Georgia forestry, Vol. 24, no. 3 (Sept. 1971)

Georgia Forestry

Sept. 1971

No.3

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
High Gum Yielding Slash Pine Grown .........................................................................3 Information Center Dedicated ....................................................................................4 Survey Reaches Halfway Mark....................................................................................5 Wood-Using Industries in Georgia...............................................................................6 Forestry in Natural Resources Agency ........................................................................7 Ecology and Taxes Gain Delegates Attention ..........................................................B-9 Forestry Faces and Places....................................................................................10-11 Memorial Honors Late Extension Forester
New Offices Built.................................................................................................12 Forest Protection Funds Anticipated
Shirley Heads Forestry Sub-Committee................................................................13 Logging the Foresters................................................................................................15
Cruising The News
Understanding Modern Forestry...
Myths die hard. Sometimes they can do a great deal of harm in the dying process. An official of a major timber company has described how widely-held myths about forests in the United States threaten both efficient conservation and utilization of the nation's major renewable resource. Among the myths blasted by this timber official is the belief that when a small section of the forest is harvested each year by man instead of nature, it is lost forever. Actually, "the harvested, stagnant section of mature timber quickly becomes a green and growing new forest," providing food for wildlife that dying wilderness denies. Another myth is that it takes forever to grow a new tree. The timber company official says that modern forestry can grow two forests in a man's lifetime, while nature, without help, requires two or three lifetimes. "We already are approaching the 40-year cycle for merchantable timber," he says.
A third popular mvth is the notion that old-growth timber has been living almost since time began. This is, perhaps, the most erroneous of all. Much "old-growth" timber wasn't yet in existence when early pioneers braved the wilderness. Still another myth is that trees--mature--trees do not need to be used because homes can be built of steel, aluminum, plastic or concrete. However, unlike trees, the latter are non-renewable resources and will someday come to an end. The timber company executive also pointed out just because forests are "managed" to attain greatest productivity, it does not mean they become mere farms. Present-day timber conservation offers the greatest opportunities for recreation and the regeneration of wildlife.
(From the Metter Advertiser)
The Obiect Is Wood
If industry and the building trades are able to supply the anticipated demands in 2000 A.D., they can thank the current planting of tree seedlings.
The Southern Forest lnstitite reports that nearly 70 million seedlings have been planted ir Georgia during the 1969-70 season, and forestry leaders say the fast pace of planting will continue through next year.
To Georgia's credit, the plantings in this state represent about 15 percent of all seedlings distributed for planting by pulp and paper, lumber and plywood companies in 13 different Southern states.
Forestry pumps needed lifeblood into the economy of the Southeast and into Georgia. For instance, the value of just pulpwood harvested and sold during the past year exceeded $160 million--a gain of 10 percent over the previous year.
Add to this the industries which process and use wood products, with their payroll, the wholesale and retail businesses which handle the products, and the people who grow and protect the the forests, and we already can grow and protect the forests, and we already can visualize what forestry can do for the section and the nation within another 30 years.
(From the Vidalia Advance)

High Gum Yielding Slash Pine Gro\Nn

High gum yielding slash pine tree seedlings are being made available to Georgia landowners for the first time this year, announced Ray Shirley, director, Georgia Forestry Commission.
The production of the 942,000 slash pine, selectively grown for naval stores, represents another step forward in the Georgia Forestry Commission's Tree Improvement Program.
High gum yield trees were selected in Georgia and Florida based on the criteria that the selection must produce twice the amount of gum than a tree of the same diameter. The best first generation trees, from these selections, were selected and cuttings made available to cooperating agencies. In 1971, the Georgia Forestry Commission is making available trees, from the above first generation, which are classified as second generation trees from the original parent tree selection. These trees were tested and have shown a 12 percent volume growth above average and 50-100 percent more gum production than average.
For the second straight year, Improved, "Super" tree seedlings were grown from certified seed. The certified seed

stock will account for 46 percent of the total tree seedling crop of 50,745,424 trees, Shirley said. The improved tree seedlings consist of loblolly and slash pines.
Approximately 44,627,044 tree seedlings are available for order by Georgia landowners. An additional 6,118,380 tree seedlings are being grown under contract for industries. The seed, furnished by industry, came from their seed producing orchards.
In announcing the availability of tree seedlings, Shirley reported that prices are the same as for last year. Two species, black locust and baldcypress were added to the production list. Dropped from the list were swamp chestnut oak, chestnut oak and white oak.
James C. Wynens, chief, Reforestation Division, said that the early submission of orders is encouraged as all orders received prior to the first of November will be filled depending on supply. If orders exceed supply, the trees will be prorated between orders. Orders received after the first of November, Wynens added, will be filled on a first come, first serve basis.

He pointed out that seedling application forms can be obtained from the Forestry Commission County Rangers, County Agents, Soil Conservation Service Technicians and Agricultural Conservation Program Officers. All orders must be submitted on a Forestry Commission application form.
Wynens emphasized that payment must accompany all orders before shipment can be made. No refunds will be made on orders cancelled after February 1, 1972.
Mail the completed applications to the Georgia Forestry Commission, P. 0. Box 819, Macon, Ga. 31202.
For assistance in determining your reforestation needs, contact your local county forest ranger.

Ordering

Instructions

The following tree seedlings are being grown for sale by the Georgia Forestry Commission during the 1971-72 planting season.

SPECIES

50

Pines:

APPLICATION FOR NURSERY STOCK

ORDER NO. - - -

GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION MACON, GEORGIA 31202

P.O. BOX 819

NAME OF APPLICANT: ADDRESS:

PHONE NO. - - - - - - - - - CITY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ZIP CODE _ __

IF SEEDLINGS ARE TO BE DELIVERED TO SOMEONE OTHER THAN APPLICANT, COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING:

Eastern White Improved Loblolly Improved Slash Longleaf Shortleaf Slash Virginia

$ 9.00 6.00 6.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00

OTHER:

$4.50 3.00 3.00 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.50

$2.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00

AVE:NT'SNAME: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - P H O N E N O . - - - - - - - - - -

ADDRI:SS:

