Georgia forestry, Vol. 24, no. 1 (Mar. 1971)

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Georgia Forestry

Mar. 1971

No.1

Vol. 24

Published Quarterly by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION
Box 819 Macon, Georgia 31202

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

OFFICIALS A. Ray Shirley Director Julian D. Reeves- Deputy Director

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

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

Vidalia
Lavonia Homer Eastman Cogdell

STAFF Frank E. Craven - Editor Thomas R. Fontaine, Jr.-Assoc. Ed. Thomas B. Hall -Artist
DISTRICT OFFICES GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION
STATESBORO DISTRICT Route 2, Statesboro 30458
CAMILLA DISTRICT P. 0. Box 429, Camilla 31730
AMERICUS DISTRICT P. 0. Box 1369, Americus 31709
NEWNAN DISTRICT P. 0. Box 1080, Newnan 30263
McRAE DISTRICT P. 0. Box 96, McRae 31055
Ml LLEDGEVI LLE DISTRICT P. 0. Box 881, Milledgeville 31061
ROME DISTRICT P. 0. Box Z, Mount Berry 30149
WAYCROSS DISTRICT P. 0. Box 1160, Waycross 31501
GAINESVILLE DISTRICT P. 0. Box 1076, Gainesville 30501
WASHINGTON DISTRICT Route 2, Box 266, Washington 30673

Second class postage paid at Dry Branch, Georgia.

CONTENTS
Senator Richard B. Russell Succumbs.........................................................................3 Volume Up- Acreage Down .......................................................................................!4 Commission Highlights 1970
Dixon Reelected Board Chairman ..........................................................................5 Teacher Institutes Scheduled
Conservationist is 1970 WOTY ..............................................................................fi Pollution Advisory Available
"Fire Weather" Text Published 300 Millionth Seedling Planted...............................................................................7 Mock Fire Simulates Real Thing..............................................................................8-9 9,978 Forest Fires Suppressed ....................................................................................9 Forestry Faces and Places....................................................................................10-11 Workshop Cultivates Conservationists.......................................................................12 The Paper Oven .........................................................................................................13 Logging The Foresters..........................................................................................14-15
Cruising The NeltYs
We're No Threat To Forests
Newspapers have done such a good job of alerting the public to the problems of pollution and misuse of natural resources that they have found them under the scrutiny of some conservationists.
Some are concerned by the idea that vast forests are wiped out to produce the nearly 10 million tons of newsprint this country consumes each year.
The Newsprint Information Council, composed of a group of Canadian newsprint mills, has checked into the situation. Canada supplies about two-thirds of all newsprint used in the United States.
The committee says it takes about 17 trees to make one ton of newsprint, but that the annual harvest, plus all losses to fire, insects and disease is less than half the annual forest growth.
"Like wheat," says the committee, "trees for newsprint are a renewable crop, although with a much longer growth cycle."
"Cutting down 17 trees merely makes room for 17 other trees to grow. Frequently they are better, straighter, fatter trees, more economically harvested."
It is good to know that we are in no danger of printing ourselves out of trees.
(From the Macon Telegraph)
Prevent Those Fires
Each year, according to National Safety Council statistics, farm fires result in the loss of 500 lives and $200 million in property damage.
The Council particularly stresses prevention of farm fires since fire damage to farms and rural property is three to six times greater than in the average city fire.
Jack Burke, a program specialist in the Council's Farm Department, explains that it takes longer for fire fighters to get to the scene than it does in the average city.
A common problem on farms, according to the safety specialist, is clutter. "Stuff piles up or is strewn about, offering an open invitation to fires -not to mention falls, cuts, bruises, shocks, splinters, and poisonings," Burke says. Preventive measures, Burke says, are relatively simple if done routinely: --Keep buildings free of unneeded combustible material and accumulations of chaff, straw and dust. --Rid the farmstead of dry weeds, brush and old lumber. --Keep paint rags in metal containers. --Store farm fuels 40 or more feet from buildings. --Keep small quantities of fuels in sturdy, well-marked metal containers. --Burn rubbish at a safe distance from buildings and other combustibles, and only when the wind is calm. --Check electrical systems and make necessary repairs. --Watch smoking in buildings. --Check daily the temperature of newly stored hay. --Place portable heaters away from anything that could catch fire. --Place fire extinguishers in buildings, and on tractors, self-propelled harvesting machinery and trucks.
(From the Jeff Davis County Ledger)

Senator Richard B. Russell Succumbs

Senator Richard B. Russell, 73, Geor gia's senior Senator, is dead.
A man, dedicated to his heritage, for five decades of public service had nurtured and seen mature forestry and related legislation in his own State and across this vast land of ours.
The Senator first began in his own backyard as a member of the Georgia legislature. He supported legislation which established the State Board of Forestry in 1925. As governor of Georgia in 1931, Russell's efforts secured a $40,000 grant from the General Assembly, to match a $50,000 donation by the Chemical Foundation, Inc., to start the Herty Laboratory at Savannah.
The year 1933 saw the Barrow Countian take his seat in the United States Senate. There, he has supported and actively and effectively worked for a greener America .
During this 38 year period, he has supported and been a part of every piece of legislation dealing with all phases of conservation in the development of our natural resources.
In the field of forest conservation, Senator Russell lent himself unselfishly to both State and private interest. Forest Protection, a program that is vital to us all, received his support under the ClarkMcNary Act. At the time he came on the Washington scene, our CM2 appropriations totaled a mere 1.1 million dollars with 16.4 million dollars appropriated for 1970.

