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 Cruising the Nevvs 
"Two Giant Steps" 
(From the Griffin Daily News) Spalding Countians are delighted that the local for- 
estry unit has secured a fire trl.\,ck. With a 500-gallon water tank and 171 feet of three-qua~er inch hose, it offers protection which has been lacking outside the city limits of Griffin since the city ceased answering fire calls outside its bounds. 
To be sure, the single truck does not mean that county areas are anywhere near as well protected as the city. That would be impossible without a substantial tax levy. And it should be remembered that the primary purpose of the forestry unit is protection of woodlands Still, the Spalding rangers always have cooperated in fighting house fires, and we expect that they always will. Furthermore, a blazing house is as big a danger to setting forest lands on fire as anything we know. 
Spalding's county commissioners have worked for months with Ranger ] ohn Osbolt of Zebulon who is in charge of the Spalding-Pike foresters. Together they have secured the truck from the Georgia Forestry Commission. Every property owner in the .county thus owes them a vote of thanks. We feel sure that all appreciate what they have done. 
Simultaneous with the announcement of the county's fire truck came word that the City of Griffin will open bids on March 10 for the city's permanent new fire station and civil defense training center. It will be cons tructed just off Highway 41 on property purchased from the Georgia Experiment Station. 
This will be the "second fire station" that Griffin has needed so long. Its construction will be a dream come true to those who have worked toward better fire protection for the city for so many years. 
We hope that its completion may also open the way eventually to the city and the county working out some method of close cooperation in protecting heavily populated areas both inside and outside the city limits. 
In the meantime, as the children say, two "giant steps" have been taken. 
The First Forest Fire Laboratory 
(From the Macon Telegraph) 
That Macon is to be the site of the world's first laboratory for forest fire research is natural. Our city is the hub of a state that has time and again demonstrated its awareness of the vital need of conservation of timberlands. 
Georgia leads the nation in the planting of new trees. A 140 acre state tree nursery not many miles south of Macon is expected in time to be producing more seedlings than any such nurserv in the world. The state, as a result of a broad research program, is continually advising timber growers how to better cultivate and harvest forest lands. More and more of what was previously waste acreage is being planted in trees. 
But foremost in any forest preservation program is the consideration of the dread menace to timberlands the forest fire. 
Georgia has already made great progress in efforts to prevent and to combat forest fires. Fire-fighting units are organized strategically about the state. An airplane controlling service assists in locating fires. More and more counties are adopting the notice-to-burn 
 
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GEORGIA FORESTRY 
April, 1958 
Published Monthly by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION 
Box 1183 Macon, Georgia Guyton DeLoach, Director 
 
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Members, Board of Commissioner~: 
 
C. M. Jordan, Jr., Chairman Sam H. Morgan Oscar S. Garrison 
H. 0. Cummings John M. McElrath, 
 
Alamo . Savannah 
Homer Donalsonville 
. Macon 
 
Georgia Forestry is entered as second class matter at the Post Office under the Act of August 24, 1912. Member of the Georgia Press Association. 
 
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Dan Voss Bill Kellam, John Currie , 
 
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DISTRICT OFFICES, 
 
GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION: 
 
DISTRICT 1-Route 2, Statesboro 
DISTRICT 11-P. 0. Box 26, 
 
DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 505, Milledgevi lie 
DISTRICT VII-Route i, 
 
CamiiJa 
 
Rome 
 
DISTRIOT 111-P. 0. Box 169, DISTRICT VIII-P. 0. Box 
 
Americus 
 
1160, Waycross 
 
DISTRICT IV-P. 0. Box 333, DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416, 
 
Newnan DISTRICT V-P. 0. Box 328, 
McRae 
 
Gainesville DISTRICT X-Route 3, 
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law, But much remains to be discovered about such costly blazes. 
In the new laboratory, which will be constructed here at the Georgia Forestry Center at a cost of almost $400,000, state and federal forestry experts will be able to duplic ate actual conditions of a forest fire. Out of such research, we are confident, will come recommended new techniques for controling such fires with resultant savings of thousands of dollars annually. 
 