CITY

ZIP CODE

DELIVERY DESIRED AS SHOWN BELOW,

DATE

SPECIES

NUMBER OF SEEDLINGS

COUNTY OF PLANTING

FOREST DISTRICT AREA

TYPE OF OWNERSHIP: (Check one)
D 1. Proval'1! per~ns, Club~, Auoc1otons & Provote Schools. D 2. Pnvate Forest Industry Lumber Mfg.
tJ 3, Pr~vate Forest IndusTry Pulp & Paper. tJ 4. Provote Forest Industry Naval Stores, Plywood, etc.
0 5. Pnvoteotherlndustrylands. 0 6. Town, County, and Pvbl,c Schools. C 7, State and ather Public land.
0 8. Federal GovernmenT 0 9. Other (specify)

METHOD OF SHIPMENT'
ICheck one)

0 1

STATE TRUCK TO COUNTY FORESTRY JFFICE

0 2

APPLICANT WILL PICK UP AT NURSERY

SEEDLINGS RECEIVED IN GOOD CONDITION

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I DESIRE TO PURCHASE THE ABOVE NURSERY STOCK UNDER CONDITIONS PAINTED ON THE BACK OF THIS FOAM

PAYMENT, S - - - - - - D A T E - - - - - - - - - SIGNATURE - - - - - - - - - - - -
DO HOT WRITE BELOW THIS LINE

NURSERY ASSSIGHED'

0 DAVISBORO

0 HERTY

0 WALKER

0 MORGAN

Arizona Cypress

10.00 5.00 2.00

Lespedeza

6.00 3.00 1.00

Black Walnut

10.00 5.00 2.00

Catalpa

10.00 5.00 2.00

Cottonwood Cuttings 10.00 5.00 2.00

Dogwood

25.00 12.50 3.00

Sawtooth Oak

10.00 5.00 2.00

Red Cedar Sycamore Yellow Poplar Black Locust

10.00 5.00 2.00 10.00 5.00 2.00 10.00 5.00 2.00 10.00 5.00 2.00

Baldcypress

10.00 5.00 2.00

A transportation charge of $.50 per thousand trees and $.25 per five hundred trees must be added to the above costs if trees are delivered by State Truck to County Ranger Headquarters. All sales of less than 500 trees must be in packages of 50 priced at multiple of 50 price.
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Forestry Information Center Dedicated

Perched atop world famous Stone Mountain is a new Forest Information Center. The Center, built and manned by the Georgia Forestry Commission, is housed in the top floor of a tower constructed by the Stone Mountain Authority.
The Information Center doubles as a forest fire lookout tower, and is manned by Mrs. Inez Shubert, a Forestry Commission towerwoman. Ray Shirley, Forestry Commission director, states that the operation of the Center is coordi nated by John Mixon, Commission Metro forester in Atlanta.
The Information Center contains a cross section of a 500-year old cypress log, color transparencies with legends, a slide-tape program and other miscellaneous items.
In dedication ceremonies, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter pointed out the important role the Center could play educating people from all walks of life to the need to clean up the environment and the role trees play in the ecological picture. Some 350,000 people a year are expected to view the Information Center, he said.
Governor Carter added that he would provide funds from his emergency fund to permit the best possible presentation at the Center. This is an opportunity too great to miss, particularly, since 69 percent of Georgia is in trees, and even within a 30-mile radius of Atlanta, 64 percent of the land is in trees, the State's
chief executive emphasized. Steps have been taken in this direc-
tion with the formation of a planning committee headed by Julian Reeves, deputy director, Georgia Forestry Commission. Reeves said the committee will formulate a statement of purpose and a plan of operation for the Forestry Environmental Center that will be presented to the Stone Mountain Authority directors.
The presentation will include a bro4

The Georgia Forestry Commission's Forest Information Center, located on top of Stone Mountain, was recently dedicated by Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter. Looking at a section of a 500-year old cypress tree, located in the Center, are, 1-r, Governor Carter, Mrs. Carter, Ray Shirley, Forestry Commission director and Tommy Irvin, State Commissioner of Agriculture.

chure, artist concept and plans for exhibits and dioramas that would make up the Center.
Serving on the planning committee are Roy L. Burson, director, Tourist Division, Industry and Trade; Harold Joiner, executive director, Georgia Forestry Association; John W. Lamb, branch chief, Construction and Maintenance, Division of Engineering, Region Eight, U. S. Forest Service; and Andrew J. Olson, assistant director, Fernbank Science Center.
The ex officio members are Tom Elliott, general manager, Stone Mountain Authority and Ray Shirley , Forestry Commission director.
Prior to the appointment of the planning committee, an advisory group met with the Stone Mountain Authority to discuss the advisability and proposed plans for the Forestry Environmental Center. Out of this group the planning coml"'littee was formed .
Represented on the advisory group were the Fernbank Science Center,

Georgia Forestry Association, Georgia Forestry Commission, Stone Mountain Memorial Association, Southern Forest Institute, University of Georgia and the U. S. Forest Service.
Shirley noted that education, industry and other interests are supporting this effort and believe it affords an ex cellent opportunity to meet a real con servation need through the environmental approach.
Shirley added that the Center will become a popular addition to the existing attractions at Stone Mountain.

Survey Reaches Half~ay Mark

The Forest survey of Georgia's 37 .7

million acres has reached the halfway

point, announces Thomas A. Bellamy ,

field supervisor for the survey .

Bellamy stated that the southeastern

section of the coastal plain (unit one)

is complete. A prelim inary report on

findings is expected by the end of the

year, he added.

The late August report showed that

the survey had moved into the southern

piedmont (unit three) with 15 percent

"

of the Unit completed . Completion of

Unit three is expected by late Winter or

early Spring, 1972.

Bellamy noted t hat if the present

pace is maintained, the survey should be

completed by November 1972. This

would be ten months ahead of the

original completion date.

The field supervisor cited the cooper-

ation of Georgia Forestry Commission

personnel and the reduction of sample

plots as leading to the possible early

finishing date. The Forestry Commission

is furnishing one man in each county.

Two men make up a survey team .

It is estimated that the statewide sur-

vey will now require visiting and tabu-

lating conditions at 6,100 separate for-

est plots. The reduction from 6,796

plots was due to acreage losses in the

Georgia Forest Survey

-

Survey Complete

Survey In Progress

southwestern and southeastern sections. With the completion of the south-
eastern section, the survey field office has been moved from Jesup to Milledgeville. The State headquarters for the survey field work is the Georgia Forest Research Council at the Georgia Forestry Center near Macon.
The forest survey is being conducted by the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Forest Service, Asheville, . N. C. Joe P. McClure, project leader, Forest Survey, announced that Nolan Snyder is the new field supervisor for the Georgia survey. He succeeds Bellamy who has returned to Asheville.