The Farm Forestry Program, that makes possible federal and State assistance in forest management on private lands, came into being with the backing of Senator Russell. The Cooperative Forest Management funds amount to more than 4.7 million dollars.
The 1956 Soil Bank Program permitted reforestation programs across our

nation to be accelerated. Senator Russell

vigorously supported this program, and

the subsequent financing of its annual

operation which saw 2,153,843 acres

planted nationally. It also provided for

the expansion of old, and the construc-

tion of new tree seedling nurseries.

His interest in Forest Research , as

governor of Georgia, continued in the

United States Senate. Appropriations in

this field have grown from 1.6 million

dollars in 1933 to the present 41.2 mil-

lion dollars. This program is evident

throughout every area of our country .

There is the Forest Products Laboratory

at Madison , Wise ., and forest fire labora-

tories at Macon , Ga ., Riverside, Calif.

and Missoula, Mont. The development

of the research tri-angle at Raleigh-Dur-

ham, N. C. and the Forestry Science

Laboratory at the University of Georgia,

Athens, are other examples.

The late Senator was a ch ief support-

er of forest genetics, insect and disease

control, the small watershed program

and utilization. An image, that has been taken to by

young and old alike, Smokey Bear, re-

ceived this leader's attention. He co-

sponsored the Smokey Bear Act of 1952

that led to "Smokey" becoming a sym-

bol of forest conservation protection

and needs.

He not only was a champion for

State and private programs, but to all

programs of the U. S. Forest Service.

Every piece of legislation of vital inter-

est to national forest development, pre-

servation and protection was given his

support.

Senator Russell, at the time of his

death, was chairman of the Senate Ap-

propriations Committee and Senate Pro-

tempore. He was looked upon as the

most important and influential member

of the U. S. Senate. An attribute to any

public servant, he had the respect of all

his colleagues regardless of party affilia -

tion.

Senator Russell, the son of Richard

B. and Ina Dillard Russell, was one of

15 children. He was part of a family

that has made outstanding contributions

to the nation and to the world in almost

every major field . This includes religion ,

medicine, law, education , agriculture,

military and government. The Russell

family presents a shining example of

those families who literally grew up

with and made this country of ours

great.

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Georgia Forest Survey

S.E. Unit
At Mid-Point
The forest survey of Georgia's 37.7 million acres is approximately one-third complete, according to the mid-February report of Thomas R. Bell amy, field supervisor for the survey.
Bellamy said that the southeastern section of the coastal plain, Unit One, is 47 percent complete. The survey is scheduled over a three year period . Bellamy stated that to complete the statewide survey will require visiting and tabulating conditions at 6,796 separate forest plots.
The survey team consists of five twoman units. The Georgia Forestry Commission is providing one man each on two of the units.
The survey field office is located at Jesup . The State headquarters for the survey field work is the Georgia Forest Research Council at the Georgia Forestry Center near Macon.

Com ple te Surv e y In Prog re ss

Volume Up Acreage Down

The fourth survey of Georgia 's timber resource , started in June 1970, is about 32 percent completed_ New data have been released for Southwest Georgia, one of five Forest Survey Units, in a report, "Forest Statistics for Southwest Georgia, 1971 " .
Herbert A. Knight, associate resource analyst, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Asheville , N. C. , states that the survey shows more timber volume but less commercial forest land .
The findings show that area of commercial forest land in the 22-county area has declined by 180,000 acres, or almost six percent, since 1960. Over this same period, volume of growingstock timber increased by 581 million
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cubic feet, or almost 27 percent, reversing a downward trend in volume between 1951 and 1960. Softwoods have accounted for 85 percent of this net increase in volume, with sl ash pine and loblolly pine making the greatest gains of all species.
In 1970, net growth of growing stock totaled 170 million cubic feet and ex ceeded removals by an estimated 52 million cubic feet, or 44 percent. Mortality caused by suppression , fire, weather, insects, disease, and other agents totaled almost 20 million cubic feet and reduced gross growth by 10 percent.
Area of commercial forest land in Southwest Georgia now totals about 2.9 million acres, or 51 percent of total

land area. The survey findings indicate that three out of every five of these acres have either been harvested, regenerated, treated, or disturbed since 1960 . Approximately 790,000 acres were either harvested or thinned, and an estimated 250,000 acres were artificially reforested .
Although average stand density has increased both in terms of number of trees per acre and basal area per acre, one out of every three acres of com mercial forest land is still either non stocked or poorly stocked.
Area of commercial forest land own ed by farmers has declined by one-third. Land clearing accounted for part of this decrease ; however, most of the change is attributed to a shift in ownership from the farmer to the miscellaneous private class. Forest industry has in creased its commercial forest holdings from 200,000 to 251 ,000 acres. In addi tion, forest industry has about 118,000 acres under long-term lease. Only one percent of the commercial forest land in Southwest Gerogia is publicly owned .
The Georgia Forestry Commission and forest industry are assisting the Southeastern Station in the survey.

