Georgia forestry, Vol. 25, no. 4 (Dec. 1972)

Georgia
FORESTRY

Georgia Forestry

Dec. 1972

No.4

Vol. 25

Jimmy Carter - Governor A. Ray Shirley - Director

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

Alexander Sessoms,

Cogdell

chairman

W. George Beasley

Lavonia

Hugh M. Dixon

Vidalia

M. E. Garrison

Homer

L H. Morgan

Eastman

STAFF

Frank E. Craven - Editor Thomas R. Fontaine, Jr.- Assoc. Editor Thomas B. Hall -Artist

DISTRICT OFFICES GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION
COOSA VALLEY DISTRICT P. 0. Box Z, Mount Berry 30149
NORTH GEORGIA DISTRICT Route 5, Box 83, Canton 30114
ATLANTA DISTRICT '!Hunter St., S.W., Room 545, Atlanta 30334
CHATTAHOOCHEE FLINT P. 0. Box 1080, Newnan 30263
MCINTOSH TRAIL Route 3, Box 391 F, Griffin 31720
LOWER CHATTAHOOCHEE DISTRICT 6250 Warm Springs Road, Columbus 31904
MIDDLE FLINT DISTRICT P. 0 . Box 1369, Americus 31730
COASTAL PLAIN DISTRICT Route 2, Ashburn 31714
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA DISTRICT Route 2, Box 215, Camilla 31730
GEORGIA SOUTHERN DISTRICT Route 2, Statesboro 30458
COASTAL DISTRICT P. 0. Box 113, Midway 31320
SLASH PINE DISTRICT Route 2, Box 127B, Waycross 31501
CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER DISTRICT Route 2, Box 266, Washington 30673
GEORGIA MOUNTAINS P. 0 . Box 293, Oakwood 30566
NORTHEAST GEORGIA DISTRICT 650 College Station Road, Athens 30601
HEART OF GEORGIA DISTRICT P. 0. Box 96, McRae 31055
MIDDLE GEORGIA DISTRICT Columbus Road, Route 8, Macon 31206
OCONEE DISTRICT P. 0. Box 881, Milledgeville 31061
Georgia Forestry is published quarterly by the Georgia Forestry Commission, Box 819, Ma con, Ga. 31202. The Georgia Forestry mailing address is Rt. 1, Box 85, Dry Branch, Ga. 31020.
Second class postage paid at Dry Branch, Ga.

