Georgia forestry, Vol. 23, no. 1 (Mar. 1970)

Georgia

FORESTRY

Mar., 1970

No.1

Vol. 23

Published Quarterly by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION
Box819 Macon, Georgia 31202

Georgia Forestry Mailing Address Route 1, Box 85
Dry Branch, Georgia 31020

OFFICIALS A. Ray Shirley Director

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

Hugh M. Dixon chairman
W. George Beasley M. E. Garrison L. H. Morgan Alexander Sessoms

Vidalia
Lavonia Homer Eastman Cogdell

CONTENTS
Forester Joiris Planning and Development Commission Staff......................................3 Cultural Practices Upgraded........................................................................................4 Georgia Nears 7 Million Cord Production ...................................................................S Mead Announces Expansion.......................................................................................5 Humphries Elected.....................................................................................................S Craven is Forester of the Year....................................................................................fi Morgan Reappointed ..................................................................................................} Report Cites New Programs........................................................................................7 Interstate Initiates Assistance Program .......................................................................B Forestry in Watershed Management............................................................................9 Teacher Institutes Scheduled.................................................................................... 10 Applications Available for Workshop........................................................................10 Ranger of the Ouarter...............................................................................................11 Forestry Faces and Places......................................................................................... 11 Retirements .............................................................................................................. 12 Brender Receives Technical Award ........................................................................... 13
Callaway is SCL Forestry Winner............................................................................ .13
Logging The Foresters..........................................................................................14-15
Cruising The News

STAFF
Frank E. Craven. Editor Thomas R. Fontaine, Jr.Assoc. Ed. Thomas B. Hall Artist
DISTRICT OFFICES GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION
DISTRICT I Route 2 Statesboro, 30458
DISTRICT II P. 0. Box 429 Camilla, 31730
DISTRICT Ill . P. 0. Box 169 Americus, 31709
DISTRICT IV P. 0. Box 333 Newnan, 30263
DISTRICT V P. 0. Box 96 McRae, 31055
DISTRICT VI P. 0. f?ox 881 Milledgeville, 31061
DISTRICT VII - P. 0. Box 2136 Rome, 30161
DISTRICT VIII - P. 0. Box 1160 Waycross, 31501
DISTRICT IX - P. 0. Box 416
Gainesville, 30501 DISTRICT X - Route 2
Washington, 30673
Member of the Georgia Press Association
Second class postage paid at Dry Branch, Georgia

Action Line
The U.S. Forest Service thinks that uncounted millions of acres of trees have been saved since Smokey Bear was introduced in 1945. In that year 18 million forest acres were burned, but in 1968 the figure was down to 4.5 million acres nationally.
(From the Atlanta Constitution)
Rags To Riches
The tourists who visit Georgia each year and marvel at the acres and acres of Pine Trees are viewing the conclusion of one of the great rags to riches sagas in state industrial annals. Just five decades ago experts predicted Georgia forests and, consequently, the lumber industry, would become part of the past within 10 years. But today the Georgia Chamber of Commerce has designated this week as a salute to the lumber wood products industry, the fifth in the state.
Thanks to the farsightedness of Georgia businessmen, state forests have not only been saved, but today are the national leader in the number of tree farm acreage and in privately owned farm land.
At the same time, the lumber wood products and furniture industries have surged forward. Some 33,500 state residents are employed in this expanding industry, earning more than $132.8 million anhually.
Presently 17,500 of these are employed at logging camps in 127 counties and 8,200 more in millwork producing enough finished lumber each year to build 120,000 houses and 17 per cent of all lumber used in this nation for all purposes.
Thousands of others are engaged in the manufacturing of finished household furniture at the 234 firms located in 76 counties throughout the state.
The contributions of this industry do not end here, though. Some 24.8 million acres, 69 per cent of the total land area of the state, are currently sewn in timber and the industry has made available 3.3 million acres of woodland for use of outdoorsmen for hunting, fishing, camping, hiking and swimming.
The lumber wood products and furniture industry have become a major industrial force in this state and we salute them for their contributions, both to the economy and in the area of public service. Thanks to them, lumber is big business.
(From the Macon News)

Archie R. McEuen, project forester, Greenville, has been assigned to the staff of the Slash Pine Area Planning and Development Commission in Waycross.
This marks the first time that a forester has been included on a planning and development staff, according to the joint announcement by Ray Shirley, director, Georgia Forestry Commission and Max W. Harral, executive director of the Plann ing and Development Com mission .
Shirley stated that the experimental program, jointly sponsored by the two agencies, is being financed under a grant from the U.S. Forest Service. The purpose of the program is to explore areas in which the discipline and experience of a forester can be used to the best advantage, Shirley po inted out.
McEuen's title is " Economic Plan ner" with his work relating to industrial development, land use, tourism and recreation and natural resources Harral said . McEuen will research forest resources and work toward better utilization of these resources. He will coordinate research activities and draw upon available services on the State and Fed eral levels in wood utilization, Harral added .
Shirley said that the Forestry Commission selected the Slash Pine Commis-

Forestry First
Forester Joins Planning And Development Commission Staff
Max W. Harral, executive director, maps out work plan with Archie McEuen, left, for nine county area covered by the Planning and Development Commission.