Commission Highlights 1970

Dixon Reelected
Board Chairman

An administrative program keyed to forest resource needs; 15 years of tree improvement work marked; forestry makes inroads in area development ; and reduction in forest fire occurrence noted .
These highlights are reflected in the 1970 annual report of the Georgia Forestry Commission , Ray Shirley, director .
The administrative program was initiated in each county to answer service requests by the timberland owners. The program is geared to provide maximum use of technical foresters in providing forest management assistance, and increase the effective utilization of forest protection resources.
The Forestry Commission marked fifteen years of tree improvement work with the certification of 298.8 acres of seed orchards and its tree seed processing facilities by the Georgia Crop Improvement Association. This provided for the first production, anywhere, of improved "super" stock from certified seed. The total program was further enhanced with the transfer of the Baldwin State Forest from the State Board of Health to the Forestry Commission. Racial variation studies were implemented, and a seedling seed orchard established.
For the first time, the forester's technical knowledge and experience was utilized in area development . The Slash Pine Planning and Development Commission in Waycross and the Lake Lanier Island Development Authority each

have a forester assigned to their staffs. Technical assistance to urbanites continued through the Metro Forestry program . Statewide, 16,839 woodland own ers were provided assistance on 986,951 forest acres.
For the second consecutive year, reductions were achieved in forest fire occurrence, two percent, and forest acreage burned, five percent. Only 39,499 forest acres were burned of the 24,066,400 forest acres protected .
The certification of 298.8 acres of seed orchards marked 15 years of Tree Improvement work by the Georgia Forestry Commission.

Mayor Hugh M. Di xon of Vidalia has been reelected chairman of the Georgia Forestry Commission Board of Commissioners, announced Ray Shirley, Commission director. Dixon's reelection, at the Board 's January meeting in Atlanta, marks the third time he has chaired this body.
Dixon, a member of the Board since February 1966, is a lumberman and timberland owner. The president of the Hugh Dixon Lumber Company is a di rector of the Georgia Forestry Association and a member of the Southern Pine Association .
The Board chairman is serving as president of the First District Georgia Municipal Association, and is a member of the State Chamber of Commerce and the Vidalia Chamber of Commerce.
Dixon heads a five man Board that supervises the Forestry Commission 's programs. Shirley, in making the an nouncement, stated that the five member Board has given unselfishly of its time and counsel in all areas of Forestry Commission service.
Other members of the Board are W. George Beasley, Lavonia; M. E. Garrison, Homer; L. H. Morgan, Fitzgerald ; and Alexander Sessoms, Cogdell.
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Teacher Institutes Scheduled

School teachers interested in learning more about conservation in Georgia and obtaining five quarter hours of college credit are urged to attend Georgia's sixth annual Natural Resource Institute.
There will be two three,week sessions held in 1971. The first institute is scheduled for June 14 - July 2 at Shorter College in Rome, and the second from June 21 - July 9 at Valdosta State

College. The Natural Resources Institute may
be used to fulfill requirements of additional study for teacher certification or certificate renewal .
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 Dr. r Clyde Connell, Valdosta State College, will coordinate the institutes.
The purpose of the course is to give teachers an adequate background in conservation . Much emphasis is placed on classroom presentation of the materi al. 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 in valuable, not only in teaching natural resources, but history, social studies, natural science, geography and English.
The cost of the institute is $160. The fee includes tuition, materials, room and board. 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 obtained from Shorter and Valdosta State Colleges, Georgia Forestry Commission County Forestry Units, or by writing Frank E. Craven, chairman, Georgia Natural Resources Education Council, P. 0. Box 819, Macon, Ga. 31202. The completed application is to be mailed to the college the student wishes to attend.

Mrs. Yarn
Conservationist Is 1970
WOTY
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Mrs. Jane Hurt Yarn is Atlanta's Woman of the Year for 1970.
The conservationist, on accepting the award sponsored by Lenox Square, Inc ., challenged Georgians to "assume their share of stewardship" for the environment .
Last year, she developed a section of the Earth Day program at Georgia State University, initiated an environmental studies program at Lovett School, started an environmental quality camp for Girl Scout leaders and raised funds for Georgia teachers to attend natural resources institutes.
In 1969, she was instrumental in preserving Egg Island which was purchased as conservation property.
Mrs. Yarn is the wife of Dr. Charl.es Yarn, an Atlanta plastic surgeon. They have three children.