CONTENTS
National Boy Scout Tree Farm Day ..... .......... ......... .. ...... ....... ...... ... ... ... ...... ... .. .. ....... .3 Nature Trail Outdoor Lab ........ .. .... ... .... ...... ....... ....... .. .... .......... ........ .. .... .. .... .. ...... .. A-5 Forestry Conference for Urban Owners of Forest Land ...... .... .... ... ..... .. ...... .... .. ...... ...B Wood Harvesting Classroom Style...... ... ........ ..... .... .. ..... .. .............. .. ... ...... .. .... ..... ... ... ..7 Air Tanker Operations Upgraded .. .. .... ........ ........ .. .................... .. ...... ..........................8 Forest Survey Complete.... .. .. .. .. .. .... ... ..... .... ... .... ... .......... ....... .. .. ... ..... .. ... ... .......... ......9 Forestry Faces and Places.. .. .. .. .. ..... .. .. .. .... .......... .... ... ........... .. ..... .. .. ... .. .. ...... ..... ..10-11 Slash and Loblolly Pine Host Fusiform Rust ... ... .. ...... ...... .. .... .......... ... ..... ...... ... .. 12-13 Logging the Foresters.... ........ .. .. ... ... .. ... ...... .. .. .... .... .. .... ... .. .... ........ .... ....... ........... 14-15 I
Cruising The News
Our Life-Giving Trees
Man has always loved trees. Pioneers coming from the wooded East to the rich but monoto nous prairie missed trees and their greenery.
Although man has always loved trees he has never hesitated to use them for his own needs. Fortunately this has always been a renewable source and our enlightened forestry today empha sizes reforestation and conservation .
Still, it has only been in recent times that we have come to realize that not only the quality of life depends on trees but that life itself may depend on them .
Consider these facts : For every pound of wood produced in a forest, 1.83 pounds of carbon dioxide are remov-
ed from the air and 1.34 pounds of oxygen are returned . An acre of growing trees has the capability to scrub clean the air pollution generated by
eight automobiles in 12 hours of steady running- though with some damage to the trees. The same acres can also absorb the carbon dioxide produced by 50 automobiles in the same period .
One tree growing in the concrete jungle of the city can generate as much cooling effect as five room air conditioners as it evaporates 100 gallons of water, with no breakdowns because of an electrical " brown-out".
One historian has speculated that before the white man began hacking away at the forests of this country, a squirrel could have traveled from the Atlantic to the Mississippi without ever touching the ground .
We are doing a pretty good job conserving our forests despite the rapid industrialization and growing demands for forest products.
Our own state of Georgia remains an important forestry state . And it may come as a surprise that the states of Maine and New Hampshire are still more than 80 percent forested .
But our wise use of forest lands must continue . We will need all of our resources in the years ahead. That's why it's still a good idea to plant a tree and encourage your children to do so.
(From the Waycross Journal Herald)
Save The Trees
A report that the Wayne County Forest Ranger says that we have 384,000 acres of trees in Wayne County . This seems to be a lot of trees. So, why then am I writing about the lack of trees?
Next time you are in Jesup take a look around . Or in Odum, or Screven, or anywhere we have a cluster of buildings in the county .
Now, where are the trees? They are gone. In our rush to build more and better buildings and roads and parking lots we are cutting down too many trees.
Sure, trees get in the way sometime. But it seems that the first thing-we do when we undertake to erect a building, etc. is to clear the land completely . After we get through building, we come back and plant saplings around here and there. Look at the recently planted trees along Che rry Street. Do you remember the huge trees that used to grow along the street? Where are they now?
Trees provide buffers for noise and heat, not to mention their aesthetic qualities. Cities that have taken care to leave as many trees as possible along their streets stand out in the memory of those who have visited there . Many cities provide pocket parks scattered throughout the business districts. Atlanta's trees even have a guardian who requires developers to replace what trees are necessarily removed .
The next time we think of development, let's adapt the project to the trees; not the trees to to the project . Remember a building, parking lot or road can be completed in a few weeks; trees take a lifetime.
(From the Wayne County Press)

National Boy Scout Tree Farm
Day
2,952
Forest Acres Certified In Georgia

by America's forest industries through the American Forest lnstitute,Washington, D.C. It is administered in the South by the Southern Forest Institute, Atlanta .
In Georgia there are 2,127 certified tree farmers who own more than 8,200,312 forest acres. Nationally, there are 75 million forest acres, managed by 31,000 private landowners, in the program .
Crown pointed out that "thP. Boy Scout-owned property, recognized as an official Tree Farm, is growing repeated crops of wood for our nation's future needs, providing improved wildlife habitat, protecting our watersheds, improving the quality of the environment and providing recreational and educational opportunities for every Boy Scout".
Forestry and Forest Management are specific subjects for current merit badges in the Boy Scouts of America Merit Achievement Program. Wildlife Management, Conservation of Natural Resources, Nature Study and other scout merit badges reward accomplishments of Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Explorer Scouts in learning about forests and the forest environment. BSA campgrounds and other scout properties provide

scouts with opportun1t1es to practice their forestry skills.
To qualify for the American Tree Farm System, forest land must be privately owned; managed for the growth and harvest of repeated crops of timber; and protected from the threat of wildfire, insect and disease damage and destructive grazing. Tree Farm management plans should include provisions for regeneration of new trees.
Crown added that up-to -date forest management assistance and advice is often available to certified Tree Farmers either free or at moderate cost from professional foresters from industry, state forestry commissions and associations, federal and state agriculture agen ci'es and consulting foresters.
The Georgia Tree Farm chairman commended the BSA for outstanding efforts in their SOAR (Save Our American Resources) conservation program to provide the maximum benefits for the most people.
"By joining the American Tree Farm System, the scouts and scout advisors are sharing the conservation achievements of Tree Farmers throughout the nation who are helping meet our future demands for wood," Crown noted.