Archie McEuen, economic planner, right, works with industry on better utilization of raw material.

sion for this program because over 74 percent of its land area was in forest. In addition, the program of this group is comprehensive enough to enable the forester to participate in a broad role of planning and development. The nine county area includes Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill , Brantley, Charlton , Clinch, Coffee, Pierce and Ware .
McEuen came with the Forestry Com mission in 1959 as an assistant district forester in the Newnan District with offices at Greenville. He was made a project forester under the Commission's reorganization plan in July 1969.
A native of Waycross, McEuen gradu ated from the University of Georgia School of Forest Resources in 1959. Earlier, he attended Valdosta State Col lege and ABAC at Tifton.
McEuen is a member of the Society of American Foresters and the Greenville Masonic Lodge 321 of which he has served as secretary.
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The implementation of the forestry phase of the Resource Conservation and Development Program is in its fifth year.
The forestry phase of the RC&D project, extending over a 15 year period, involves the development of forest resources in Gwinnett County according to Crawford Cooper, area forester, Georgia Forestry Commission. Cooper point ed out that the work plan was initially based on 1964 forest conditions and management practices.

At that time poor marketing and cultural practices were being followed; and unwise timber harvesting methods and inadequate markets existed.
These conditions and situations have been combatted with the compilation of 487 management plans, the planting of 432,100 tree seedlings, the natural seeding of 8,750 acres and the selective marking of 438,000 board feet of sawtimber and 4,598 cords of pulpwood on 3,839 acres.

Adequate forest protection is essential in a forest based economy. This is being achieved through the Gwinnett County Forestry Unit, Ray Thomas, ranger. In 1968 the Unit personnel suppressed 163 wildfires that burned 454 forest acres for an average of 2.79 acres per fire.
Cooper pointed out that this is just a beginning of an effort to provide timber stand improvement on 81,000 forest acres, to plant 17,000 acres of old fields and idle land and convert some 16,000 acres into merchantable timber.
Since the program inception, Cooper cited the growth of forest industries in Gwinnett County. Stumpage returns to landowners have increased seven times
to $3 million; wpod -using industry pay rolls have more than doubled from $1 .3 million to $3.1 million. It is estimated that the 27 forestry oriented industries in Gwinnett County generate $6 million into the economy of Gwinnett County annually .
Cooper added that the success of the RC&D Program is due to its unique origin and cooperative community spirit of local people realizing their needs in various areas of development. Gwinnett County has the distinction of being the first urban-rural area to participate in in the program .

Landowner Hugh T. Cates consults Crawford Cooper, area forester, Georgia Forestry Commission, Lawrenceville, on cutting practices to be carried out on this 25 year old natural stand of loblolly pine. The first cutting will eliminate deformed and diseased trees, and is aimed at increasing the growth rate of the stand. 4

Loyd L. Harris, coordinator, RC&D Program, Gwinnett County, right, and Crawford Cooper, area forester, Georgia Forestry Commission, inspect a site that is among the 17,000 acres of idle land that are in need of planting. Planting on such areas makes the land productive and enhances soil and water use.

Georgia Nears

MEAD

7 Million Corel ANNOUNCES

Production EXPANSION

Georgia, for the 21st consecutive year, has led the South in pulpwood production. The 1968 production of 6,919,300 cords was an increase of nine percent over 1967, according to the report Southern Pulpwood Production, 1968, released by the USDA Forest Service in cooperation with the South eastern and Southwestern Divisions of the American Pulpwood Association .
Alabama was second with a production of 6,131,100 cords of round pulpwood and residues. The South established another record high of 37,075,355 cords, an increase of 10 percent over 1967.
Other southern states producing more than two million cords were Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia .
Georgia had seven of the 49 counties that produced over 100,000 cords each. They were Appling, Camden, Clinch, Echols, Jeff Davis, Ware and Wayne Counties. Wayne County led Georgia with 192,440 cords.

Three Alabama counties led the South in pulpwood production. They were Baldwin, 228,617 ; Washington, 218,2.69; and Choctaw, 201,214 cords.
Georgia again led the South in wood residue production with 1,127,1 00 cords, a 25 percent increase over 1967. Wood residue production in the South was more than 715 million cords, a 17 percent increase over the previous year.
The daily pulping capacity for Georgia's 15 pulpmills was 13,366 tons per day. This is an increase of 463 tons per day for the reporting period. The expansion of existing mills and construe , tion of seven new mills boosted daily pulping capacity to 77,140 tons for the South . There were 100 southern pulpmills operating, and four more were under construction at the end of 1968.
The report includes charts and graphs on the number of companies procuring wood, mill capacity, production increases and declines and detailed tables on all phases of production by state. Hardwood and pine pulpwood cordage is listed by state and county.