A First Place We Hate To Lose: 
(From tne ,\lacon Telegraph) 
Florid a h as beat Georgia in the race to lead the nation in certified Tree Farm acreage, according to the latest figures rele;sed by the American Forest Products Industries, which sponsors the American Tree Farm system. 
Florida, first state to pass the four million -acre mark in certified Tree Farms, holds the lead with 4,519,789 acres. Georgia is second with 3,909,103 acres. 
We have the notion that Georgia will regain the lead in Tree Farms. We hope so! Tree farming provides the wood Americans need for more than 5,000-odd items. It also means jobs for thousands of workers, better food and cover for wild life, greater opportunities for recreation, and perhaps most important, watershed protection with resulting soil conservation. 
We hate for Florida to get ahead of us. But we'll try to remember Florida was a Southern girl until she marri ed a rich Yankee, so we still lead Southern states in tree farming. 
 
 Governor Gr ijji11 , Re se arch Cou11cil cbairman Wallace Adams, 
and Director Fran k Albert ex amine arcbitect' s drawing of 11ew laborator y 
 
!Governor Grants Funds For Fire laboratory 
 
An ultra-modern $375,000 forest fire research laboratory-the world's fir s t-wi ll soon join Georgia's growing forestry city at the Macon Forestry Center. 
Governor Marvin Griffin recently granted the Georgia Forestry Research Council $275,000 to construct the two-story brick and al um inum structure, which will be situated just below the Georgia Forestry Commission Headquarters on Riggins Mill Road. Construction will start soon and dedication is tentatively slated for December. 
Research Councll Director Frank Albert of Macon said th e fun ds granted by Gov. Griffin would be pooled with $100,000 from the Council's budget to erect the ultra-modern structure. 
"This laboratory will place Georgia in the forefront of forest research," Director Albert said. "Gov. Griffin's support has given Georgia facilities which are 
attracting the nation's outstanding forest scientists to :his state to seek th e secrets of our forest. 
"The South is finally beginning to hold its own in .aboratory facilities ," Albert added, "after being held )ack for man y years by their absence.'' 
 
The laboratory will be staffed by approximately 15 scientists and will contain a wind tunnel, water model room, combustion chamber for free convection study, chemical-physical laboratories and a photographic lab. 
The building will be air-conditioned so that the temperature and humidity may be adjusted for various experiments' requirements. 
Research will be conducted by U. S. Forest Service personnel under a co~perative agreement with the Research Council. The Federal Government is expected to spend approximately $150,000 annually to s tudy the basic chemistry of flame. 
Director Albert said that 'blow-up' or large forest fires will be the laboratory's number one research project. Means of controlling the big fires, which have ravaged thousands of acres of valuable Georgia timberland, will be sought at the lab. 
Laboratory staff engineers will conduct basic studies on the amount of energy emitted by different forest fuels under varying climatic conditions and on local air movements which determine the behavior of forest fires. 
 
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All Georgia Forestry Comm1sswn county fores try 
 
a dangerous forest fire situation threat ens . 
 
units are now re ceiving daily fire weather forecasts 
 
Kr ueger compil es his forecasts from info rm a tion re - 
 
from th e new weatherman at the Georgia Forestry Cen- 
ter, Commissic,n Fire Chief J. C. Turner, Jr. announced. 
 
layed to him each afternoon from fire weather stations at county forestry units throughout the state. Coun ty 
 
Dan Krueger of the U. S. Weather Bureau issues daily 
 
rangers furnish Krueger with figures on fue l moisture , 
 
weather forecasts each morning \fonday through Thurs- 
 
rainfall, wind velocity, wind direction and the burni ng 
 
day. On Friday he issues a forecast covering that day 
 
index. 
 
and the following weekend. 
 
This state information is combined with national '"ea- 
 
Forecasts for each forestry district J.re broadcast by 
 
ther data to provide the Georgia forecasts. From a wea- 
 
Krueger over the Commission's state-wide radio net- 
 
ther Bureau facsimi le machine, Krueger receives wea  
 
work to the 10 district offices. They are then relaved 
 
ther maps showi ng :-..Jorth American surface and upper 
 
by radio from the district offices to, the county un-its. 
 
air conditions. Two teletype machines provide hourly 
 
The forecasts are especially set up to apply to forest 
 
weather repo rt s from throughout the nation. 
 
fire conditiOns only .md .ue not intended for general 
 
The weather forecasting service is sponsored by the 
 
public consumptwn. They .ue available, however, to 
 
Fore stry Commission, the Weather Bureau, the South- 
 
persons who need the information for outdoor burning. 
 
eas te rn Fo rest Experi ment Station of the U. S. Fores t 
 
The y are ;>\so useful in m;.1king special spot announce- 
 
Service and the Georgia Forest Research Council. 
 
