handling after that time.
The Commission does everything it can to see that only top-quality trees are sold to the public. High standards are set for the trees which are released. Millions of cull trees are weeded out in the nurseries' grading rooms each year and dumped back into the empty seedbeds to add organic material to the soil. Cull trees include those with crooks, forks , damaged roots or small size.
Opening bundles too soon before planting dries trees

The death of the little trees is more disturbing to the Reforestation Department than financial responibility for them, because the sole objective of the reforestation program is to put growing trees on every purchaser's land.
What can be done to eliminate this loss? Commission Reforestation Chief Sanford Darby has come up with some answers for the major causes of seedling mortality. Inadequate air circulation during hauling caused by improper packing of the vehicle , delays in unloading, improper storage and watering, breaking bales too soon before planting and delayed planting are some of the major trouble sources. Although the landowner receives his stock packed in damp moss, he must make certain that the seedlings do not become heated and dry out. Adequate ventilation and watering will eliminate this hazard. A spacer, usually a 2x4 or 4x4 board, should be used between each layer, especially if the bundles are stacked more than two layers high. The moss should be watered every two or three days. If the seedlings are to be held more than three weeks before planting, they should be "heeled in." This is done by digging a v-shaped trench and placing the seedlings on one side with the roots in a slanting position. The roots should then be covered with loose dirt, which should be thoroughly soaked with water. Seedlings can be kept safely in cold storage for two or three weeks at temperatures of 33 to 36 degrees. The moss should be watered regularly, as drying out can still occur. Should the seedlings freeze, they should be allowed to thaw undisturbed, Frozen trees should not be moved. Correct planting is a necessity. During transit to the planting area, the trees should be kept moist and covered to prevent exposure to drying winds. If the moss has been removed, the roots should be dipped in mud, as water alone will drown the roots. At the planting site, the trees should be unloaded in a shady place. Seedlings should be planted at exactly the correct depth. Longleaf and slash, in very sandy soils, should be set within one inch of the bud. On other sites, trees should be planted one inch deeper than the ground line where they were grown in the nursery. Seedlings should not be released too quickly while being placed in the ground during the actual planting , for they will fall back, or, if held too long, lean forward. The trees should be planted six to eight feet apart so they won't have to be thinned before they reach marketable size. This spacing takes about 650-800 seedlings per acre. For more information, a booklet, "Reforestation
Techniques," is available from Commission county rangers, district offices or the Reforestation Department, Box 1183, Macon.

Properly stacked bundles will not dry out B undies should be watered every 2-3 days Seedlings should be planted at correct depth, angle

Nurse rymen t{lke inventory sample

GFC Nurserymen Begin
First Inventory Study
The largest sampling study in the history of forest nursery production is being conducted by the Georgia Forestry Commission and the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station of the U. S. Forest Service . Commission Reforestation Chief Sanford P. Darby and Experiment Station Statistician T. E. Evans are making the seedling inventory study.
Preliminary results are scheduled to be completed December 15. The inventory has already revealed a gross production at the Commission's six nurseries of 392 million seedlings, of which 86 million are estimated to be culls. Cull seedlings are those which have been damaged by disease, root rot and fusiform rust, growth deformities, lack of bark, winter bud, stem height and diameter and improper lifting. These seedlings will be eliminated from those sold to the public.
Darby said the Commission hopes the study will yield reliable methods of taking seedling inventories which will also be faster than present systems. Inventories are taken each year at the nurseries to see how many marketable seedlings will be available to Georgians.
The s tudy is conducted by lifting a portion of each nursery's stock to see how the seedlings' tops compare with their roots' development and to find the percentage of culls in the crop.
Figures derived from the nursery surveys were processed at the IBM Service Bureau in Atlanta and at the Electronic Computing Service at Duke University.

SPCA Starts 12-State Forest Improvement Plan

The Southern Pulpwood Conservation Assn. joined the war this fall on the Southern woodlands number one enemy - poor management - with the announcement that it is beginning a 12-state 'pilot forest' project.
Already, in Georgia the Agricultural Extension Service has started a six-step forest improvement plan, the U. S. Forest Service has held a "Town Meeting" on management problems of small woodlots and the Georgia Forestry Commission is pushing its existing management program with an emphasis on North Georgia growing problems.
SPCA General Manager H. J. Malsberger of Atlanta said
the 'pilot forest' project, which will be formally launched in Georgia next April 14 on the second annual Southwide Pulp and Paper Day, calls for "putting selected farm or other
individual forest tracts throughout the South on the way to peak production."
"Although the forest income of the South has increased rapidly, we have not begun to approach the full potential," Mr. Malsberger said. "The 'pilot forest' educational program is designed to provide permanent examples to show the way to increasing farm income for timberland owners, thus enabling forest product operations to make even larger contributions to the economy of rural areas.''
"Putting all timberland into top production would, in most counties in the South , have the same effect on the county's economy as a substantial new industry." The initial goal is to establish pilot forests in some 100 counties throughout