The Mead Corporation's Paperboard Production Division has announced plans for a 30,000 square foot addition to its plant in the Macon Airport Industrial Park. Russell Vannatta, division vice president and general manager said that this would bring the plant to a total of 83,000 square feet.
The expansion represents the second addition to the plant since it was built in 1965. The first expansion added 32,000 square feet to the original 20,000 square feet.
The latest addition, Vannatta added, will provide additional space for the manufacture of large, specially coated collapsible paperboard drums. These are primarily used as containers for asphalt.
The local plant also converts Kan kraft, a kraft paperboard product used in the manufacture of composite cylindrical containers for packaging oil, citrus concentrates and other products.
Humphries
Elected
William C. Humphries, Jr., Jeffersonville, has been elected chairman of the Ocmulgee Sub-Chapter of the Georgia Chapter, Society of American Foresters.
Humphries, a consulting forester, succeeds W.H . McComb of Macon. The 100 member Sub-Chapter consists of foresters from the Middle Georgia area.
Other officials elected were Paul Traylor, vice chairman; and John Deeming, secretary-treasurer, both of Macon . CurtisS. Barnes, Macon; and William L. Sparkman, Perry, were named to serve a two -year term on the board of directors.
Humphries stated that the purpose of the Sub-Chapter is to act as a sounding board for area foresters to express their views on current forest related programs.
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Craven Is Forester Of The Year

staff, The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta; Educator, Dr. Hubert B. Owen,s, dean , School of Environmental Design, Uni versity of Georgia, Athens; and Soil, Lamar Franklin, Marietta.
The list included Water, George Bagby, director, Georgia Game and Fish Commission, Atlanta; Wildlife, Mrs. Charles Yarn ; and Legislative, Representative Reid Harris, Brunswick.
FFA and 4-H youth were recognized for their achievements. Mark Reed Callaway , Ringgold , was the Youth Con servation winner representing the Seventh Congressional District. District

winners were First, Andy Burns, Tifton;

Second, Mike Sumner, Sumner; Third, Gayle Smith, Georgetown; Sixth , Kerry Steed, Roopville; Eighth, Janet Gaskin, Lakeland; Ninth , Melvina Ray, Talking Rock ; and Tenth, Carol Thomas, Covington .

Governor Lester Maddox presents Mrs. Charles Yarn of Atlanta with a mounted eagle which designates her as the 1969 State Conservationist of the Year.
Atlantan Mrs. Charles Yarn has been presented the Governor's Award as Georgia's top conservationist of the year . Frank E. Craven, chief, Georgia Forestry Commission Education Division, Macon, was named Forester of the Year .
The presentations were made by Governor Lester Maddox at the recent annual meeting of the Georgia Sportsmen's Federation in Thomaston. The Sears Roebuck Foundation sponsored the awards program .
Mrs. Yarn was cited for her efforts in the purchase of Egg and Wolf Islands by the National Nature Conservancy, Inc .
Craven was recogni zed for his leadership on the Georgia Natural Resource Use Council, the development of a State Champion Tree Program and promotion of the national program in which Georgia contributed seven national champions in the 1968-69 fiscal year to the Social Register of Big Trees. His con tributions as chairman of the Georgia Chapter, Society of American Foresters and the Georgia Chapter, Soil Conserva -

The outstanding Sportsmen's Club was the Monroe County Club headed by Jim Hampton.
All state winners are entered in national competition . The competition will take place at the 1970 annual meeting of the National Wildlife Federation .

tion Society of America were pointed out.
Other conservation winners were
Communications, Bob Harrell, news

Governor Lester Maddox presents Frank Craven, chief, Forest Education, Georgia Forestry Commission, with a mounted elk which designates him as the 1969 Forester of the Year.

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MORGAN

REAPPOINTED

L. H. "Luke" Morgan of Fitzgerald has been reappointed to the Board of the Georgia Forestry Commission by Governor Lester Maddox . Morgan, reappointed for a seven year term, is one of five Commissioners who supervise the forestry program in Georgia.
Other members of the Board are Hugh M. Dixon, chairman, Vida lia; W. George Beasley, Lavonia; M . E. Garrison, Homer; and Alexander Sessoms, Cog dell.
Morgan is an area supervisor with ITT Rayonier, Inc. in charge of the chip mill plant at Fitzgerald . In 1956 he went with Rayonier as tract manager

Governor Lester Maddox appoints L.H. Morgan, left, to a new seven year term on the Forestry Commission Board.

at Kingsland in Camden County. He was put in charge of their land acquisi tions in Georgia later in 1956. Morgan was made an area supervisor in charge of management and procurement in the Eastman area in 1962.
The Commission Board member served as a legislative aide to former Governor Carl Sanders when the legislature was in session. He was a Sergeant-At Arms for the Georgia delegation at the 1964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.
The native of Wray is a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Forestry Association .