ment s over commercial radio and television stations if 
 
 Hundreds Eat, Learn 'At Lincoln 
orestry Day 
 
Over 400 persons from three states attended the third annual Forestry Day of the Lincoln County Keep Green Committe e at Elijah Clarke State Park near Lincolnton recently. 
Ad ult s and youths alike consumed vast quantiti es of barbecue and forestry instruction during the day -long outing which featured the award of numerous fine prizes to winners of variou s forestry contests. 
Ben Ross of Lincolnton, chairman of the Keep Green Committee, was the main speaker. County Agent Gordon McGee was the emcee. Instructors on hardwoo d control, marketing, marking, planting and thinning included Consulting Forester Ben Meadows of Atlan ta, Dr. Larry Walker of the University of Georgia, Phil Archibald of 
th e U.S. Forest Service , Jim Spiers of the SPCA. r. A. 
McFarland of the SCS, R. E. Lee of Union Bag-camp Paper, Bill Schultz, Ga. Forestry Co mm iss ion , and Dorsey Dyer, Ga. Extension Service. 
] . L. Mason won th e adult tree marking contest and $50. John Jackson won the junior con te st and $25. Ray Crenshaw won the Timber Mark eting contest and a cigarette lighter and a certificate worth $ 100 on a Haffco..,\iercury chain sa w. 
Prizes were donated by Poulan Chain Saw, Farmets Hardware, Rees Hardware, Wells Service Station and Scaga Pulpwood Co. Scaga, T. W. Cullars Lumbe r Co. and the Farmers State Bank donated the barbecue, which was cooked by Harry Stewart. 
 
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Houston County's newest industry went Into operation 
 
roof. These include the packing and holding shed, 
 
last month with the planting of 110 acres of tree seeds. 
 
workshop and si:orage house. The seed beds required 
 
The G. Phillip \forgan Forest Tree Seedling Nursery is 
 
135,741 feet of pipe and 3,234 sprinkler heads. 
 
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superintendent and assistant superintendent. Six full 
 
mission 447.7 acres of seed beds. The 140 acre nursery 
 
time Commission employees will operate the nursery, 
 
will furnish the Middle Geor[:ia area with slash, loblolly 
 
with additional labor being added during planting and 
 
and longleaf pine and yellow poplar and red cedar seed- 
 
shipping seasons. 
 
lings, according to Commission Director Guyton De- 
 
The main building will also house a research labora 
 
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tory, which will operate on a co--operative basis wi th 
 
Reforestation Field Assistant Jim Wynens, who is 
 
the Athens-Macon Research Center. Research will be 
 
serving as temporary superintendent of the nursery, said 
 
carried out on disease and insect control and cultural 
 
that slash pine would constitute 75 per cent and lob- practices. 
 
lolly 23 per cent of the seedling crop. Yellow pop! ar and red cedar will make up the remainder. 
 
DeLoach said the new nursen will take some of the work load off the Herty, Davisb~ro and Horseshoe Bend 
 
Chief of Reforestation S. P. Darby stated that the 
 
nurseries by providing seedlings for counties served by 
 
$t!OO,OOO facility, largest and most modern in the state. 
 
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has all of its office and shipping facilities under one 
 
 ' moss aids seed growth Pine straw holds moist ure in seed beds Gigantic s t rau pile pr ov ides mulc h 
 
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1st District First 
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Fire Law Approval 
The First Forestry District is the fi r s t in Georgia to have all its counties approve the Notification of In tention to Burn Law. Grand juries io all 14 counties o f the district, which stretches from Burke in the north to Mcintosh in the south, have approved the county-option measure that requires all persons to notify their county forestry units before they set any outdoor fire s . 
First District Forester W. C. Harper of Statesboro s aid the measure has already produced a marked decrease in forest fire damage and has made the rang ers ' job of checking "smokes" much easier. 
''Our rangers have been ab le to advise more l andowners the safest time of day to burn their property for clearing purposes. Landowners have become more conscious of these factors which cause a costly fore s t fi re," Harper said. 
"They are learning the need for fire breaks to k e ep fires from spreading; and how the amount ot moi s ture present in forest fuel helps determine th e rate of spread and intensity of a fire." 
Harper pointed out that the me a sure h as cut operating costs of the county units. Rangers no longer have to spend time checking smoke of the previou sly reported fires when the s moke is reported by their fire to\\'"ers or air patrol. 
Bulloch, the 'home ' county of the district office, was the first to approve th e measure in July 1956. Chatham, Emanuel, E ffingham , Burke, Jenkins and .\1clntosh followed s uit th at year. 
Screven, Bryan, Evans, T attnall and Liberty approved i t i n 195 7, wh il e Lo ng a n d Can dler okayed it this year t o mak e t he pe rfect mark. In ves t igator R. :\1. :\kCrimmon presented th e measure to the juries in a ll the counties. 
 