The National Boy Scout Tree Farm Day resulted in 2,952 forest acres being certified as Tree Farms in Georgia . There were nine Boy Scout properties inspected and certified, according to W. L. "Bud" Crown, chairman, Georgia Tree Farm Committee.
The properties included Bert Adams Reservation, Camp Sidney Dew, Camp Benjamin Hawkins and Camp Linwood Hayes .
Others were Camp Pine Lake, Camp Orr, Camp Patten , Camp AI Sihah and Camp Strachan .
The Tree Farm program is sponsored

Camp Patten , near Lakeland, was one of nine Boy Scout properties in Georgia certified as Tree Farms. Participating in the ceremonies were Chubby T. Earnest, Scout executive, Alapaha Area Council; W L. "Bud" Crown, state Tree Farm chairman; and Joe Stephens, district conservationist, Soil Conservation Service, all of Valdosta. W M. Oettmeier, Fargo, long time exponent of forestry, keynoted the local ceremonies.
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Operating on the theory that experience produces more effective learning than being limited to the pages of a book, a new facet has been added to the science curriculum at Bethune Middle School in Folkston .
The sixth and eighth grade science students have opened a nature trail un der the guidance of Mrs. Gladys Glenn, science teacher, and other faculty mem bers.
The "School 0' Woods Nature Trail" is an outdoor laboratory. At intervals along the trail, various learning stations are located where students see first hand the scientific facts of nature . Signs identify the various forms of plant life, and point out evidence of the existance of animal life.
Th!'! learning stations include wild flowers, a bird feeder, animal tracking, dead tree life , a soil station , lichens, mosses, ferns and a "gopher hotel".
Mrs. Glenn pointed out, "It is our belief that students should (1) stimulate a love for and an appreciation of the sciences; (2) develop opportunities to utilize science learnings in real life ex periences ; (3) develop the ability to do
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critical thinking and understand cause and effect; (4) desire to learn more about the needs of all living things, in eluding their own needs; (5) take part in the exciting adventures that lie ahead through field trips, experiments and ob servations; (6) enrich and broaden their living through experiences and ideas of living; (7) use their eyes to see the beauty of all outdoors; (8) train their minds to learn the importance of nature; (9) use their hands to protect soil, water, woods and weed life; (10) be a good example to show others respect and ps:.oper use and enjoyment of our natu ral resources."
Richard Young, principal, Middle School, said the trail is located on lands belonging to the school system, Gilman Paper Co. and E.M. Mizell. The project has three-fourths mile of trail through native and planted foilage, animal habi tat and managed forest areas, Young added.

Richard Young, principal, Mrs. Gladys Glenn, science teacher, and Jonathan Haywood, assistant principal, lead stu dents in trek over nature traii.Photo by Charlton County Herald. Larry W. Thompson, forester, Georgia Fores try Commission, Waycross, checks tree nomenclature with Mrs. Glenn and students. The Charlton County Forestry Unit personnel prepared the firebreaks for the trail.
Haywood examines plant life with stu dents at one of the learning stations on the trail. Photo by Charlton County Herald.
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Forestry Conference
For Urban Owners Of Forest Land

overall value of the wood lot.

The conference included a panel of

Georgia forestry experts who outlined

why scientific forest management makes

good dollars and sense, and how wood-

land owners can obtain professional as-

sistance in increasing the productivity

of their woodlands.

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The panelists and topics included

Ray Shirley, director, Georgia Forestry

Commission, Macon, "Forestry Assis-

tance Available"; Dan Stewart, area for-

ester, Georgia Kraft Co ., Forsyth, "How '-

to Increase Timber Growth"; and George

D. Walker, extension forester, Coopera-

tive Extension Service, Athens, "Dollars

and Cents of Timber Management".

Bill Chestnutt, Southern Forest In-

stitute, Atlanta, was the panel modera-

tor . Jones welcomed the conferees a-

long with Ed Ruark, director, Georgia

Forest Research Council.

Shirley cited the Macon Urban Land-

owners Conference as an excellent op-

portunity in bringing together wood-

land owners and those who can show

that everyone gains through proper

woodland management.

The conference, sponsored by the

Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce,

was held in cooperation with the Geor-

gia Forestry Commission, Georgia For-

est Research Council and Southern

Forest Institute.

Middle Georgia landowners recently had an opportunity to find out how they can increase the value of their property by proper timber management.
Charlie Jones, president, Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce, said that timberland owners, particularly in the Middle Georgia area, were invited to attend the Urban Landowner Forestry Conference.
"Many urban as well as rural people, who own timberland, are not managing their property for maximum productivity," explained Jones. He added that the conference pointed out ways of increasing timber production on these lands. Growing timber, properly managed, can make a real difference in the
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The Forestry Conference participants were, 1-r, Charlie Jones, Greater Macon Cham ber of Commerce; George D. Walker, Cooperative Extension Service; William F. Chestnutt, Southern Forest Institute; Dan P. Stewart, Georgia Kraft Co.; Ray Shirley, Georgia Forestry Commission; and Ed Ruark, Georgia Forest Research Council.