Report Cites Neww Programs

The Georgia Forestry Commission's 1969 annual report, featuring its ser vices to Georgia landowners, shows new programs initiated and progress in every area of service.
Ray Shirley , Commission director, cited the Rural Fire Defense Program for giving communities, not protected by organized fire departments, an opportunity to reinforce present equipment. During the program's initial year, 103 pieces of fire equipment were placed in 94 communities in 60 counties.
In the field of reforestation, 20.7 million improved or "super" loblolly and slash pine tree seedlings were made available to the general public . Shirley pointed out that this marked the fifth consecutive year that these "super" trees have been available to the public. He noted that seed were planted to pro duce another 28 million improved trees for the 1969-70 planting season .
During the reporting period, the num ber of forest fires decreased 20 percent and the forest acreage loss was decreased 50 percent over the 1967-68 fiscal year. Shirley emphasized that only

41 ,854 forest acres were burned by wildfire of the 24,066,400 private forest acres protected.
Shirley added that the Forestry Com mission provided technical forestry assistance to more landowners than ever

before. There were 19,616 landowners assisted . Through the Atlanta Metro Forestry Program, increasing service is being rendered to homeowners in the six county area . This type service has also increased in all areas of the State.
7

Interstate Initiates Assistance Program

Interstate Paper Corp., Riceboro, has launched a new program to assist pri vate landowners in its wood procurement area reforest cutover woodlands area and improve timber stands.
William J. Verross, Interstate general manager, says his company has placed in operation $200,000 worth of heavy equipment to assist coastal Georgia land owners in clearing, site preparation and tree planting of cutover woodlands.
The company's initial reforestation work is currently underway in Jeff Davis County on lands owned by William Belote of Dublin.
Verross said the reforestation program was launched on a pilot basis and, if successful , probably will be expanded . The Company 's initial equipment is capable of clearing and replanting up to 6,000 acres per year, he added .
"We hope to make our service and equipment available as broadly as possible to landowners within our 50-county wood procurement area of coastal Georgia and adjoining portions of Carolina and Florida ," Verross said. "Naturally, we 'll give first priority to our own wood suppliers."
Ray Shirley, Georgia Forestry Com mission , said the Interstate program will help meet the major problems of privately -owned forest land, replanting of cutover woodlands and timber stand improvement.

Landowner William Belote, right, and forester Hal Chandler examine site in Jeff Davis County being prepared for reforestation.
"Interstate Paper Corp. is to be highly commended for its far-sighted program of assisting private owners to im prove the quality and yield of their forests," Shirley stated.
"This type of activity is absolutely essential if the forest resources of Georgia and the Southeast are to meet the in creasingly heavy demands which will be placed on them during the coming decades."
Verross emphasized that the reforestation work will be done for landowners
This bedding harrow is preparing cutover and cleared woodland for planting of pine seedlings.

This bulldozer is being used to clear cutover timber land in preparation for replanting in pine trees. Photos courtesy Interstate Paper Corp. 8

at Interstate's actual cost and will be supervised by Interstate foresters. Depending on site conditions, he estimated the cost would range between $20 and $80 per acre .
Forestry and pulp and paper authorities said they believe Interstate is the first company in the industry to provide a full range of reforestation services to private landowners exclusively.
Charles E. Williams, Interstate wood manager and veteran forestry engineer, is in charge of the reforestation program . Field work is supervised by Interstate's area wood superintendents, all trained foresters.

Forestry In Watershed Management

Dams regulate streamflow and trap

sediment giving prompt relief down

stream. However, unless the area is

stabilized, such as forested, their useful -

ness is short lived .

The sediment load of a stream is

greatly affected by forest cover. The

greatest reduction in sediment accumu-

lation is realized in the first few years

after a forest is established or improved.

The farmer is concerned with stream

flow, especially the peak discharges dur-

ing the summer. Where forests have

been established, the peak summer discharges have been markedly reduced

which, in turn, reduces the damage to

row crops in the area. This result alone

is cause for the farmer to practice good watershed management through the use

of trees.

On a watershed project, the Georgia Forestry Commission forester has the responsibility to provide landowners with technical forestry assistance, develop forestry work plans and to conduct critical area planting.

To a farmer, the forest is an important part of watershed management. The forest prevents water losses, causes snow to melt more slowly, prevents floods and increases the quality of water. The

A major objective of a watershed is

Experiments on watershed show us farmer concerned with watershed man-

to increase the water intake thus reduc-

that forest cover results in greater water- agement can, in many cases, control un-

ing flooding and erosion and increasing

shed protection without a measurable desirable circumstances through the use

land values.

decrease in water yield.

of sound forest management.

Man uses reservoirs to control floods

and for water storage for farm, munici-

pal, industrial and recreational uses.

However, he sometimes creates condi -

tions that cause these reservoirs to be

filled with sediment thus making his

own water problems.

The availability of water is largely due to land use. This makes a land

capability map the logical place for a

land manager to begin water control.

Through this map the land manager

will advocate using only that portion of

land suitable for a specific crop . Slope,

soil type, moisture and physical ob-

stacles are noted on the map. A farmer,

using such a map, could realize a maxi -

mum profit from his farm, and at the

same time practice water conservation.

Where the land is tillable and pro-

ductive, a farmer may use all of his farm

to grow row crops. The forester does

not discourage this practice as long as

the farmer realizes a profit. When the

land is in poor condition, or other fac-

tors render it unprofitable for row crops, the establishment of a forest is a sound

This 308 acre lake provides for flood control, a water supply for industry and recre-

policy.

ation for the surrounding area.