Mrs. Jane H. Yarn

Pollution Advisory Available ''Fire

Forestry interests, throughout Georgia, are the recipients of a new fire weather service, according to a joint announcement of Paul H. Hagerty, supervisor, Forestry Meteorologist, National Weather Service, and Ray Shirley, director, Georgia Forestry Commission, both of Macon .
Hagerty said the new service is in the form of an Air Pollution Potential Advisory . Hagerty emphasized that the advisory, in no way, tells the landowner to burn or not to burn. Rather, it is a matter of information for the landowner to use, along with local existing conditions, in determining whether he will burn or not, Hagerty pointed out.

Shirley said the purpose of the ad visory is to enable those landowners, who are engaged in prescribed and con trol burning of their woodlands, to exercise judgment as to the impact of their activities on the atmosphere in relation to the air pollution problem.
An open letter, regarding the Air Pollution Potential Advisory, has been sent to all forestry interests in Georgia. The Forestry Commission will provide them this service at their request.
Shirley cited the addition of the advisory service as giving Georgia land owners the most complete fire weather data available.

300 Millionth

Seedling Planted

The Savannah Woodlands Division of Union Camp Corporation has planted the Company's 300 millionth pine seed ling as part of a ceremony celebrating the 103rd anniversary of the birth of Dr. Charles H. Herty.
The seedling was put into the ground December 4, 1970 at the Charles H. Herty Elementary School.
Dr. Herty, a native Georgian and distinguished scientist, is credited with pioneering the southern paper industry. He did this through his research with pulp from the Southern slash pine trees.
Union Camp's 300 millionth seedling was grown at the Company's nursery at Bellville, Ga., a facility which has been in operation since 1958. Annually, over 25 million seedlings are raised at this nursery.
Union Camp, whose huge Savannah Plant began operations in 1936, started planting seedlings in 1938 with 300,000 going into the ground that year. In 1960 the 100 millionth tree was planted and five years later the 200 millionth was set out .

John Hamner, regeneration supervisor, Union Camp Corporation, right, and AI Davenport, conservation forester, plant the company's 300 millionth pine seedling. Photo by Union Camp Corp.

Weather''
Text
Published
" Fire Weather", a guide for the appli cation of weather information to forest fire control, is a storm cloud out of the blue, according to Ray Shirley, director, Georgia Forestry Commission, Macon.
Shirley cited the concise and well illustrated, educational text as an added tool in the hands of forest fire preven tion and suppression personnel everywhere. In this endeavor, where large amounts of funds are expended and major responsibility rests, such a publi cation has been desirous and a long time in the making.
Since weather is the most single greatest factor in determining fire suppression action, the text's completeness makes for national and international use; its simplicity marks the publication for the classroom for both instructor and student; and its composition is designed for specific application, Shirley pointed out.
Though we think of fire prevention and suppression activities on a seasonal basis, weather is the seasons. Weather has its own character and dimensions, and where fire is present, fire assumes these ingredients to create dimensions and character of its own .
Shirley added that this handbook, jointly pr~pared by the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture and the Weather Bureau, Environmental Science Services Administration, and U. S. Department of Commerce, could be an invaluable crutch in our fire prevention and suppression campaigns against fire's sister companion, weather.
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Records Officer John Hammond kept personnel on the move.

The problem "Fire" originated from the headquarters' trailer.

Mock Fire
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Plans Boss George Collier and Intelligence Officer Ronald Kersey review fire intelligence data.
Service Boss George Shingler mounts anemometer which provides wind data that is crucial to fire suppression.
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Communications Officer Henry Cannon keeps lines open between headquarters and the fire line.
Chief Umpire Jim Turner wirily introduces another obstacle to the "fire" problem.

A mock fire destroyed between four and five thousand acres of valuable for ests, and endangered another 40-50,000 acres during a recent fire fighting exercise conducted by the Georgia Forestry Commission.
Commission Director Ray Shirley said the exercise was held to train State fire control command teams in project fire organization. He pointed out that the primary purpose of the drills was to combine personnel into an efficient team to battle forest fires. In addition, it provided training in the management of personnel and equipment on large fires under critical fire weather conditions, Shirley added.
The mock fire "roared" through the Hitchiti Experimental Forest and the Piedmont Wildlife Refuge near Monti cello. The three day drill, utilizing teams, involved 33 personnel from the Commission's ten districts and headquarters in Macon .
The Commission's headquarters trail er was dispatched from the State headquarters. Technicians installed radio and field telephone systems to handle com-

Fire Boss Cash Harper, Ranger Billy Miles and Problem Coordinator Curtis Barnes discuss fire progress and needed action.

ulates Real Thing

munications. Portable electric systems went into operation.
Personnel carried out their suppression actions utilizing telephone and radio communications in moving ground and air personnel and equipment from one location to another. The controller increased or lessened the fire's movement in accordance with fuel and weath er conditions .
Referees threw in obstacles to make the exercise more realistic . Men were "injured" in the battle against the "flames" and equipment "breakdowns" plagued the fire bosses.
Following each day's problem, a critique was made. Through the problem analysis, errors are corrected and improved techniques are formulated.
James C. Turner, Jr ., chief, Commission Forest Protection Division, was chief umpire for the fire problem. Curtis S. Barnes, associate chief, Forest Protection Division, coordinated plans for the "dry run" exercise .
Shirley termed the simulated operation "very successfu I" and excellent training for all personnel concerned .