The. Charlton County High School pulpwood class gets practical experience with the one-quarter scale hydraulic loader. Coordination of foot and hand controls are a must. Built at a cost of $2,800, the loader is shared by 23 Georgia schools.
Wood

Vocational Agriculture students, in 23 Georgia schools, have been afforded training in pulpwood harvesting.
The students enrolled in Vo-Ag received special training in the use of a pulpwood and log loader. The loader is equipped with standard seat and controls. The training unit has a one-fourth scale boom and grapple which responds to the operator as does a full scale loader.
Quarter scale pulpwood pallets, shortwood and a working platform were constructed for use with the loader. _To operate the loader, the students studied standard nomenclature, controls and control exercise, loader operation exercises, specifications and care and maintenance of the scale model.
The training loader is 6'5" high, 4'2%" in length, 2'2%" wide and weighs 550 pounds. The boom and grapple rotation is 180 degrees.
In addition to this new innovation, the students r.eceive training in fire control and forest management: which includes tree planting, insects and disease and selective cutting.

Harvesting

Classroom

Style

Gene Carswell, left, area forester, Vocational Agricultural Department, and Bill Tinsley, right, Vo-Ag teacher, Clinch County High School, instruct the students on the loader operational procedures. The program gives the student a minimum of two hours experience in the operation of the equipment used in pulpwood production.
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Air Tanker Operations Upgraded

Air Tanker Bases

The range of operations illustrated is a 75 mile radius of the bases.

The Georgia Forestry Commission has upgraded its air tanker operations by obtaining two operational A-26 aircraft through the federal excess property program. The planes cost the state $10,000 each. This included installing tanks and putting the planes in operation.
These bombers replace two TBMs which the Forestry Commission had operated since 1958. They were obsolete and could not be maintained as air tankers.
Reliability, greater range and tank capacity are the major advantages of the A-26 bombers. The twin engine planes were rebuilt in the late 1960s provid ing a more reliable and safer aircraft.
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The A-26s are capable of responding to a wildfire call in a 135 mile radius within 40 minutes. The TBM required 40 minutes for a 40.m~:l.e radius.
The greater range has enabled the Forestry Commission to reduce its bases from 14 to four and cut down on maintenance operations. The bases are located at Glencove, Macon, Moultrie and Rome. Under normal circumstances, the planes will be operated within a 75 mile radius of the bases. Response time in these areas is estimated at 25 minutes or less.
One additiona l bomber was obtained for spare parts.

Field Work

Forest Survey Complete

The field work for the fourth survey of Georgia's timber resources is com plete according to the November report of Nolan Snyder, field supervisor for the survey .
Snyder, in completing his final field report, said that the field work was com pleted approximately seven months ahead of schedule . Snyder attributed the early completion date to the excellent cooperation of the Georgia Forestry Commission and a ten percent reduction in the anticipated forest plots to be surveyed .
The field force used to complete the forest survey consisted of 12 men em ployed by the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Forest Service, Asheville, N . C. In addition, the Georgia Forestry Commission contributed county personnel that accounted for more than 7,800 man hours.
The statewide survey required visiting and tabulating conditions at 6,100 forest plots. The reduction from 6,796 plots was due to acreage losses in the southwestern and southeastern sections .
Snyder added that the preIiminary report for the northern piedmont, Unit Four, should be available during the month of December. The preliminary report for the mountains and foothills section is slated for completion by March 1973. The final state report is ex pected by November 1973.
The forest survey was conducted by the Southeastern Forest Experiment Sta tion, Joe P. McClure, project leader.

Georgia Forest Survey
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GILLIS APPOINTED

Thurman Gillis, timber grower and farmer, Douglas, has been appointed to serve on the U . S. Department of Agri culture's advisory committee on State and Private Forestry .
Earl L. Butz, secretary, USDA, in making the announcement, said that the committee will advise the Department and the Forest Service on major matters relating to the protection, management and development of the nation's nonfederal forest land and resources .
Dr. Thomas K. Cowden, assistant, secretary, Rural Development and Con servation, is chairman of the committee .