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Teacher Institutes Scheduled

Applications Available For Workshop

School teachers interested in learning more about conservation in Georgia and obtaining five quarter hours of college credit are urged to attend Georgia's fifth annual Natural Resource Institute.
There will be two three-week sessions held in 1970. The first institute is sched uled for June 15-July 3 at Shorter Col lege in Rome, and the second from June 22-July 10 at Valdosta State Col lege.
The Natural Resources Institute may be used to fulfill requirements of addi tional study for teacher certification or certificate renewal. However, the teacher should check with the local school board and/or Georgia State Department of Education.
Teaching will be held in indoor and outdoor classrooms. Area field trips will enable the students to see first-hand what the instructors discussed in class. The courses will be taught by specialists in their fields from the ranks of state, federal and industry personnel. Two widely known conservationists, Dr. Philip Greear, Shorter College, and Or. Clyde Connell, Valdosta State College, will coordinate the Institutes.
The purpose of the course is to give 10

teachers an adequate background in con servation . Much emphasis is placed on classroom presentation of the material, and the student-teachers are given a gold mine of information, materials and ideas to use with their own students. Past participants have found the course invaluable, not only in teaching natural resources but history, social studies, natural science, geography and English .
The cost of the Institute, including tuition, materials, room and board, is $150.00. In some cases, teachers may receive a grant-in-aid from the State Department of Education.
The tuition fee is provided by donors interested in conservation education . The list of donors, headed by the National Science Foundation, includes women's garden, and sportsmen's clubs, industry, professional societies and civic organizations.
Applications may be picked up at a Georgia Forestry Commission County Unit office, or by writing Frank E. Craven, chairman, Georgia Natural Re -
sources Education Council, P. 0 . Box
819, Macon, Ga. 31202 . The completed application is to be mailed to the school the student wishes to attend .

Applications are being taken for the ninth annual Natural Resources Conservation Workshop . The workshop will be held at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College near Tifton from June 7-12.
Workshop Director Sam G. Dunaway, Soil Conservation Service, Winder, states that the school is designed to accommodate 200 boys. A $30 scholarship is provided for each boy by sponsors in his community . This pays for the meals, lodging and prizes. Instructors and ad ministrative costs are furnished by the cooperating agencies, Dunaway added .
Dunaway pointed out that the boy attaining the highest scholastic standing will receive a $333 scholarship to the college of his choice in the Georgia Uni versity system . A determining examination is based on material presented during the week .
The workshop courses include Re search and Watersheds in Conservation, Gum Naval Stores, Timber Stand Im provement, Forest Fire Prevention and Forest Management. Others are Soil and Land Judging, Planning and Applying Conservation On Open Land , Wildlife Conservation and Recreation in Conservation .
The workshop director said that applications may be obtained from Georgia Forestry Commission county forest rangers and district offices, Soil Conservation district supervisors, Soil Conservation work unit conservationists and Georgia Game and Fish Commission rangers and district offices .
The workshop is co-sponsored by the Georgia Chapter, Soil Conservation Society of America, and the Georgia Asso ciation of Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisors. Dunaway is being assisted by A . P. Barnett, Agriculture Research Service, Watkinsville, and ~harles B. Place, Jr., Georgia Forestry Commission, Macon .

Ranger Of The Quarter

W. Franklin McArthur has headed

assistance is made available. There were

the Telfair County Forestry Unit for

437 landowners assisted on 52,899 for-



the past 13 years. Since 1964 he has di -

rected activities of the Jeff Davis-Telfair

est acres. The assistance included the preparation of forest management plans,

facilities. McArthur came with the Geor-

prescribed burning, weed tree control



gia Forestry Commission in August 1956

as a patrolman in Montgomery County .

and planting. Wesley Hartley is the area forester and Billy James is the project

Under his leadership, the Unit an-

forester.

nually posts an excellent fire suppres-

Reforestation was given an assist by

sion record. In 1968-69, personnel held

Unit personnel who assisted in the cone

178 wildfires to 3.4 acres per fire. In

collection at Arrowhead Seed Orchard

addition, 99 non forest fires were sup-

and in the local collection of tree seed.

pressed. There are 376,100 forest acres

On two occasions the Unit was a-

in the two county area.

warded for their excellent program. The

An assist has been given the Unit in

Unit received the Georgia Forestry Asso-

the suppression of non forest fires with

ciation's Outstanding General Perfor-

the formation of two Rural Fire De-

mance Award for the Fifth District in

fense Departments. They are located at

1965 and 1966.

Denton and Me Rae. McArthur promotes the services of

W. Franklin McArthur

The Unit personnel in Telfair County are Patrolmen Bud Gunn, Grady Hulett,

the Unit, including fire prevention and

and Telfair Countians, each county has

John Hulett and Jerry Roberson and

forest management, through special for-

the Notification of Intention To Burn

Towerwoman Mrs. Graham Maloy. The

estry newspaper editions, forestry pa-

Law . It was passed in 1968 and 1958, Jeff Davis personnel include Patrolmen

geants and parades.

respectively.

Virgil Tanner and Billy Taylor and

Through the support of Jeff Davis

Through the Unit forest management Towerwoman Mrs. Clara Dunn .

Forestry Faces And Places

was a member of the Forestry Club and



a student member of the Society of American Foresters. He is currently a

member of the SAF .

The forester served two years in the

U. S. Army, being honorably discharged

in 1963.

McClain and his wife, the former



Nancy Norton of Highlands, N. C.,

have a daughter, Deborah Lynn , 6. The

APPLING COUNTY

family is a member of the Baptist

Church .