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Forest management is a top level job in the Seventh District, according to District Forester Julian Reeves. 
There are 2,170,000 acres of forest land in the Seventh, of which 56 percent is hardwood, 20 percent, hardwood-pine and 24 percent, pine. The large amount of hardwood and the lack of hardwood markets presents an utilization problem to management foresters Floyd Hubbard, Charles Place and Fred Baker. 
They are combating the problem by informing the landowner on proper planting and cutting practices, giving undesirable tree cure and preventive measures and marking and inspecting timber. 
Reeves said that our problem ot tree utilization would be solved only when we obtain markets for our hardwood. 
Assistant District Fire Control Forester Armand Coty keeps the public informed about the Seventh's activities. He also makes periodic rounds of the county units to check equipment and administrative records. 
The cloak and dagger man of the Seventh is Herman Scoggin. He investigates fires and thefts and does his part in informing the public on fire prevention measures. 
District Ranger Pendley Holmes is the handyman of the district. He is combination carpenter, electrician , pi umber, and fire control expert. 
Radio Technician "Red" Robinson keeps the district radios on the beam. His present project is the installation of the micro-wave outfit that will be placed atop Mt. Armstrong. This will afford better reception than the present transmission system on Mt. Alto. 
Elsie Scoggins keeps the diary on the district's forestry forces. Paper work bookkeeping and listening to the tall tales of the boot wearers make up her every day duties. 
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Margarett Rose Rodgers .was crowned Miss Forestry of Charlton County at the recent Charlton County Farm Festival in Folkston. 
The 17-y ear old high school senior from Folkston was chosen from a field of 23 contestants. Runner-up beauties were Misses J olane Rawl and Betty Dow Majors. Queen Margarete will enter the "Miss Keep Georgia Green" contest in Atlanta May 1. 
Following the . beauty contest, Margarete changed from que ~ to majorette of the charlton County High School Band, which participated in the annual festival parade. 
Miss Rodgers is a chemistry major in high school and is minoring in music. Next year she plans to enter 
Brenau College in Gainesville and major in medicine. She is the neice of Charlton County Ranger Jasper Stokes. 
The principal speaker , state school superintendent. Doctor Claude Purcell, stated that pine, a basic item of our agriculture program, is changing our economy as its importance grows. 
 
Forestry unit floa! decorates Folkston parade 
 
Scholars watch germination tests at Macon lab 
 
Michigan University Stude nts 
Tour Macon Forestry Center 
Operations of the Georgia Forestry Commission in fire control, reforestation and management were observed recently by 21 Natural Resources students from the University of Michigan. 
The students, headed by Dr. Kenneth Davis, chairman of the Department of Forestry of the University of Michigan, were given an insight into the operation and purpose of the seed testing and extractory labs and the seed storage facilities at the Macon Forestry Center. 
Observation of shortleaf and loblolly pine management, in addition to various types of cuttings and their results , was made at the Hitchiti Experimental Forest near Gray. 
The students also visited the Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp . plant at Savannah while 'in Georgia. They visited similar installations in the Carolinas. 
 
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John Hammond, newly appointed management field 
 
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The survey will determine yield, disease and insect 
 
The impact on Georgia forest planting of the Soil 
 
incidence and the rate of survival according to site 
 
Bank and an increase in planting nursery-grown seed- 
 
index, climatic conditions, spacing, specie and age. 
 
lings has necessitated this plantation study. 
 
Information will be obtained as to how many seedlings 
 
Information from the study will be used by the Com- 
 
planted in past years have survived and developed into 
 
mission to make recommendations for future planning of 
 
satisfactory timber stands and the caused of unsatis- 
 
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Williams began his career with the Commiss ion ir 
 
May, 1951, as ranger of Cobb County. Williams the1 
 
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Rome from 1951 to 1953. He joined the Waycross offic(  
 
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in the person of ] ohn Looney on March 1. Loon e) 
 
moved from Thompson in the Tenth District. Distric1 
 
Forester ] ames Henson said the district would now b( 
 
divided into three management areas. The large numbe: 
 
o f landowne:-s necessitated this move. 
 