The witness tree is tagged, scribed and measured. Tabulating the plot are Chip Craver, special studies assistant; and Nolan Snyder, field supervisor, USFS.
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WOOD-

USING

I

INDUSTRIES

IN

GEORGIA

A 1971 "Directory of Wood-Using Industries in Georgia" is completed announces Ray Shirley, director, Georgia Forestry Commission. The directory lists plants active in 1970, and includes a report on the economic importance of various wood-based industries in the State.
Shirley emphasized that the directory is prepared as a marketing guide and an aid in bringing buyer and seller together where Georgia grown or manufactured forest products are involved. The report should be of interest to foresters, economists and others concerned with the evaluation of timber production trends, he pointed out.
Shirley cited the directory as having the most complete listings of companies of any published by the Forestry Commission. .6

Wood-using industries, in operation during 1970, are presented in alphabetical order within each county. Names, addresses and a brief description of materials purchased and products sold are given along with a size class code based on the number of employees.
The production data is presented by geographical areas identical to the forest survey units on the 1960 Georgia Forest Survey. This enables production data to be compared directly with the forest survey statistics.
Chapters are devoted to sawmills and planing mills, veneer and plywood and treating plants, pulp and paper industries and other round timber processors. In addition, the report shows how production volumes are distributed with details on species utilized for each type

of industry. The Utilization Report shows. that in
1970 Georgia's wood-using industries, excluding pulp and paper, processed 1.478 billion board feet of logs and standing timber. Of this volume, 74 percent was pine, and 21 percent was oak, gum and poplar. Cypress, hickory, maple and several minor species accounted for the remaining five percent.
Sawmills utilized 1.121 billion board feet or 76 percent of the total. The next large user of logs and standing timber was the veneer and plywood industry which consumed 195 million board feet. Treating plants processed 105 million board feet, and other roundwood processors accounted for 56 million board feet.
Round pulpwood and residue chip production in Georgia increased in 1969. The production of 7,303,500 cords represented an increase of six percent over 1968. Wood residue chip production was 1,195,000 cords, a six percent increase over 1968.
Sawmill and planer mill residue disposal was surveyed. There were 157 sawmills reporting the use of residue chipping facilities. Another 43 sawmills sold slabs and edgings for reduction into pulp chips. Residue from 1,020 million board feet of lumber products was recovered and converted into pulp and paper products. SQiid residue, from 95 million board feet, was burned, piled, or left at temporary mill sites, because the volume or location made it uneconomical to chip or sell.
Shirley added that the publication was made possible through the fine response and cooperation of the woodusing industries to the requests made by the Forestry Commission foresters and county rangers who gathered the information.
The combined Report and Directory was compiled by Paul M. Butts and Floyd W. Hubbard, Jr., Forestry Commission forest products utilization specialists.

ministration and management. It is a move that will improve state services and save money . Specific governmental programs are not involved in the study.
The 18 surviving agencies, called "preliminary functional groupings" by the study team, in the preliminary reorganization plan would serve in these areas: Agriculture, Business Regulation (Comptroller General). Education, Executive Office, Labor, Law, Public Service Commission, Office of Secretary of State, Treasury, Administration, Community Affairs and Development, De-

sion, Groveland Lake Development, Stone Mountain Memorial Park, Jekyll Island State Park, North Georgia Moun tains Commission, Lake Lanier Islands Development and Soil and Water Conservation Commission.
Forest Research Council, Mineral Leasing Commission, Surface Mined Land Use Board , Council for the Preservation of Natural Areas, Ocean Science Center of the Atlantic, Altamaha River Basin Development Commission and the Chattahoochee River Basin Development Commission complete the list.

The presentation was made by Tom

Linder, Jr., State Planning Officer, who

is project director for the reorganization

Photo by Fabian Bachrach
Gov. Jimmy Carter

Forestry

study and a member of the committee. Linder pointed out that the prelimi-
nary plan does not deal with more than 200 non-budgeted boards, commissions

A preliminary Georgia state reorgani -

zation plan, reducing the number of

state budgeted agencies from 65-18 has

been announced.

The tentative proposals were unveil-



ed by a 107 -member study team to the

organization Executive Committee of

state and business leaders who will de-

cide on the final plan to be submitted

to the 1972 General Assembly.

Governor Jimmy Carter, chairman

of the committee, emphasized that the

preliminary proposals definitely will

change. "The reorganization study will

continue until around October 1," he

said. "There are many important ele-

ments that still must be taken into con-

sideration before final decisions can be

made."

1 n
Natural Resources
Agency

and bureaus. "Those 200 agencies are being stud-
ied now and will be placed in appropriate departments when the reorganization structure is completed this fall ," he noted .
"There are 17 support studies underway," Linder said. "We expect to save many millions of dollars in these vital areas. A final decision in these areas almost certainly will produce some changes in the preliminary plan."
A third element, yet to be added to the preliminary plan, according to the project director, is a recommendation on the type of director or board that should head each of the agencies finally recommended to the General Assembly for reorganization.

The Governor said the preliminary

"Specific recommendations in this

recommendations are being made pub-

area will be made," Linder stated.

lic to keep Georgia citizens, state offi-

While all 65 budgeted agencies are

cials and legislators informed of the re-

listed under one of the 18 groupings,

organization plans.

Linder said this does not mean that the

"We are interested in stimulating

organizational identity of these agencies

public discussion so that the best possi-

will be maintained in the final proposal.

ble plan can be developed," Governor

"It does mean that the functions

Carter pointed out.

tense, Human Resources, Natural Re- now carried on by the various agencies

Various alternatives to the realignment of state agencies were also presented to the Executive Committee.

sources, Public Safety, Revenue, Transportation and University System of Georgia.

under a particular grouping would be the responsibility of the new agency finally created," he said.

"We will study these alternatives and

The Georgia Forestry Commission

Besides Governor Carter and Linder,

many other aspects of state government falls under the Natural Resources Agen- members of the Executive Committee

before making a final decision," Gover- cy. Other agencies aligned in the Natural are Senator Lamar R. Plunkett, Repre-

nor Carter added.

Resources Agency are Game and Fish, sentative George D. Busbee, State Audi-

Reorganization was authorized by Mines, Mining and Geology, Public tor Ernest B. Davis, State Budget Offi-

the 1971 General Assembly to stream- Health (environmental areas), Commis- cer J. Battle Hall and Clifford Clarke,

line and simplify the executive branch sioner of Conservation and Recreation. President of the Georgia Business and

of state government in the areas of ad-

Included are the Historical Commis- Industry Association.