Motor Equipment Officer Zack Seymour and Supply Officer William Partridge saw that "fire" fighting personnel were properly equipped.

The 1970 fire season saw 11 ,658

forest fires burn 55,668 acres. Approxi-

mately 45 percent of the fires and acre-

age burned occurred in a two month

period, according to the calendar year

summary.

James C. Turner, Jr., chief, Commis-

sion Forest Protection Division, stated

that an unusually dry February, in

north and central Georgia , resulted in

the occurrence of 2,541 forest fires .

This is more than twice the occurrence

of February 1969. Acres burned during

the period were 16,598 or about four

times that of the same month in 1969.

Unusually high fire occurrence and

dryness was experienced the last week of

November and the first two weeks of

December. A total of 649 fires occurred

in November 1970, over 200 more than

the same month in 1969. December

occurrence was 2,051 fires, over 1,000

more than the 950 fires suppressed the

previous December.

During the five day period, December

5-10, 1,244 forest fires burned 4,194

acres. Approximately 44 percent of the

fires and 59 percent of acreage burned

occurred in South Georgia.

In addition to forest fires, Commis-

sion personnel suppressed 2,107 non

forest fires.

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Forestry Faces-

~A symposium, on "The Role of Trees in the South's Urban Environment", attracted 200 conservationists from across the nation. Representing the four organizations that co-sponsored the symposium are, 1-r, Ray Shirley, director, Georgia Forestry Commission, Macon; Ted Mahler, director, University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education, Athens; Frank Bailey, associate area director, U. S. Forest Service, Atlanta; and Dean A.M. Herrick: University of Georgia School of Forest Resources. For copies of the proceedings, contact Dr. Leonard Hampton, Unviersity of Georgia Center for Continuing Education . The four day symposium was held in Athens.

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Baldwin County matches the State's figure in percentage of land area in for est acreage. There are 117,700 forest acres in Baldwin County which represents 69 percent of the land area. .. More than 62 percent of the forest 10

acreage is farmer-owned. Industry own ed forest acreage exceeds 16 percent. The forest acreage has a growing volume of 225.1 million board feet of sawtimber and 1.3 million cords of pulpwood.
In 1969, there were 43,633 cords of round pulpwood produced. The highest productive year was 1965 when 55,1 04 cords were harvested . Since 1946, production has totaled 567,888 cords of round pulpwood.
There are 10 wood-using industries in the county employing approximately 220 people with a payroll of about $911,488. The products of these industries include pulpwood, green, dressed and air dried lumber, chips, crates, pallets, boxes and dimension stock.

... Thomas C. Croker, Jr ., top, Brewton, Ala., and Clarence E. Miller, Perry, Fla ., were recipients of the 1970 Technical Awards presented at the joint meeting of the Southeastern Sections, Society of American Foresters and Forest Products Research Society . Croker, research forester, U. S. Forest Service, received the award for his research on the growing and management of longleaf pine. The award was presented by Ben C. Meadows, vice president, SAF, Atlanta. Miller, manager, Woodland Sales, Buckeye Cellulose Corp. was selected for outstand ing service to the FPRS in the holding of local, State and national committee assignments as well as serving as past Section chairman . The award was presented by W. A. Gullicksen, president, FPRS, Chicago, Ill .

Ancl Places

lllil' Tilden Price, president, Ingleside Ki-

wanis Club , received, on behalf of the Woodland Owner Alex Shellnut And Haralson -Polk Forest Ranger Spencer McGraw

Club, a Commendation from the Georgia Forestry Commission. The award was presented by Smokey Bear during the Club's Farm -City Week program . The award was given for the Club's work with youth and its role in conserving the area's natural resources.
~ For the 22nd consecutive year, Geor-

., Jack and Alex Shellnut have been selected Farm Family of the Year for 1970 in Haralson County. The Shellnut Farm is about 2,000 acres in size with approximately 1,700 acres in woodland. They reclaimed about 200 acres of nonproductive land by controlling weed trees and planting with pine trees. They have 100 acres of planted pines. The Shell nuts market 800-1,000 cords of wood per year. The tree and cattle farmers were selected by the Haralson County Technical Action Panel. Tommy Mauldin, Rome District forester, and Spencer McGraw, ranger, Haralson-Polk Forestry Unit, both of the Georgia Forestry Commission, served on the panel along with

gia led the South in value of pulpwood representatives from the SCS and ASCS offices and the county agent.

harvested, $160.7 million. Purchases of

pulpwood harvested in the South and

delivered to 121 pulp and paper mills in

1969 totaled $899,118,000. This is.ap-

proximately 10 percent higher than

1968. The figures were released by the

Southern Forest Institute.