John McGuire, chief, USFS, is the vice chairman. The committee is composed of 15 members national ly.
Gillis is commissioner of the Slash Pine Area Planning and Development Commission, president of the Coffee County Young Farmers Association and serving on the board of directors of the Coffee County Farm Bureau and Mental Health Association. He is past national director of the U. S. Jaycees and past president of the Coffee County Farm Bureau, Jaycees and Mental Health Association .
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~Dr. Benton H. Box, e.... .ension special ist and forestry project leader, Louisiana State University Cooperative Extension Service, Baton Rouge, La ., has been named executive vice-president of the Southern Forest Institute, A t lant a, Ga ., according to Fred C. Gragg, SF I president . ....There are 70,100 forest acres in Bleck ley County . This represents 50 percent of the land area.
More than 68 percent of the forest area is privately owned . Industry-owned forest acreage is approximately 31 percent. The forest acreage has growing

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.,_, BLECKLEY

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COUNTY/

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volume of 236 .7 million board feet of

sawtimber and approximately 1.3 mil-

lion cords of pulpwood. The annual cut

is 5.8 million board feet of sawtimber

and 19,125 cords of pu Ipwood.

There were 24,180 cords of round

pulpwood produced in the county in

1971. The highest production, 25,513

cords, occurred in 1970. Since 1946,

production has totaled 251 ,286 cords of

round pu Ipwood.

There are eight wood -using industries

in Bleckley County employing more

than 100 people with an annual payroll

in excess of $350,000. The products

produced by the industries include air

and kiln dried lumber, green lumber,

chips, pulpwood, crossties and shavings.

Forestry Faces
.....Howard M. Sanders has joined Interstate Paper Corp ., Riceboro, as wood superintendent for an eight county coastal area of Georgia and South Carolina.
He succeeds Max C. Webb who resigned to become president and general manager of Mitchell Lumber Company of Pembroke.
Sanders is responsible for Interstate's wood procurement and reforestation activities in the area.
The area counties include Effingham, Bryan, Chatham, Bulloch, Jenkins and Screven in Georgia and Jasper and Hampton in South Carolina .

.....The annual Southern Farm Show was officially "sawed " open by, 1-r, Vernon Miller, Birmingham, Ala., editor , The Progressive Farmer; Dot Meadows, Cochran , Miss Cotton; Holly Jones, Metter, Miss Georgia Forestry; Bob Zimmerman, president, Southern Farm Show, Charlotte, N. C.; and Tommy Irvin, Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture, Atlanta . The three day show attracted thousands of farmers, farm dealers and agri-business leaders from across the South who came to view the latest in farm equipment.
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..... Haynes G. Evans, Jr . of Commerce has won one of two $1,600 scholarships sponsored by St. Regis Paper Co. for his junior and senior years at the University of Georgia School of Forest Resources. Dewayne Hull of Dekalb, Miss. is the other recipient.
M.G. Rawls, manager, Southern Tim berlands Division, in making the announcement, said that Evans was the fourth consecutive University of Georgia student to win the scholarship.
Rawls added that Evans was selected by a panel composed of the state foresters of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama, John M . Bethea, Ray Shirley, Billy Gaddis and C. W. Moody, re spectively .

And Places

....Officers of the Georgia Environmental Education Council formulate plans for the 1973 Georgia Environmental Education Institutes. The officers are, 1-r, Charles B. Place, Jr., forest education assistant, Georgia Forestry Commission, treasurer; George D. Walker, forester, Georgia Extension Service, chairman; George Sturgis, science consultant, Department of Education, chairman elect; and Miss Frances Huntress, forester, U. S. Forest Service, secretary.

Peterson

.....Steve Sandfort (c). forester, Georgia Forestry Commission, discusses urban forestry with Dr. Earl De Brunner (I). assistant professor of forestry, Auburn University School of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station, and Bob Sharp, AU forestry student, Panama City, Fla. Sandfort spoke to the AU Forestry Convocation on "Urban Forestry and Why it's Needed" .