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GFA

Ecology And Taxes Gain

Delegates Attention

Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter has called for concern about ecology, erosion , balance of nature, beauty and economic benefit from our surroundings now and for many decades to come .
Addressing Georgia Forestry Associa tion delegates at their banquet at Jekyll Island, Gov. Carter emphasized that there is no time to waste.
He cited Georgia 's tremendous advan tage over other states in having 69 percent of its land area in trees. The Governor pointed out that our position of preserving trees has come about because of two basic reasons. They are enlighten ed leadership on the part of many people, and an inherent love of a human being for the outdoors, for pure water and for a beautiful tree.
Georgia's executive leader noted the state's relatively good position and the need to do much more. "We must edu cate our citizens about the beauties we have, the contribution of our forest lands to the enjoyment of our own lives, the economic benefit to be derived from it and how to answer their own questions about how to best utilize forest resources and outdoor beauty ," Carter added.
"One of the major limiting factors in doubling tree production in Georgia is that of ad valorem taxes."
Thomas T . Irvin, commissioner, Georgia Department of Agriculture, keynoting the Association's 1971 annual meeting reminded members that Georgia's forest industries employ one out of every five Georgians and that approximately 200,000 persons own forest land in Georgia.
However, Commissioner Irvin emphasized that new sources of tax income, to support local governments, are a necessity if Georgia and other areas are to meet forestry needs of the future.
The Forestry Association's tax committee has called for an amendment of the state constitution providing that the evaluation of farm and forest land for ad valorem tax purposes be based on the capability of the land to produce farm and forest crops rather than on fair market value.
Adron Harden , Macon, legislation and commodity director, Georgia Farm Bu reau; W. N. Haynes, Savannah, manager, Woodlands Division, Union Camp Corp.; and Dr. L. A . Hargreaves, Jr ., Athens, professor, School of Forest Resources,
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University of Georgia, comprising a "Taxes and Trees" panel, held that the law should encourage landowners to maintain their property in a productive condition ; not devastated to produce the tax base .
The present law encourages clear cutting and the liquidation of the forestry enterprise.
The panel presented a proposed bill , "The Open Space Land Assessment Act" which wi ll be put into the 1972 legislative hopper. The Act calls for the preservation of farm forest and other open space land for the production of farm and forest crops, for the raising of livestock, to conserve for the use and en joyment of its citizens recreation, green belts, natural areas, historic sites and aesthetics, and to prevent the forced conversion of such open space lands to more intensive uses as the result of economic pressures caused by the assessment of ad valorem taxes.
Robert H. Collom, Jr. , director, Air Quality Control Branch, Georgia Department of Public Health, pointed out that state laws exempt the control of burning over forested areas. He emphasized that the law will have to be changed so that it will have power over prescribed burning. Collom said that the law will not stop burning, but will control the time and purpose of any burning.
He cited the pulp and paper mills as a large contributor to our air pollution problems. However, through their cooperation, mills are slated to meet all requirements by the end of 1973.
The General session of the three day meeting was concluded with presentations by W.M. Oettmeier, Fargo, presi dent, Superior Pine Products Co. and Eddie Millsaps, Marietta, State 4H forestry champion.
Oettmeier made a film presentation, "Forestry-Yesterday" depicting early 20th century forest management practices. Millsaps discussed " Youth and Forestry" noting the complimentary roles of environment and trees.
Gerald B. Saunders, in his president's report, noted the growth of the Association during the past year of 33 percent. He cited the increase as a step toward the Association goal of making the GFA the largest membership group in the state.
In making his final report to the delegates, Saunders reminded them of the

Noll A. Van Cleave
importance of forestry calling attention to the growth of wood-using industry , development of genetically improved trees and the effect on the state 's economic profile.
Noll A. Van Cleave of Columbus was named president of the Association . He succeeds Gerald B. Saunders of Columbus who was elected chairman of tlie board.
William Pope of Washington was elected vice president. The Wilkes County landowner is a past member of the Asso ciation's board of directors. Other officers are Jim Howard, president, Atlanta Hardwood Co., Atlanta, treasurer. He succeeds C. M. Chapman who retired.
Harold Joiner, executive director, and Mrs. Helen M. Dixon, secretary , both of Atlanta, were reelected to their respective positions.
Van Cleave is president of Valleywood, Inc., Richland . He has beim associated with the company since 1957 in his present position . Previous business associations have been with Union Camp Paper Corp., Savannah , 1950-51 and St. Regis Paper Co ., Pensacola, Fla., 1951 57.
The native of Mobile, Ala. is a past director and vice president of the GFA. He is a member of the Society of Ameri can Foresters, American Pulpwood Association and the Florida Forestry Associ ation .
Van Cleave is a member of the Columbus Rotary Club and a past presi dent of the Pensacola, Fla. Lions Club.
A 1950 graduate of the University of Auburn School of Forestry, Van Cleave served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1944-45. At Auburn he was a member of the Forestry Club and Sigma Ch i fraternity.
Van Cleave and his wife, the former Betty Steber of Mobile, Ala ., have three children. They are Skipper, 14; and

won the Forest Education and Refores-

tation awards. The Brunswick Area con-

sists of Brantley, Camden and Glynn

Counties.

Another dual winner was the Rich-

mond County Forestry Unit, headed by

T.M. Strickland. The Unit took the

Forest Education and Reforestation a-

wards on the Unit level.

The Forest Administration award

went to the Bainbridge Area headed by

W.J . Royal. The Area counties are

Decatur, Grady and Seminole.

The Forest Management Area award

went to the Millen Area headed by

Gerald W. Green . The Area counties are

Miss Georgia Forestry Dianne Brown

Burke, Jenkins and Screven. The Haral son -Polk Forestry Unit, headed by Spen-

Louie F. Deaton

daughters Devery, 16; and Jane, 17.

cer McGraw, received the Forest Man- to the city. It was through his early

The Van Cleave's are members of the agement Unit award.

work and demands for forestry services

St. Annes Catholic Church in Columbus.

The Forest Protection Area award that the Forestry Commission Metro

The 1971 Miss Georgia Forestry is 18 was taken by the McRae Area headed Forestry Program had its inception in

year old Dianne Brown of Columbus. by H. Grady Williams. The Area coun- 1967.