~ Ernst V. Brender, timber manage-

ment researcher, Southeastern Forest

Experiment Station, Macon, was named

"Forest Conservationist of the Year"

by the Georgia Sportsmen's Federation

at its eleventh annual Governor's A-

wards Banquet in Thomasville.

Headquartered at the Eastern Tree

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Seed Laboratory, Brender is head of

a research unit working to develop

scientific information on the regenera-

tion, growth, and harvesting of loblolly

pine. Cultural and management tech -

niques, he has developed and demonstrated on the Hitchiti Experimental

~Officers and keynoter pause at the Southeastern Section, Society of American

Forest, have been widely adopted by Foresters' meeting in Atlanta. They are, 1-r, Chairman Tom Glass, superintendent,

forest industries.

Procurement, Union Camp Corp., Prattville, Ala.; Keynoter Thomas F. Mitchell,

The awards program of the Georgia executive representative, Georgia Pacific, Washington, D. C. ; Past Chairman AI

Sportsmen's Federation is conducted Davenport, district representative, Procurement, Union Camp Corp., Savannah;

in cooperation with the Sears-Roebuck Secretary-Treasurer William L. Reno, consultant, Savannah; Vice-President Ben

Foundation.

Meadows, consultant and Forestry Supplies, Atlanta.

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Workshop Cultivates Conservationists

EDITOR'S NOTE: Applications are being taken for the tenth annual Natural Resources Conservation Workshop. The workshop will be held at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton, June 6-11. Workshop Director Sam G. Dunaway, Soil Conservation Service, Winder, 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.

One of Georgia's outstanding youth activities, the f irst of its type in the United States, is the Natural Resources Conservation Workshop. This annual educational activity is sponsored jointly by the Georgia Chapter, Soil Conservation Society of America and the Georgia Association of Conservation District Su pervisors .
The workshop, held at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton, was started in 1962. Other colleges which have hosted this event are Berry College, Rome, and Georgia Southern College, Statesboro.
A total of 1,575 high school boys have graduated from this one-week workshop. These youths were carefully selected on the basis of interest in con servation and participation in various related club activities. Many Boy Scouts have used this opportunity to progress in their merit badge accomplishments. Scholarships for boys attending the workshop are sponsored locally in each county by civic clubs, banks, soil conservation districts, veterans' and women's organizations, and business concerns.
The purpose of the workshop is to instruct the students in the rudiments of conserving the natural resources. The boys study four major disciplines; Planning and Application of Soil and Water Conservation Practices on Rural and Urban Lands; Wildlife and Recreation; Forestry and Environment; and Research, Soils and Watersheds. An additional purpose is to stimulate interest in participating in and supporting conservation, or even, in some cases, creating the desire to become professional conservationists.
Pollution is a major topic of conservation, but the Natural Resources Conservation Workshop seeks to solve this problem by helping to create a quality 12

environment through conservation education . This can be summarized by the workshop yell, "Down with Pollution, Up with Conservation to build a better environment."
The week's activities include classroom lectures, outdoor land judging, and tours to observe conservation work. For the past two years, an ali -day trip to the Okefenokee Swamp, near Waycross, has provided an unusual opportunity for observing and studying a wide variety of plants and wildlife.
A 1968 survey of workshop graduates showed that 50 percent attended or were enrolled in college and 20 percent have become professional conservation ists or were engaged in farming or agri business.
Sam G. Dunaway, District Conserva-
tionist, Soil Conservation Service, Win der, is the workshop director. He has been assisted by A. P. Barnett, Agricul -

tural Service, and Charles B. Place, Jr., Georgia Forestry Commission .
Instructors and Counselors for the workshop are furnished by the Soil Conservation Service, Georgia Game and Fish Commission, Georgia Forestry Commission, Agricultural Research Ser vice, U. S. Forest Service and other cooperating agricultural agencies.
More than $800 in prizes are awarded to outstanding students each year. The first place award, to the student making the highest score on all phases of conservation study, is a camera, a plaque, and a $333 scholarship to any college of his choice in the University of Georgia System. The second place winner is awarded an automatic shotgun . Addi tional prizes are awarded top scorers in each phase of study.
Recreation is an intergral part of the program . Softball and swimming are favorite activities with prizes offered for competitive events. The highlight of the recreational program is a Bl G dance on Wednesday ni.ght.
by : W. Bailey Jones, Chairman Workshop Information Committee District Conservationist SCS, Carnesville, Ga.