the South. Pulp and paper companies have agreed to do a complete forestry job on these selected woodlots. This will include planting seedlings, controlling weed trees, harvesting scientifically, establishing fire control measUres and other required practices. All of the work will be performed without charge to the owner of the property.
After the properties are placed under ideal forest management, they will serve neighboring landowners as permenent guides to good forest practice. The owner of the land will receive all proceeds from timber harvests. The participating pulp and paper mill will provide free the necessary forestry supplies, equipment and technical forestry advice.
Woodlands selected for the mass rejuvenation program are to be typical of the area in which they are located and are to be easily accessible. Local agricultural and forestry agencies will be asked to co-operate in selecting the areas to be used.
Industry foresters assigned to the 'pilot forest ' projects will also make an analysis of the forest economy of the counties in which the demonstration forests are located. Results of the county surveys will be made available to businessmen and others "interested in community development opportunities.
State chairmen for the operation of 'pilot forest' projects will be appointed by the SPCA president at an early date. This will be followed by meetings in all states of representatives of the participating pulp and paper mills.

Logging the foresters ...

FIREME , SAVE MY TREE . .. . Cobb County Ranger T. L. Holmes fought a one-tree fire one recent night. Somebody, apparently trying to smoke out a 'possum, fired an old, hollow tree. Holmes & Co. chopped down the tree, raked a break around it and let it burn itself out. Neighbors stood by until the fire died out completely.
TURKEY TALK....Dr. Larry Walker's hardwood control report which he authored for the Georgia Forest Research Council was recently published in the Turkish Journal of Forestry. Dr. Ibraham Atay authored the translation. "Twas the first time I didn't understand a thing I wrote," the University of Georgia faculty member con fessed.
KIWANIS HEARS POLK RANGER.. . .James Carter of Cedartown traced the history of the Polk County For estry Unit for the Rockmart Kiwanis Club recently . He outlined the services available from the unit and praised Polk Countians for helping decrease the number of forest fires and acres lost each year since the unit was formed in 1949.
MORE CHIEFS THAN INDIANS.. .. A small fire at Kennesaw National Battlefield Park recently brought three 'chiefs' to extinguish it. Marietta Fire Chief Howard Schaeffer, Park Superintendent B. C. Yates and Cobb County Ranger T. L . Holmes all pounced on the blaze, which was believed caused by a careless hiker. They were assisted by numerous volunteers, who responded to a radio call for _help.
RANGER UNMASKS FORESTRY SECRETS.. . .Calhoun County Ranger Charles Mask recently presented a combination lecture and movie on forestry to the Edison Lions Club. He praised county residents for planting 10 million seedlings in recent years and said present orders were well over the million mark. The movie dealt with forest management.
FORESTRY DAY AGAIN . .. .}. B . White's Department Store in Augusta sponsored another salute to forestry in Augusta recently. Store decorations had a fores try theme and free seedlings were given to customers. Special exhibits were installed by Commission rangers, who also signed up kiddies as Junior Forest Rangers. Assisting were Richmond County Ranger T . M. St~ickland, Assistant lOth District Forester Bill Schultz, Columbia Ranger Lonnie Morris, Burke Ranger Charlie Claxton, and McDuffie-Warren Ranger Bill Munns.
PINES IN YOUR COFFEE (COUNTY) . ... The Douglas Ki w"anis Club has two mechanical pine planters available for reforestation work in Coffee and Atkinson Counties. The Douglas Lumber Co. and Rayonier, Inc., each donated a planter to the club. Coffee-Atkinson Forestry Unit personnel overhauled and painted the planters, which are available for a small operating charge, Kiwanis officials said. A reported 4,280 acres will be planted in pines in the counties this year.

After debuting at the Kaolin Festival parade in Sanders ville two weeks earlier, the Sixth District float appeared in the Macon Christmas Parade the day after Thanks giving. The first rain in many weeks made the parade pleasant for Smokey.
Forestry Commission Director Guyton DeLoach honors Mrs. Chester Martin of Atlanta, past president of the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs, for her forest con servation work . Joining in the congratulations are, left to right, State Soil Conservation Chairman Jim Gillis Jr.
and USPS Region 8 Forester f. K. Vessey.
ComT)'Iission Forest Management personnel attended a fou r-day training school in North Georgia taught by the U. S. Forest Service which included log grading study at Ritter Lumber Co. in Mountain City.

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NOVEMBER, 1958

Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Macon, Georgia

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TREES MEANT TRIUMPH AT TRENTON
It's a little known fact that George Washington and his hardy patriots owed their stirring victory over the Hessians at Trenton, New Jersey, on Christmas Night, 1776, to conifers. The red coats were so engrossed in carousing 'round the Yule evergreens that they didn't hear the ragged coats coming till too late. You, too , will be on the winning side if you plant more pines and follow sound forest management practices on the ones you already have.