The hazel-eyed blonde was crowned by ties are Bleckley, Dodge and Laurens.

The citation was presented by the

the reigning queen, Miss Lana Funder- The Glynn County Forestry Unit, head- Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Com-

burke of Metter. Miss Harriett Cooper ed by Clarence Hilburn, won the Forest mittee, Mal Hardy, director, U.S. Forest

of Ochlochnee was the runnerup.

Protection Unit award.

Service. The presentation was made by

In winning the pageant, Miss Brown

Nelson Brightwell, forester, Georgia William H. Brandau, chief, Cooperative



received a $500 college scholarship. During the year, she will represent the Asso-

Extension Service, Athens, presented the awards.

Fire Control Division, State and Private Forestry, USFS, Atlanta.

ciation at various forestry functions.

The awards program was highlighted

The Association's Forestry Public

Miss Brown, chosen from a field of by the presentation of the Smokey Bear Service award went to George F. Ste-

23 county forestry queens, is the daugh - Citation for outstanding service in the wart, editor, Brantley Enterprise, Na-

ter of Sgt. and Mrs. Ernest A. Walter of field of forest fire prevention. Louie F. hunta , and Christopher A. Barbier, sales

Columbus. Miss Cooper is the daughter Deaton of Fairburn, Atlanta Metro For- manager, WJCL-TV, Savannah. The a-

of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Cooper of Och- ester, Forestry Commission, was the re- wards were presented the media in recog-

lochnee.

cipient. Deaton was cited for his imagi- nition of the time, space and effort given

There were seven winners of the Per- nation and creativity in the utilization to the perpetuation of forest conser-

formance of Excellence Awards. The of Smokey the Bear and his own crea- vation.

Brunswick Area, headed by H.L. Neal, tion, "Mister Tree", in bringing forestry

Distinguished Service awards were

presented to Cecil W. Chapman, retired

State Conservationist, Soil Conservation

Service, USDA, Athens; C.M. Chapman,

retired treasurer, GFA, Atlanta; and

.

Kirk Armstrong, seed processor Forestry Commission, Macon .

Cecil Chapman was cited for his 38

years of service, the past 17 as State

Conservationist, with the SCS. Through-

out his tenure, he consistently supported

tree planting and forest management as

one of the main parts of the total soil

and water conservation program in Geor-

gia.

C.M. Chapman was noted for hisser-

vices to the GFA during his term as

treasurer;

Armstrong was cited for contribu-

tions to Reforestation in Georgia. He is

in charge of the Forestry Commission's

seed processing facilities, and has work-

ed in the Tree Improvement Program in

Areas and Units recognized by the Georgia Forestry Association are, 1-r, Gerald W forest genetics.

Green, Millen Area; T.M. Strickland, Richmond County; Spencer McGraw, Haralson-

The awards were presented by the

Polk; Kirk Armstrong, Seed Processing; Clarence Hilburn, Glynn County; H. Grady Association's executive director, Harold

Williams, McRae Area; H. L. Neal, Brunswick Area; and WJ. Royal, Bainbridge Area.

Joiner.

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...._L. W. Eberhardt, Jr., director, Uni-
versity of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service, has retired after 35 years with the organization.
President Fred C. Davison, in announcing Eberhardt's retirement, praised him for his strong leadership qualities.
He pointed out that Eberhardt, who was named Extension Director and a professor on the University faculty in 1963, has given leadership to the development of three long-range programs to increase the state's agricultural income and to boost Georgia's total economy. Major program activities have centered around agricultural efficiency, home economics, 4H Club work, and community and resource development including work with agribusiness firms.
During this time, he has seen the state's agricultural income increase from $835 million in 1959 to nearly $1.4 billion in 1969. Net income per farm went up from $2,224 to $6,528 during the period.
In beginning his Extension career in 1936, Eberhardt served as an assistant county agent and as a county agent. He also served on the state staff as assistant forester, assistant state 4H Club leader . and district agent for the southcentral district. He was appointed Associate Director in 1954.
Eberhardt, chairman, Southern Extension Directors, is a member of the advisory committee of the agricultural committee of the Southern Region Education Board and the executive committee for conduct of the State Technical Services program.
In 1959 he received a Superior Service Award from the USDA in recogni10

tion of his work in reorgan1zmg the Georgia Extension Service. In 1964 he was named by the Progressive Farmer magazine as Man -of-the-Year in Service to Georgia's agriculture. He was cited by the Georgia Association of County Commissioners in 1970 as Georgia 's Man-ofthe-Year.
Eberhardt is a member of a number of honorary societies including Phi Kappa Phi, Aghon , Gamma Sigma Delta and Gridiron . He is a former president of the Alumni Association of the School of Forest Resources and a former district membership chairman for the University Alumni Society.
He is married to the former Eleanor Bailey, of Douglas. They have two sons and four grandchildren .

Forestry Faces
The Ellingtons have two children, a daughter, Martha, who is married and living in Maryland, and a son, Charles, who is an honor student in the pre-med program at Duke University.
LAMAR W. CLARK
~A patrolman with the MontgomeryTreutlen-Wheeler Forestry Unit, Lamar W. Clark, 61, has died. He worked out of the Wheeler Co. office.
The native of Wheeler Co . came with the Georgia Forestry Commission as a towerman in 1961, and was promoted to assistant patrolman in the same year. Clark was elevated to patrolman in 1971 .
Ray Shirley, Forestry Commission director, praised his service, pointing out dedication to job and high regard for responsibility .

ERNEST H. TERRY

~Dr. Charles P. Ellington, director of programs for the Maryland State Board of Agriculture, has been named director of the Cooperative Extension Service of the University of Georgia College of Agriculture.
A native of Lindale and a graduate of the University of Georgia College of Agriculture, 1950, Dr. Ellington succeeds
Mr. L. W. (Hoop) Eberhardt, Jr., who
has retired. He received the M.S. degree from the University of Maryland in 1952 and the Ph.D. degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1964.
The new Extension director is a member of the American Society of Agronomy and Crop Science Society of America, and Alpha Zeta, Phi Kappa Phi and Epsilon Sigma Phi fraternities. He has been active in scouting, Boys Club work and Rotary.
Dr. Ellington is married to the former Margaret Bean of Trion, Georgia.