Ketcham
.... R. Max Peterson is the new regional forester for the 13-state Southern Region of the U.S. Forest Service, Atlanta .
John McGuire, chief, USFS, in making the announcement, said Peterson is responsible for the administration and management of 33 national forests, en compassing nearly 12-million acres of forests and grasslands.
Peterson succeeds T. A. Schlapfer who was recently transferred to Portland, Ore . to head up national forest activities in the Pacific Northwest .
David E. Ketcham succeeds Peterson as deputy regional forester. Ketcham has been director, Division of Forest Pest Control, State and Private Forestry, Washington .
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FUSIFORM RUST SURVEY - 1971

SLASH AND BLOLLY PINE HOST FUSIFORM RUST

west and north -south. The sample trees within the plantations were tabbed healthy, or having a stem canker, branch canker, stem and branch cankers or killed by fusiform rust disease.
The sampling involved 349 slash pine and 182 loblolly pine plantations.
The report indicated that stands with 50 percent or less infection can be successfully managed for pulpwood, lumber and pole products . Where infection is greater than 50 percent consideration should be given to planting tree seedlings that show resistance to fusiform rust.
Georgia Forestry Commission foresters collected the field data. The data was sent to the U.S. Forest Service, Region Eight, Atlanta, for analysis by the Environmental Protection and Improvement Unit, State and Private Forestry.
The survey report was prepared by the late Elmer R. Roth, staff pathologist, State and Private Forestry, USFS, and W. H. McComb, Research and Training Analyst, Georgia Forestry Commission.

FUSIFORM RUST SURVEY - 1971

LEGEND - SLASH PINE

f).l;;~~ - 0 to 25 Percent Infection

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- 26 to 50 Percent Infection

1111111111 - 51 to 75 Percent Infection
Ifill - 76+ Percent Infection

- No Slash Sampled

A fusiform rust survey of Georgia has been completed by Georgia Forestry Commission and the U. S. Forest Service.
The highest rates of infection recorded in the survey were 100 percent for loblolly pine in Heard County and 97 percent for slash pine in Butts ~ounty.
The average range of infection intensity was very similar in both slash pine, 50-72 percent, and loblolly pine, 53-64 percent. The maps indicate progressively more infection from north to south for loblolly pine . The opposite is true for slash pine with the progression from south to north.
The absence of a species in a county does not mean that the species is absent from the area, but that it was not present in the age class required for the survey .
Plantations within an 8-12 year age range, located at or near the intersection of the grid lines, were surveyed. The state was grided at 10 mile intervals, east-

LEGEND - LOBLOLLY PINE
l~~] - 0 to 25 Percent Infection 111111111 - 26 to 50 Percent Infection
R - 51 to 75 Percent Infection

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- 76+ Percent Infection

0 - No Loblolly Sampled

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LETTERS
EDUCATION
We in our class wanted you to know how much we enjoyed "Smokey's" visit to our kindergarten last week. We look forward to his visit every year.
We also enjoyed the film and Mr. Terry Price's comments.

TOURS
It was an eye-opening experience for my class and me to see some of the things being done in forestry in our area. I must confess that I had no idea that this quality of work was being done so close to home .
I was especially impressed with the outstand ing manner in which Mr. Charles Place conducted our tour. Our visit of the related facilities was , without doubt, the most impressive, informative and well conducted of any in our field trip program.

Thank you very much for being our friends and helpers in our beautiful world.
Mrs. V . G. Blakeney and 28 Children First Baptist Kindergarten Smyrna, Ga.

Robert E. Taylor Instructor Mercer University
Thanks to the Floyd County Forestry Unit for letting us tour their facilities. Our children enjoyed it very much .

On behalf of the State Department of Vocational Education in Agriculture, our thanks to Mr. Louie Deaton for assistance rendered to our forestry program in vocational agriculture. I personally appreciate the extra effort he gave in being prepared and having avai lable the quality and quanity of resource material for the group.
B. M . Dillard Forestry Consultant Agricultural Education
Thanks to Mr. Dean Haddock for his help in making the library story hour so interesting. The children enjoyed the film and bookmarks, and were delighted to see "Smokey's helper".
Miss Brenda Jones Toccoa, Ga.
SUPPRESSION
I would like to commend the efforts of Mr. Omer Merritt and his Polk County forestry crew in helping bring a recent hay barn fire under control.
The personnel not only furnished a pickup truck with water tank and hose, but secured a 600 gallon truck and two -man crew from the town of Aragon . One of his men also arranged for us to pick up a quanity of foam from the city of Cedartown.
Oil G. Barnett Cedartown, Ga .