The Paper Oven

T.J. McConnell and first oven - The bowl is used to hold charcoal.
The culinary art has an added dimension, and the paper industry a new product.
Passing through the valley sections of White County, shouldered by the rising Blue Ridge Mountains, the kitchen aromas are caught in the awaking morning. This accentuates your anxiety to reach your destination and a look at and hopefully a sample from the "Paper Oven" .
Out of Cleveland, you watch for Ga. 356 and then for the five mile post which marks a shady lane and the resi dence of T. J . McConnell , inventor and retired professor of Industrial Arts at the University of Florida.
The McConnell household is a picture of quiet but progressive resourcefulness with products of their inventiveness about, including the "paper oven" or Hillbilly Oven by trade name .
Mr. McConnell says the idea of the oven originated from the old dutch oven or deep skillet. The oven in its cylinder form, was unimpressively sitting on an eye of the stove, cooking, unknowingly to me, a roast .
As McConnell pointed out there is no odor, no boiling and no pressure as the maximum temperature is 190 degrees. This, he emphasizes, allows for slow

cooking. The wife, for example, could put grits on for breakfast the night before, or start her supper before leaving for work.
The Hillbilly Oven is 14 inches in diameter and sits on a triangle steel brace . It can be used on gas, electric and charcoal stoves. The oven can be obtained in 12 or 16 inch height sizes.
The oven is constructed of 90 pound paper and the inside coated with ceram ic paint.
McConnell has been making and selling his oven for about seven years. However, he adds that he enjoys trading more than selling. His trades have included an oil heater, stove , plows , a four wheel wagon and two pairs of shoes .
McConnell has put paper to other uses. He constructed 13 buildings for his youth camp out of paper using laminated paper beams and paper roofing. A fireplace and a kiosh are other items in which he utilized his paper ingenuity.

The finishing touches are put on the tube part of the oven. The homemade crimper consists of an automobile wheel and bearing and lawnmower bearing.
Mrs. McConnell shares her husband's ingenuity, teaching school in Gainesville and making models from various rocks she collects.
McConnell points out that the surface has hardly been scriltched in the field of paper products. He adds that paper's ready availability and low cost warrants closer study and research into expanded uses in an inflationary society .

The proof is in the pudding (meat).

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LETTERS
SHADE TREE

FIRE SUPPRESSION
This letter is to express my appreciation to Ranger Jerry Ridley for his assistance when my automobile was damaged by fire near Eatonton .

Logging The

I greatly appreciate Mr. Wesley Wells recent visit with Ranger H. F. Davenport to the

I feel certain that you consider such an act as a simple, natural courtesy which anyone

grounds surrounding the President's Home at Young Harris College. We are grateful for your

would gladly offer. Even so, his eagerness to help and the capable manner in which he

advice and we plan to follow your suggestions

performed was worthy of commendation and

I am indeed grateful to him and the Forestry

carefully.

Commission for his valuable assistance at a

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Be assured of our lasting appreciation for your

time when it was badly needed .

fine work in our area and for your specific

I am also grateful to the others who helped

interest in the trees on the campus of Young

Harris College.

even though I am unable to identify them.

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Douglas Reid Sasser President Young Harris College

H. H. Thomas Vidalia, Georgia

EXHIBITS
It was really a tremendous Stay & See Geor:l gia Week at Lenox Square! One of the most exciting weeks of exhibits and entertainment that we have ever had--and we 've had a lot of them!
Without a doubt, your exhibit was an important contributing factor and I want to extend my very sincerest thanks to you and all of those in your group who worked so tirelessly and gave so much time to making the Georgia Forestry exhibit such an attraction .
I hope you feel as we do that Stay & See Georgia Week was mutually beneficial and we look forward to having you back next year.
Chess Lagomarsino Lenox Square Association
Thank you for your cooperation and participation in Stay & See Georgia Week ..... l was quite pleased! We feel that our second year was greater than the first and that next year we can progress even further .
Please convey our sincere thanks to all of those who worked with you in making the Georgia Forestry Commission Exhibit such a tremendous success.
Mozelle Christian Travel Council Georgia Chamber of Commerce
On behalf of the DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs, thank you for the most interesti ng exhib it which you did for our Flower Show "Springs Our Thing". Your time and effort in making our show a success is greatly appreciated .
DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs
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I just want to take this opportunity to thank the members of the Forestry Unit for a most efficient job in controlling a brush fire on our property on Highway 54 West last Friday , December 4, 1970.
Norman Trammell Fayetteville, Georgia
I own the Merryway Plantation which is about six miles south of Thomasville, Georgia and east of Route 19.
As you know, that country is terribly dry and, therefore , a real fire hazard. On Thursday, December 1Oth, someone started a series of six fires on my place. Evidently, this was done by simply throwing matches out of the car window as they drove over the public road which cuts through my property. There was no indi cation that the individual even got out of his car. The time of this was about 2 :00P .M .
We contacted your Ranger Station and I wish to congratulate you on the efficient manner in which they handled our problem. Your ranger in charge, Mr. Wyman Lastinger, got moving promptly and with his equipment and the help of one of your planes, the fire was contained
We , of course, had our tractors out but I know we would have suffered a much larger loss without the help of your unit. As it was, approximately 250 acres were burned but this was open land and did not endanger any houses or tree plantings.
I made a point of getting over to see Mr. Lastinger the day after the fire and told him and his crew how much I appreciated their help.
You have a very efficient unit there and I thought you would be interested in a landowner's opinion.
William D. Cox Thomasville, Georgia