..... Former Georgia Forestry Commission special investigator Ernest H. Terry is dead.
A native of Forsyth County, Terry came with the Forestry Commission in 1945 as an investigator in the Gainesville District. He was made chief investigator in charge of law enforcement in 1946. In 1956, he became special investigator.
Terry, a former private railroad investigator for Tallulah Falls and Southern railroads, was a former inspector for the Commodities Division of Georgia.
HENRY D. STORY, JR.
..,.Henry Dave Story, Jr., 71, a former acting state forester, is dead .
The native of Amite, La . came with the Forestry Commission as a district forester in 1931. Story was appointed acting assistant State forester in December 1946 and served until April 1947. He left the Forestry Commission in 1947 as assistant district forester returnto Louisiana.
While in charge of the nursery program in Georgia, Story had a prominent role in starting the Flowery Branch and Herty Nurseries.

And Places
..... Cecil W. Chapman, State conservationist, Soil Conservation Service, USDA, has retired.
Chapman has served at various technical and administrative levels of responsibility with the SCS up to the position of state conservationist which he held since 1954. In this capacity , he directed all of the program activities of the SCS in Georgia.
Chapman consistently supported tree planting and forest management as one of the main parts of the total soil and

water conservation program in Georgia. A 1932 graduate of the University of
Georgia with a degree in Agricultural Engineering, Chapman went with the U. S. Department of Agriculture in 1933. In his 38 years of service, he helped establish the first soil erosion demonstration project in Georgia on Sandy Creek at Athens. He was a member of the supervisory staff of the first CCC Camp in Georgia in Stephens County . Chapman assisted in establishing the first tree seedling nursery in Georgia by the federal government near Americus.
Chapman has been recognized by his fellow professionals including the USDA, Soil Conservation Society of America and the Georgia Forestry Association.
The native of Emanuel County served as commander of the 1st Battalion, 347th Infantry during the Battle of the Bulge. He concluded his military career with the rank of Lt. Colonel.
He is a member of the SCSA, Ameri -
can Society of Agricultural Engineers and American Legion . Chapman is a Mason, an Elk and a Rotarian.
Chapman is married to the former Miss Claudie Wheeler of Sparta. They have four daughters, Suzanne, Cecilia, Claudia and Linda. The family is a mem ber of the Baptist Church .

......w. Bailey Jones, district conserva-
tionist, Soil Conservation Service, BanksFranklin Work Unit, won first place for the black and white photo, "From Tree to Tray" in the Georgia Chapter, SCSA sponsored contest. Wi II Brady, 77, for the past 44 years has been hewing bread trays from river birch trees. It takes four days to produce one tray starting with stock on left. Photo by USDA-SCS.

...._H. R. Horton, center, Mt. Vernon, has retired after 17-years service as a nurseryman with the Georgia Forestry Commission. John W. Johnson, superintendent, Horseshoe Bend Seed Orchard, presented Horton with a Faithful Service Award. Participating in the ceremony was Terrell Brooks, assistant chief, Reforestation Division, Forestry Commission, Macon. Ray Shirley, Forestry Commission director, said the retired nurseryman can be proud of the part he has played in Georgia's tree genetics program. Shirley added that his work was a tribute to him as a man and to the State as an employee.

.,...There are 48,900 forest acres in Barrow County. This represents 44.7 percent of the land area.
Approximately 85 percent of the forest acreage is farmer-owned. Industryowned forest acreage is 1.6 percent. The forest acreage has a growing volume of 78.3 million board feet of sawtimber and 562,000 cords of pulpwood.
In 1969 there were 21,284 cords of round pulpwood produced. The highest productive year was 1967 when 21,570 cords were harvested. Since 1946, production has totaled 139,936 cords of round pulpwood.
There are three wood-using industries in the county employing approximately 61 people with a payroll of $238,272. The products of these industries include bedroom furniture , green and air dried lumber, cabinets, millwork and pulpwood.
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Memorial Honors

Late Extension Forester

A memorial program, honoring the late C. Dorsey Dyer, Georgia's Extension Forester, was recently held at the

Rock Eagle 4H Center. Friends from over the State gathered to pay tribute to th is great forester whose innovative for-

The portrait of the late C. Dorsey Dyer will be displayed in the Union Camp Cottage at Rock Eagle. Participating in the ceremony were, 1-r, Mrs. Ethel Lee Dyer, Dorsey Dyer, Jr. and Cooper R. Dyer, all of Athens; Mrs. Martha H. Dyer, Savannah; and J. David Dyer, Sparta.

estry techniques, and working with landowners, made him admired and respected by all who knew him.
A portrait, painted by Walter Frobos of Athens, was unveiled, and will be displayed in the Union Camp Building at the Rock Eagle 4H Center. The Portrait was unveiled by Dorsey's two sons, C. Dorsey Dyer, Jr. and Cooper R. Dyer. Accepting the portrait for Rock Eagle was Dr. Tommy L. Walton, State 4H Leader.
The eulogy was delivered by Charles R. O'Kelly, assistant director, Cooperative Extension Service. A rememberance was given by Harold Joiner, executive director, Georgia Forestry Association.
It was announced that two granite benches will be installed in Dyer's memory at the Union Camp Building.
Presiding over the ceremonies was L.W. Eberhardt, Jr., director, Cooperative Extension Service.
Among those attending the ceremonies were Mrs. Martha H. Dyer, Savannah, Dyer's mother; his wife, Ethel Lee, Athens; his twin brother, J. David Dyer, Sparta; and two sons, Dorsey, Jr. and Cooper.

New offices have been erected in six Georgia Forestry Commission Areas representing 24 counties.
The new faci lities were erected at an average cost of approximately $6,000 each, announced Ray Shirl!lY. Forestry Commission director. Shirley said that the modern offices replaced old buildings that were in bad need of repair and could no longer meet space requirements.
The six office structures, involving 8.400 square feet each, were designed by the Forestry Commission and erected by local Area and Forestry Unit personnel. The low construction costs are attributed to the precutting of the outside and inside wall framing, rafters, weather board and floor joists at the Georgia Forestry Center near Macon.
In addition to the six offices, there are two baths and a storage room. The offices are paneled and carpeted. The area forester, unit ranger, project forester and administration and reception occupy the offices.
The offices are located at Bainbridge, Blakley,, Columbus, Homerville, Mount Vernon and Perry. 12

Ne~ Offices Built

The Bainbridge Area encompasses three counties, Decatur, Grady and Seminole.
The Blakley Area involves Calhoun, Clay, Early and Miller Counties.
Chattahoochee, Harris, l')llarion, Muscogee and Talbot Counties make up the Columbus Area.