David McClain

There are 245,500 forest acres in Appling County. This represents ap-

David McClain is the area forester for

proximately 75 percent of the land area.

the four county area of Floyd, Haralson,

More than 77 percent of the forest

Paulding and Polk Counties. He works

acreage is farmer owned . The forest

out of the Rome District Office.

acreage has a volume of 491 .6 million

.

He came with the Commission in July 1965 and was promoted to assist-

board feet of sawtimber and 2.4 million cords of pulpwood.

tant district forester in the Rome Dis-

Appling County was one of seven

working 712,482 faces.

trict in 1966.

counties to produce more than 100,000

There are 22 wood -using industries



The native of Rabun County is a

cords of pulpwood in 1968. Its produc-

in Appling County employing 710 per-

graduate of the University of Georgia

tion was 137,322 cords. In 1968, there sons with an annual payroll of approxi -

School of Forest Resources. There, he

were 147 gum producers in the County

mately $2.1 million.

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Retirements

Macon, Third Forestry District with headquarters in Americus and County Unit personnel recently attended a retirement supper in O'Donnell's honor. His fellow employees gave him several personal gifts plus a set of tools. His immediate supervisor, Floyd Cook, area forester from Columbus, had high praise for the cooperation he received from O' Donnell in forest fire prevention .

JAMES D. STRANGE

Reese Dunson
Reese Dunson has retired from the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service after 25 years of 4-H and conservation work.
He also worked eight years with the Farmers Home Administration and two years with the Soil Conservation Service.
Dunson served the past nine years as executive secretary of the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee.
JOHN O'DONNELL
John O'Donnell, a veteran of 19 years with the Georgia Forestry Commission, 17 as Ranger of Marion County, has retired as of January 31, 1970.

James D. Strange, associate area di rector. U. S. Forest Service Region Eight, has retired with over 38 years of service. Strange's Forest Service career began on the St. Joe National Forest in Idaho.
He had the responsibility for working with 13 southern State forestry organizations in servicing numerous Federal-State cooperative forestry programs. He had a variety of experience in national forest administration, cooperative work with private, State and Federal agencies as well as forestry assignments with other nations.
Strange, a native Georgian , was chairman of the Soil Conservation Society of America National Land Use Planning Committee from its inception in 1961 until his retirement.

C. H. Coulter

O'Donnell, during his career as county forest ranger was active in the Lions

EDWARD B. WILLIAMS Edward B. "Rip" Williams, forester

John M. Bethea

Club of Buena Vista and the Methodist Church . His county was selected as the

Division of Cooperative Fire Control, Southeastern Area, State and Private

C. H. "Hux" Coulter, after 41 years with the Florida Forest Service and the

.,.

third place winner in 1954 by the

Forestry, has retired after 37 years of

Florida Division of Forestry, has retired.

Georgia Forestry Association in recog-

service.

He had served the past 24 years as

nition of his efforts in forest fire pre-

Williams began his service at the

Florida's State Forester.

vention.

Northeastern Experiment Station in

He began his career with the Florida

The retiring ranger is a graduate of

Amherst, Mass. His career covered as- Forest Service as a planting technician .

the Lake City Forest Ranger School in

signments in both the National Forest

He advanced through the ranks as forest

Florida and served with the U. S.

System and State and Private Forestry

assistant, district forester and assistant

Marines from 1930-39.

in the Northeastern, Lakes, Rocky

State Forester.

O'Donnell plans to retire to his farm

Mountain and Southern States.

Governor Claud Kirk, in an official

in Marion County and produce Black

cabinet resolution, called the native

Angus cattle.

JOHN B. SPRING

Canadian "the ind ividual most responsi-

Ray Shirley, director, Georgia Fores-

John B. Spring, chief, Fire Control, ble for the design and achievement of

try Commission , Macon, stated that U. S. Forest Service Region Eight, has Reforestation in Florida".

men of O'Donnell's character built the retired after 39 years of service. Spring

John M. Bethea succeeds Coulter as

Commission into the highly regarded began his career as a Summer employee director of the Florida Division of For-

organization it is now recognized as be- on the Rogue River National Forest in estry, announced Doyle E. Conner,

ing by the U. S. Forest Service. The Oregon .

Florida Commissioner of Agriculture.

Commission Director wished O'Donnell

He has served on the Cherokee, Ala-

Bethea has served as associate State

the best of luck with his farming enter- bama, Kisatchie and Chattahoochee Na- forester for seven years. He began his

prise.

tional Forests and in the Atlanta Region- service with the agency as an extension

Personnel from the State Office in al Office in both Fire Control and Lands. ranger in 1941.

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Brender Receives Technical Award

Ernst V . Brender, one of America's

foremost silviculturists, was presented

the Technical Award for 1969 by the

Southeastern Section , Society of Ameri -

can Foresters at the annual meeting in

Montgomery, Ala .

The meeting theme was "Looking

Forward to Forest Management in the

Seventies" .

Brender , project leader, U.S. Forest

Service, Macon, was cited for his out-

standing work on the Hitchiti Experi -

mental Forest, and his contributions to

a better understanding of the silvics and

management of Piedmont loblolly pine

during the past 22 years . The Hitchiti

Experimental Forest is located north of

Macon in Jones County .