The children had such a good time that they are sending pictures to let you know what they learned about fire prevention .
Mrs. Mina Millsaps Acting Director New Morning Day Care
Cen t e r Rome , Ga .
PARADE
The Waycross-Ware County Forest Festival and Chamber of Commerce takes this opportunity to thank you for your participation in the 1972 Forest Festival
Your support assures continued Festival success .
Larry A. Calvert, Chairman Educational & Commercial
Exhibit Committee, Waycross-Ware County Forest Festival
appreciate your participation in our Tifton Centennial Parade. Without your fine entry in this parade we would not have had the success that we attained .
Very pleased that you won first place in the Business Non-Professional category .
R. R . Buckely Parade Chairman Tifton Centennial Corp. Tifton, Ga.

Logging The
IN MEMORIAM ... Eimer R. Roth was a retired U. S. Forest Service staff pathologist in environmental protection and improvement for the Southeastern area at the time of his death . He began a study of pollution damage on trees and plants 25 years ago in the Appalachian Mountains and had recently confined his private research to forestry genetics as it pertains to disease resistant trees. Roth had spent the last 13 years of his 42 years in forestry work in association with the state of Georgia and private forestry in the control of pests in Atlan ta . His most recent work was with the Georgia Forestry Comm ission in the metro forestry program in Atlanta.
APPOINTMENTS ...Dr . THOMAS C. NELSON has been named the deputy chief in charge of State and Private Forestry , U. S. Forest Service. He is the past deputy chief for Programs and Legislation ...JOHN W. CHAFFIN is the new head of the Cooperative Forest Fire Management program for the South eastern area, State and Private Forestry, USFS . He has been serving as forest supervisor, Nicolet National Forest in Wisconsin ...ROBERT L. SCHEER is the associate director, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Asheville, N. C. Scheer comes to the new position from New Orleans, La . where he was assistant director, timber management research, Southern Forest Experiment Station.

FAIR

Thanks to Mr . Vic Parker for his help during

We appreciate the cooperation from your

my recent fire . It is mighty good to have department during the 1972 Georgia State

people like him in our community who are so willing to help in times of trouble .

Fair, and most especially the nice exhibit furnished us. We look forward to having you

E. A. "AI" Davenport, Jr., conservation

..

I shall always be gratefu I. Mrs. Marguerite L. Jackson

with us each year .

B. M . Wade General Manager

forester, Union Camp Corp., Savannah , has joined the company's public rela tions staff, according to W. A. "Bill"

Donov an, Ga .

Georgia State Fair

Binns, manager, Public Relations.

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Foresters ...

Service
Awards
25 YEARS
Thomas B. Clifton .... ..... Ranger Lyons, Ga. Aug. 1, 1972
Ollie L. Knott, Jr...... .... Forest Education Assi stant Macon, Ga. July1,1972

20 YEARS

Fred H. Baker .. .. .......... . Rural Fire Defense Coordinator Macon, Ga. Aug. 4, 1972

Crawford V. Bramlett... Ranger Dalton, Ga . Apr . 1, 1972

James Cromer, Jr.. .. ...... Patrolman Oglethorpe, Ga . Oct. 20, 1972
Ralph L. Hanson .... ...... . Patrolman Douglas, Ga. Nov . 1, 1972
James E. Pinson ...... ...... Ranger Covington , Ga . July 1, 1972

Lynn Anderson, 17, of Stockbridge, is the first contestant for the 1973 Miss Georgia Forestry title. The Miss Henry County Forestry Queen will compete for the title at the Georgia Forestry Association annual meeting on Jekyll Island, June 3 -5. Miss Anderson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Anderson. The current Miss Georgia Forestry is Holly Jones of Metter.

Milton W Rose, chief investigator, Georgia Forestry Commission, Macon, has been elected president of the Georgia Chapter, International Association of Arson Investigators. He succeeds GBI Captain Arthur Hutchins, retired, of Atlanta.

MEETINGS...SOUTHEASTERN Sec

tion, Society of American Foresters, James Bass, ranger, South Fulton -Douglas Forestry Unit, and Louie Deaton, Forester,

Athens, Ga., January 10-12.. .SMOKEY Georgia Forestry Commission, accept the blue ribbon award for their first place

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Bear Workshop, Tallahassee, Fla., Janu- exhibit in the government agency category at the Stay and See Georgia Week display.

ary 9-11...SOUTHERN Forest Institute, The award was presented by Ray Davis, executive vice president, Georgia Chamber

Atlanta, Ga., February 20-21.

of Commerce; and Laura Shouse, Miss Stay and See Georgia.