The Homerville Area consists of Atkinson , Clinch and Echols Counties.
Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen and Wheeler Counties are in the Mount Vernon Area .
The five counties in the Perry Area are Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Peach and Pulaski.

Forest Protection Funds Anticipated

Legislation is before the United States House and Senate that will net Georgia an increase of approximately $115,000 in Federal forest protection funds. The last increase in Federal funds was in 1967.
The announcement was made jointly by Senators Herman Talmadge and David H. Gambrell who are sponsoring the increase in appropriations. Along with Senators Talmadge and Gambrell, Jack Flynt, Jr., Georgia's Sixth District Congressman is playing a major role in seeking approval of the increase as a member of the committee considering the House request.
Other Georgia Congressmen giving their support are G. Elliott Hagan, First District; Dawson Mathis, Second District; Jack T. Brinkley, Third District;

Ben B. Blackburn, Fourth District; Fletcher Thompson, Fifth District; John W. Davis, Seventh District; W.S. Stuckey,
Jr., Eighth District; Philip M. Landrum, Ninth District; and Robert G. Stephens, Jr., Tenth District.
The legislation is being pushed for passage through the National Association of State Foresters. Ray Shirley, director, Georgia Forestry Commission, is a member of the Association 's legislative committee.
Senator Talmadge pointed out that Georgia's proposed allotment is the largest of the anticipated $3,527,000 increase to all States. The increase would bring the total forest protection funds to $19,996,000.
Each State's share is prorated on the basis of privately-owned forest land,

Talmadge added. The Georgia Forestry Commission protects 24,066,400 State and privately-owned forest acres. This is the largest forest area being protected by any State.
Shirley cited the appropriation as invaluable in meeting the rising costs of forest fire protection, declining revenue and the impetus on ecology. The funds, if approved, will be made available for the 1972 fiscal year beginning July 1.
Cooperative federal funds for Georgia amounted to $662,026 in 1971 . The increased appropriation will bring this figure to approximately $777,026, Shirley stated.
Georgia is indebted to its congressional delegation for the time and effort given in the interest of forestry which is so vital to the State's economy.

Goals For Georgia
Shirley Heads Forestry Sub- Committee

Governor Jimmy Carter has announced the selection of a blue ribbon group of Georgia conservationists to help recommend State action during the Carter administration to protect and enhance the environment.
" I am gratified that these outstanding citizens of ou r State have agreed to devote their volunteer efforts toward making Georgia a better place for all of us to live," Carter said . The Georgia Governor has made environmental concerns an area of major emphasis in State government.
Ray Shirley, director, Georgia Forest ry Com m issi on has been named to chair a sub-commit tee o n Forest ry in the Goals for Georgia program by Governor Carter. The sub-comm ittee will function with three others under t he committee on Food-Fiber-Mineral Environment under the leadersh ip of Dr. Gene Younts of the Youth Development Center.
The program purposes included iden-

Ray Shirley

tifying problems and determine solutions to alleviate them ; set priorities among the most important issues to be solved ; establish goals for the next biennium; and develop realistic programs to reach th~ desired goals.
Shirley said that he has obtained a good cross section of the people who own forest land , and are affected the most by problems relating to forests to serve on the sub-committee. They will be participating in meeting over the State in the Goals for Georgia program.
Forestry items being covered include forest taxation, timber markets, timber stand improvement and reforestation and site preparation.
Others are technical assistance to small forest landowners, forest protect ion, forest education and inventory of forest resources.
Urban and environmental forestry, forest ut ilization , forest genetics and research complete the list.
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LETTERS
EDUCATION
I am writing to thank you for the services of the forestry education people who did such a fine job in our recent Environmental Education Institute held for school teachers here and at Shorter College. I am enclosing a copy of the evaluation made by the teacher participants which will be the best indication of the outstanding performance of your people. As you know, Mr. Place and Mr. Craven have worked with us for several years in this capacity and have been most influential in making this program a success. Thank you again for the help of your personnel.
Clyde Connell Head, Biology Dept. Valdosta State College
I want to thank you for again this year furnishing us a staff member for the Georgia Boys State program. We are fortunate that you again saw fit to allow John Butler to attend. John has been with us for several years and does an outstanding job. His every action during the week reflected the greatest credit to himself and to your department.
George Osborne Department Adjutant The American Legion
Thanks a million for the excellent presentation you gave to our group of vocational agriculture teachers during our forestry clinic on July 8.
Please convey to Mr. Ollie Knott, Jr. our thanks for the fine work he did on the film.
B. M. "Chick" Dillard Area Forester Agricultural Education State Department of
Education
TOUR
On behalf of "Team 6, Sweden", I wish to express our sincere thanks for the arrangements planned by you in a way that made our stay at the Commission most interesting and enjoyable for us.
Our sincere thanks to Messers Paul Butts, W. H. McComb, Jim Wynens, John Mixon and Billy Miles for their very interesting and pleasant discourses and to Mr. Ray Shirley, who permitted us to visit the Commission.
Stig Sjostrom Leader
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On behalf of the second-year Forestry students of the Harry-Georgetown Technical Education Center and myself. Thank you for your cooperation and assistance in making our recent Georgia tour a big success.
You planned a very interesting and educational tour of the forestry complex. Since our trip went so smoothly, we are going to make it an annual affair.
Joe H. Phillips Head Forestry Department
EXHIBITS
Members of the Waycross-Ware County Forest Festival Committee and Chamber of Commerce wish to thank you for your participation in the 1971 Forest Festival. Your exhibit was very well received by the public attending the Festival.
We hope your organization will plan to participate in future Waycress-Ware County Forest Festivals. Your support assures continued Festival success.
Larry L. Calvert Chairman Educational Exhibit
Committee
We deeply appreciate the fine spirit of cooperation the Forestry Commission gave us in sponsoring our successful "Sidewalk Sale" in downtown Rome, May 28 and 29.
It is good to know that friends like you can be counted on in working together for a community promotion event.
Thank you for helping us by participating with your display on East Fourth Avenue.
Fred Warden, Chairman Promotion Planning
Committee Chamber of Commerce
MR. TREE
I am very grateful to you for sharing Mr. Louie Deaton with our television audience here in Columbus and the surrounding area, for he is a very unique and talented man. His "Mr. Tree" idea is "where it's at" as far as I'm concerned, and I feel that the results are going to be extremely far-reaching when the children he is impressing now grow up! I was totally captivated by his presentation.
You men are accomplishing remarkable things with the great programs and education on forestry you are doing now. I am so pleased to have been able to share such progressive ideas with my audience.
Patsy Avery WTVM Columbus