The nation's largest Buckeye tree has been found on Buzzard Roost Mountain near Young Harris by C. B. Bryson of Young Harris. He was accompanied by Wesley Wells, Area forester, Georgia Forestry Commission, Blue Ridge. The tree has a circumference of 13' 2W'; is 131' in height; and has a crown spread of 10'. The tree was certified by the American Forestry Association, Washington, D.C. STEWARDSHIP...Soil Stewardship Week will be celebrated from May 16-23. Con servation districts across the country will join with local churchmen in calling attention to man's duties as a steward of land, water, forests and wildlife.
George Bishop, chief, Forest Administration Division, Georgia Forestry Commission, left, celebrates 30 years of service with a cake presented by Julian Reeves, deputy director.

Foresters ...
Service Awards

FACULTY .. .W. A. Campbell and Rufus H. Page, both U. S. Forest Service retirees, have been added to the School of Forest Resources faculty at the University of Georgia. The announcement was made by Dean A . M. Herrick.

20 YEARS

Frank 0. Bagweii. .. .... ... Ciaims Examiner Atlanta, Ga. Nov. 1, 1970

Frank Herbert Davis.....Towerman Folkston, Ga . Feb. 28, 1970

Homer L. Grizzle....... ... Patrolman Cartersville, Ga. Oct. 1, 1970

Leon E. Newsome, Jr. ..Towerman Columbus, Ga. Oct. 1' 1970
AWARDS ...Wilson Wright, forester, Metro Atlanta, Georgia Forestry Commission, has received the Marietta-Cobb Civic Board of Beautification Award of Merit in recognition of meritorious accomplishment and leadership in environ mental conservation and beautification of Marietta and Cobb County. The award was presented by Mrs. Virginia H. Tumlin, president.

Andy B. Newby, ranger, Dade County Forestry Unit, presents Elbert Forester, editor, Dade County Sentinel, a commendation for the space devoted to forest conservation and improving the environment. Forester said, "Whatever contribution we have made in the in terest of forest conservation is considered one of the most important obligations of our home paper."

Ray Shirley, director, Georgia Forestry Commission, left, receives a "pulaski" tool from Douglass A Craig, director, Southeastern Area, State and Private Forestry, U. S. Forest Service. The "pulaski" symbolizes Georgia's participation in sending volunteers to suppress forest fires in the nation's far West last August. Photo by USFS.
OFFICE ...W. L. "Buddy" Crowri, wood procurement manager, Owens-Illinois, Valdosta, has been named chairman of the 1971 Georgia Tree Farm Committee. Crown succeeds H. J. Malsberger, Jr., assistant woodlands manager, Great Northern Paper Co., Cedar Springs.

MEETINGS...The 1971 Machinery and Equipment Exposition of the Southern Forest Products Association , April 30May 3, Southeastern Fair Grounds, Atlanta ...SFPA, May 3-4, Regency Hyatt House, Atlanta ...Forest Farmers Associ ation's 30th Southern Forestry Conference, May 19-21, Carolina Hotel, Pinehurst, N.C... "Building A Better Environ ment With The Third Forest" is the theme of the First Regional Technical Conference of the Society of American Foresters, May 25-27, Jacksonville, Fla ... Georgia Forestry Association, June 1315, Aquarama, Jekyll Island .
APPOINTMENT...James G. Byrne has been appointed Ecologist for the 13state Southern Region of the U. S. Forest Service, announces T. A. Schlapfer, regional forester, Atlanta .

These Georgia Forestry Commission foresters have completed a Defensive Driver Instructor Training course that qualifies them to teach defensive driving. The course was taught by Milton Rose, Commission chief investigator, right. The trainees are, 1-r, Robert Little, Michael Ryfun, Thomas R. Hill, Johnny McPherson, Hillard A Stephens and Billy James. Others are Francis Palmer, Wesley M. Jones, Charlie Meadows and Rufus Youmans.

Georgia FORESTRY
March, 1971

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SECOND-CLASS POST AGE PAID AT DRY BRANCH, GA.
ACQUISITIONS DIVISION UNIVERSITY Of GEORGIA UNIVERSITY LIBRAR\ES ATHENS, GA. 30601

Pnoto By MGM Television
Lorne Greene, popular star of NBC's Bonanza Television Series, visits with Chuck Williams, U.S. Forest Service Technical Advisor from Pasadena, California. Mr. Greene narrated the second in a series of G. E. Monogram Specials for NBC Television entitled "WILDFIRE!" Williams, the Forest Service Technical Advisor coordinated the MGM filming crews last summer as they documented one of Washington's worst forest fire disasters of the century.
"WILDFIRE!", produced with the cooperation of the U.S. Forest Service, is an exciting documentary about 10,000 firefighters as they battled more than 118,000 acres of rampaging forest fires within the Wenatchee and Okanogan forests of the Pacific Northwest. Don't let it happen in Georgia. Help us Keep Your Forests Green.