Annually, students from the Univer-

sities of Georgia, Michigan, Syracuse

and Yale and the Lake City Ranger

School visit the Forest to study the

various silvicultural practices used in

managing loblolly pine in the Piedmont.

Most of Brender's work has been in

Georgia . More than 40 technical papers on the culture and growth of loblolly pine have resulted from this work.

Ernst Brender, project leader, U.S. Forest Service, receives the Technical Award from Tom Croker, chairman, Awards Committee, Brewton, Ala.

In 1969, Brender organized a sub-

tion.

forestry in the Southeast"

chapter of the SAF in Middle Georgia

The plaque, presented to Brender,

Tom Croker, chairman, Awards Com -

'

which has received recognition and en-

reads "in recognition of his contribu - mittee, Brewton, Ala ., made the presen-

dorsement from the national organ iza-

tions to the knowledge and practice of tation .

Callaway Is SCL Forestry Winner

A youthful interest in Forestry has

and business leaders at a banquet. The

developed a 19-year old FFA member,

young conservationists toured the

Mark R. Callaway of Ringgold, into a

Mayor's office, A . S. Heinz Co ., U. S.

State winner in the Seaboard Coast

Steel, and Coppers Company.

Line Forestry competition . His interest

Working with Mark were his Ag

in Forestry began at an early age as the

Teacher, Sam J. Hill, County Agent

result of a conservation minded father

Tommy Kendrick and Catoosa Forest

who was one of the first in the county

Ranger James Scott.

to plant seedlings.

The Georgia runnerups in the Sea-

Judging Mark's project was Alan

board competition were Paul Layman,

Fowler, forester, Seaboard Coast Line.

Elko; Larry Champion, Shady Dale, and

The young conservationist planted

Steve Barber, Donalsonville.

25,000 seedlings, controlled scrub hard-

Other honors garnered by Mark are

woods on 70 acres, constructed six

placing first at the Youth Conservation

miles of firebreaks, fenced 430 acres and

Workshop held at ABAC College and

selectively cut 12 acres. Mark harvested

Mark R. Callaway, 19-year old FFA State 4H winner in the Conservation of

20,000 bd . ft. of sawtimber and 80

member from Ringgold has been named Natural Resources.

fence posts.

State winner in the Seaboard Coast Line

Presently, he is attending Dalton

As a result of being the State winner,

Railroad Company 's Forestry project Junior College, but his future plans

Mark joined other State Forestry win - competition. James Scott, forest ranger, have not been set. Mark is the son of

ners for a trip to Pittsburgh where the

assisted young Callaway by advising him Mr. and Mrs. Harry D. Callaway of

winners were recognized by area, civic

on seedling care and planting.

Ringgold .

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LETTERS

Logging The

Fl RE PREVENTION
This will acknowledge receipt of your public service spots for "Forest Fire Prevention" . This has long been a favorite campaign with us and we are happy to continue assisting for another year.
J. S. Robinson Program Director WKLS Broadcasting
We appreciate the time and energy spent by all concerned for Fcrest Fire Prevention.
We are only too glad to air these spots as a public service.
Thank you for the privilege of carrying these worthy messages to our listening audience.
Harry Reynolds Program Director WEAS
Having spent so much time grumbling about county taxes, I feel that it is only fair to applaud recent benefits received . Mr. Wil liams, the children and I thank the Sumter County Forestry personnel who were responsible for putting out a large woods and pasture fire which threatened our livestock , hay and a shed. Our special thanks go to Mr. Andy Mcllwraith who first noticed the fire from his patrol plane.
Mrs. Jesse Willi ams
CONSERVATION
On behalf of the Warner Rob i ns Woman's Club thank you for sending Mr. Charles Place as our speaker on Sept. 11 .
He gave such an interesting talk and everyone was delighted and enthused. You don't know how gratifying it was to me.
We hope to plan a field trip to the Forestry Commission at an early date.
Thank you again for all you have done to help me in my job as Conservation Chairman.
Pauline Mullenix
EXHIBITS
All of us at Lenox Square want to thank you most sincerely for making STAY AND SEE GEORGIA week such a fabulous success!
We know you and your group put in much hard work , tireless effort and long hours to make your exhibit such an interesting and im pressive one and we are sure that the more than 300,000 people who visited Lenox Square and your show during the week, have
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been awakened to the beautiful forests of our State and the amazing job that your Comm ission does.
Chess Lagomarsino Vice President Lenox Square Assoc .

Thank you so much for the picture of Mr. Deaton and "Mr. Tree" . We thought yours was one of the cutest exhibits at STAY AND SEE GEORGIA Week and thank you very much for cooperating and putting on such a good ex hibit.
We will be glad to have the picture for purposes of promoting the STAY AND SEE Week next year.
Martha Thomas Travel Council Georgia Chamber of Commerce
TOURS

The State 's Christmas tree was a 31 year old, 58 foot white pine. The tree, 18 inches across the stump, branched out
to a diameter of 35 feet. Erected on the
grounds of the Governor's Mansion in Atlanta, the tree was grown in Union County on the Chattahoochee National Forest about 15 miles north of Dahlonega.