ICE STORM
I take this opportunity to commend the Morgan-Walton Counties branch of the Georgia Forestry Commission for their courtesy, accomodation, and profess1onal ability.
I own a few acres of timberland in Walton County which received considerable damage due to iceing during late March. I contacted the Commission and requested that this timber acreage be checked and selectively marked for marketing according to recommended timber management practices. The request was handled promptly and thoroughly.
Again, let me congratulate you on the quality personnel in the Walton-Morgan Unit. These men and their organization are a credit not only to the Georgia Forestry Commission, but to their profession and to the area they serve.
Preston Prather Instructor, CDUEP Georgia Center for
Continuing Education
FIRE SUPPRESSION
While working on a commercial campground we are developing in northwest Cobb County a forest fire broke out a few hundred yard~ to the southwest of my development. The fire was reported by someone before my report went in; the local Fire Department responded but decided since there were no houses involved it wasn't within their jurisdiction.
Shortly, your men arrived with a tractor, and proceeded to contain the fire. I observed the men of the Forestry Commission from their arrival to their departure and I would like to give them a sincere vote of thanks for a job well done; they were professional, efficient and really did the job.
I just wanted to let you know that, as a Georgia resident and taxpayer, I was proud and pleased to see how well these men performed their jobs.
Forrest L. Smith, Jr. Wilson Real Estate Marietta, Georgia
MEETING
I would like to express my appreciation and also the appreciation of the Soil Conservation Society of America for Mr. Louie Deaton's moderation of the excellent panel at the recent chapter meeting. Based OR reports I received, this was one of the highlights of the session. Deaton's technique of moderating was excellent.
Frank T. Bailey Vice President Georgia Chaoter, SCSA

Logging The Foresters

Service Awards
25 YEARS

Leard received a camera, plaque and scholarship to the college of his choice in the University of Georgia system.

Therman M. Strickland.... Ranger Augusta, Ga. Jan. 1, 1971
20 YEARS

servation photo contest. Charles B. Place, Jr., Chapter sec.-treas., won first place in the 2X2 inch color slide story series entitled "A Family Affair". The slides were taken at Bullsluice on the Chattooga River in Northeast Georgia. Place was presented an award at the President's luncheon during the SCSA's Columbus, Ohio convention.

George Bower................. Aircraft Pilot Gainesville, Ga. Feb. I, 1971
Thomas L. Holmes... ...... .Ranger Marietta, Ga. May I, 1971
RichardT. Kirkland........ Ranger Waycross, Ga. Oct. 1, 1971
Zelia Wilbanks.... ...... .......Stenographer Gainesville, Ga. Apr. 1, 1971
FOREST FARMER MANUAL. ..The 1971 edition of the Forest Farmer Manual, published by the Forest Farmers Association in Atlanta, is available. The 208 pages of text and illustration offers the first comprehensive coverage of all phases of timber growing in the South, from planting the tree to milling the product, since 1966. The manual costs $7 per copy, and is available from the Forest Farmers Asso., Suite 650, 1375 Peachtree Street, N. E., Atlanta, Ga. 30309.

Fred C. Gragg, kneeling, vice president, International Paper Co., completes the planting of the company's one millionth acre of planted pine trees in the South. Assisting are Darwin E. Fender, center, chief forester, IP's Southern Kraft Division Woodlands Department, and R.M. Nonnemacher, manager, IP's Southlands Experiment Forest near Bainbridge.
HONOR ...The Georgia Chapter, Soil Conservation Society of America, received recognition in the Society's con-

Miss Richmond County Forestry, Susan Little, and "Smokey Bear" took part in ceremonies recognizing Georgia's champion red cedar tree. The program was cooperatively sponsored by the AugustaRichmond County Beautification Conservation Club and The Environs Co. which is the site of the tree. Mrs. Herbert W. Youngblood is president of the B-C Club, and Guy C. Crain heads The Environs Co.

AWARDS...The 1971 Forest Farmer award went to Henry J. Malsberger. He retired as general manager of the South ern Pulpwood Conservation Association in 1968 after 23 years of service.. .ERNI E BAGLEY, a junior at Nicholls High School is the 1971 winner in Union Camp Corp. FFA Forestry Home Project program. For his winning effort Union Camp presented him a check for $150. Bagley is the son of Mrs. Edna C. Bagley of Route 1, Millwood .. .TI M LEARD, Lavonia, 12th grade Franklin Co. High School student, placed first at the 1Oth Natural Resources Conservation Workshop at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton, announced Sam Dunaway, Workshop director.

The Fulton County Forestry Unit's conservation float won first place in the WSB- TV "Salute to America" parade held in Atlanta. Louie Deaton, Atlanta Metro Forester, designed the float which featured "Mr. Tree", a creation of Deaton. The green float, accented by a red, white and blue banner running through the center, was construct-
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Georgia FORESTRY
Septeber, 1971
Smokey Bear
Illustrator Retires
The man who is credited with fostering the idea of Smokey Bear, in the early 1940's, has retired.
Harry L. Rosso//, supervisor-illustrator, Region Eight, U.S. Forest Service, Atlanta, in his 34 years of service has used Smokey Bear in hundreds of publications and at least 1,000 newspaper fillers.
Having been closely associated with the Smokey Bear Program since its inception in 1944, Rosso// has played a major role in the accomplishments of the '~Smokey" program which has been estimated saving the nation $15 billion in forest fire damage.
In addition to "Smokey", Rosso// has coordinated huge forest conservation exhibits in Georgia, North Carolina and Oklahoma. The Georgia exhibit filled a space of 16,500 square feet. Other conservation exhibits, built under his direction, are used each year in smaller fairs across the South from Virginia to Texas.
Rosso//, as art supervisor, was responsible for the layout of all publications for Region Eight. These include conservation brochures, maps of camping areas, annual reports and special reports.
He frequently appeared at youth conservation camps and on TV presenting a chalk talk on "Smokey" and fire prevention. The chalk talks were accompanied by a musical show; the trumpet being another of his talents.
This man of many talents was literally a one man forest fire prevention force. Rossoll's dynamic personality and talent combined to make him one of the South's and nation's top conservation spokesmen.

SECOND-CLASS POST AGE PAID AT DRY BRANCH, GA.