Fred Baker moved his measuring stick from the Fourtl 
 
to the Seventh Di s trict. Baker will be a roving distric 
 
Wayne Manning, Druid Preston and John Looney map management plans 
From the foothills of the Seventh District to the swamp lands of the Eighth, management has passed it s magic wand. 
Hank Williams succeeds ]ohn Hammond as State P ro jects Manager at Waycross on April 1. Hank was pre - 
 
man, aiding Floyd Hubbard and Charles Place in keep ing the Seventh green. 
Loon ey was McDuffie-Warren County Ranger at Thorn 
s on fr o m Oct. 195 3 till his move to Newnan this month 
Loo ney i s a Fore stry graduate from the University o Wes t Virginia at Morgantown, West Virginia. 
Baker began hi s career with the Commission as : patrolma n in Gordon County. He was promoted to Doug 
 
viously >tationed at the Eighth District Headquarters as Assistant District Forest ~anager. 
 
las Co unty R a nger in 195 3 and move d to Newnan in Oc1 1956 as di s trict ra nger of management. 
 
 Logging the foresters ... 
GEORGIA SECOND IN TIMBER GROWTH ... a recent U. S. Forest Service report revealed. The Peach State, which is rapidly becoming the Pine Tree State, trails only rain-drenched Oregon , according to "Timber Resources for America's Future." A net annual growth of 3,174 million board feet is added to Georgia woodlands, compared to Oregon's 3,560 million board feet. The 12 Southern states lead the nation regionally, growing 24 of 47.4 billion board feet produced by Mother Nature in the United States. According to the report, 2,370 million bpard feet of the timber are softwoods-primarily pine. 
 
Harley Langda le of Va ldosta, president of the Lang da le Co., was re c ently sworn in b y Gov . Marv in Griffin in Atlanta as a member of the board of the Her.t y Foundation of Savannah, one of the nation's outstanding fores t research organizations. 
SOMETHING'S COOKING IN BARROW .. . The annual Keep Green Barbecue of the Barrow County Keep Green Assn. will be held July 25 , Dr. R. L. Lott , president, announced recently. All members of the Association, which costs adults one dollar and children under twelve, 50 cents, may attend. The Association promotes soil and land conservation in the county , which won the state Keep Green Award in 1957. H. C. Williams 1s secretary -treasurer. 
UNIVERSITY FORESTRY CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS. .. Harvey Johnson of Albany was elected spring quarter president of the University of Georgia Forestry Club recently. Other officers include Austin K. Saville, Rochelle, vice president; Frank Kitchings, Waycross, secretary; Glynn Chesser, Folkston, treasurer; Wallace Spivey, Seagrove, N. C., parliamentarian; and Lester Chesser, Folkston, reporter. 
 
SNOW HAS THEM SWEATIN' ... Cobb County Towerman Fulton Montgomery and family were recently snowed in at their home atop Sweat Mountain in northeast Cobb County. To add to their troubles, Montgomery was stricken with the flu and was unable to bring in firewood. So Cobb County Ranger T. L. Holmes of Marietta went to the rescue with a tractor. He chugged up the unpaved snowy road to the tower and chopped a supply of wood for the family. Montgomery recovered and is back on the job. 
FIRST PULP AND PAPER DAY... was observed for the first time in the South on a large scale basis on April 15. Some 67 pulp and paper mills in 11 Southern states participated in the observance wi th public tours of their plants, woodyards and woodlands, banquets, civics club meetings and other programs. Kirk Sutlive, public relations chief of Union Bag-camp P aper Corp., Savan nah, was Georgia chauman for the occas10n . Gov. Marvin Griffin issued a proclamation hailing the significance of the day to Georgia. 
 
LANIER FFA'S ON THE BALL ..... The L anier County FFA Forestry class is 100 per cent active in home projects. All the members have planted an acre or more of slash pine seedlings and have seed beds. They are running germination tests in their forestry classes and many are thinning, pruning, carrying out undesirable tree, insect and disease control and are constructing fire breaks around their timber. Lloyd Shaw is the most active member. He has planted 21 acres of seedlings, has plowed five miles of fire breaks, controlled two acres of non-merchantable trees, done prescribed burns on 100 acres , pruned three acres and treated five more acres for insects and disease. The class has also helped county landowners with their reforestation work. 
 
Downing Musgrove of Clinch County takes the oath as th e lat e st member of the Georgia Forest Res earch Council. Governor Griffin does the honors in Atlanta. 
 
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Smokey say: "Man who set /orest /ires may make ash o/ himself" 
PREVENT FOREST FIRES 
 
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