The South Atlantic Tour for the Second World Consultation on F.T.B . was a success! Many thanks for the splendid support and assistance of Mr. James Wynens and Mr. Terrell Brooks. This was a good start, because, as expected this was the first trip to this country for some of the participants and Macon, Georgia was their first stop.

Please express our thanks to Mr. Craven for the introductory remarks.

This was a most inquisitive and interesting group and we had many questions and heard more about Georgia for the remainder of the week.

Leroy Jones, Leader South Atlantic Tour Second World Consultation on Forest Tree Breeding

We were all tremendously impressed by the scale and quality of the work which you are doing on tree breeding in the Georgia Forestry Commission. Both the seed orchards and progeny trials were of great interest, as were the up-to-date items of machinery in use, such as the tree shaker, seed collecting mobile platform and insecticide sprayers. Also the methods of mass production for seed extraction and storage which you showed us the second day.
Many thanks for everything which you and your colleagues did to make the Study Tour at Macon the great success it was.
Dick Willan (F .A .O ., Rome)

Interstate Paper Corp., Riceboro, has appointed Max C. Webb wood superintendent for the eastern area which comprises Georgia and South Carolina counties near the Savannah River.
MEETING ...The 19th annual L.S.U. Forestry Symposium will be held at Louisiana State University April 8-9, 1970, announces Thomas Hansbrough, general chairman . The subject will be "Silviculture and Management of Southern Hard woods".

Foresters ...

STEWARDSHIP ...May 3-10 has been designated Soil Stewardship Week in Georgia. It is being jointly sponsored by the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee, Jim L. Gillis, Jr., chairman ; and the State Association of District Supervisors, Frank 0. Crawford , presi dent.

BOARD PLANT ...The Georgia Pacific Corp. particle board plant in Vienna has started operations, states C.E. Brown , plant manager. The plant will employ appro ximately 125 people, including 100 technicians, and will have an esti mated production of over six million square feet of particle board a month . Full production is expected by June.

NATIONAL FORESTS ... The administrative name of the national forests in Georgia has been changed to the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests, according to Darold D. Westerberg, forest supervisor .

A beautification project at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam had its beginning at the ITT Rayonier, Inc. tree seedling nursery at Glennville. Harold J. Belcher, left, chief forester, Southeast Timber Division; Ray Shirley, director, Georgia Forestry Commission; and G. W. Thompson, nurseryman; observe the bundling of the beautification package. The slash pine trees were shipped along with fir, cedar and hemlock from McChord Air Force Base, Washington State, in December. The reql!est for the trees came from David L. Peterson, AK1, FPO, San Francisco to the office of ITT Rayonier in Hoquaim, Washington.

SCHOLARSHIP ...The Associated Cooperage Industries of America, Inc. will once again award a four-year $2,000 forestry scholarship . The 1970 scholarship will be awarded on or about July 1. Application blanks may be obtained from the Association office at 818 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. 63101 .

Bl G TR EES.. .Statewide, their are 60 State trees listed in the Georgia Forestry Commission's State and National Tree Champion Directory. Eleven of these are national champions. They are the Buckeye, Union Co.; Cherry Bark Oak, Dougherty Co .; Oglethorpe Oak, Oglethorpe Co .; Overcup Oak, Putnam Co. ; Pondcypress, Baker Co.; and Post Oak , Hart Co. Completing the list are the Shagbark Hickory, Coweta Co. ; Table Mountain Pine, Lumpkin Co .; Water Oak , Pulaski Co .; Winged Elm , Fulton Co .; and Yellow Magnolia, Putnam Co.
DATES...A TFA, April 15, Valdosta ... Ware Co. Pine Tree Festival , May 5-6, Waycross... Southern Forestry Conference , May 7-8, Mobile, Ala ...Southern Extension Forestry, May 11 -13, Tellico Plains, Tenn ...Seaboard Coast Line Rail road Field Day, May 13-14, Manchester...Southern Fire and I&E Chiefs, May 19-20, Macon ...Georgia Chapter, SCSA, June 5-6, Jekyll lsland ...GFA, June 7-9, Jekyll Island.

lngvar Ekholm, center, agricultural attache, Swedish Embassy, Washington , D.C., recently visited State, federal and private forestry officials at the Georgia Fores tr y Cen ter, Macon. The officials include LeRoy Jones, supervisory forester, Sou theastern Area, U.S. Forest Service, Atlanta; Ed Knapp, Bibb County legislator; Ray Shirley, director, Georgia Forestry Commission; and Frank Craven, Commission Forest Education chief, all of Macon.
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Georgia FORESTRY
March, 1970
It's Enough To Make You Sick
Litter cleanup costs U . S. taxpayers an estimated $500-million annually. Ur ban communities spend nearly $300 million of that amount for street clean ing alone. Another $1 DO-million goes for litter removal from highways while addi tiona! mill ions are spent removing litter from the forests, parks, beaches, waterways and other public areas.
We urge you to join with other concerned citizens and stop this ugliness which is spreading across this beautiful land of ours.
Remember! Every litter bit hurts!
Isn 't It Enough To Make You Stop

SECOND-CLASS POSTAG E PAID AT DRY BRANCH, GA.