Georgia forestry, Vol. 3, no. 8 (Aug. 1950)

Georgia Forestry
AUGUST 1950
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Forestry Training Calllps

( f'rO'A th.e Savannah Morning NeTJB)

Georgians are corning more and more
to realize the value of our state's forests, and great strides have been ~de in recent years in conservation measures. Taking the lead in the program is the pulpwood industry itself, which must depend on a ready supply of trees for its operations. The State Forestry Department is also playing an increas1ngly iiJ1)0rtant
role in promoting interest in Geor~ia 's forests and stressing their 11tp>rtance in our economic lives. The job is lar~ely one of public education, for w1thout the support and
co-operation of the public generally, no conservation program will be effective.

in vears to come. A great deal has been accomplished already. Forest fires are not nearly as conmon as they were a few years ago. P.l!ch has been done also to provide an adequate warning system for the detection of fires, and to have men and equipment available to extinguish them.
With a continuation of such farsighted programs as the sUIII!Ier forestry camps for boys, the time is sure to come when large forest fires will be a thing of the past, and Georgia will be green throughout the year.

The Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association, representing the industry in the Southern States, will this summer provide camps where the care and wise use of forest trees will be taught to approximately 750 farm boys from nine states. The pulpwood industry pays the costs of the various camps, while they are administered and instruction is provided by the Forestry Departments of each state.

Here in Georgia the camp will take !"'lace July 30 through August 5 at Franklin Roosevelt State Park near
Chipley. State Forester Guyton De-
TJoach will be in charge of the camp
and the cost will be taken care of by the Union Bag and Paper Corporation the Southern Paperboard Corporation' the Macon Kraft Comoany and th~ Brunswick Pulp and Pape~ Company.

Here, indeed, is a worthy under-

taking, a co-operative effort by

industry and the state promote something that

giosveorfnmvaelnut~

to to

'Joth. This, and similar programs di-

rected toward the conservation and

wise utilization of our forest re-

sources. wi 11 mean much to the South

Organized forest fire protection spreads over the face of Georgia. The outline map shows the progress made in the last year in extending organized fire protection to more than six million additional acres, and bringing the total protected area to 15,981,434 acres.

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August, 1950

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~ Protected Acreage Near 16 Million;

Seven New Counties Beqin Protection

Nearly 16,000,000 acres of Geor~ia Forest laod are now under organized fire protection- more than ever before in the history of the state. Seven additional counties be~an organized protection July 1, bring1ng to 86 the total nunbe r of protected counties and increasing the total protected area to 15,Q~1,434 acres.
Counties in which Forest Protection Units began operation July 1 include DeKalb, Grady, Meriwether, Muscogee, Toombs. Bacon, and Stephens. County Forest Rangers have been employed and Forestry Boards named in five new counties. The newly-protected counties are in forestry districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 9, with much of the newlyprotected acrea~e being concentrated in the timber-r1ch areas of southern and southeastern Georgia.
The new total of protected acres represent an increase of 6,419, 557 acres and 41 counties brought under protection since June 30, 1949, By

the end of the present fiscal year it is expected that four or five additional counties will start organized protection.
\1obile and power fire- fighting vehicles and equipment is being delivered to the new counties. Vehicles being supplied new counties incl tde power wagons, conventional pickup trucks, jeeps and jeep suppression plows, and jeep pickups, w1th each county being outfitted according to the requirements of fire fighting in the individua 1 locality.
County Forest Rangers have been employed and are on duty infivecounties that began protection in July. County Forestry Boards have also been appointed and are functioning in the counties in an advisory and assisting
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foombs Count~ Begins O r~anized forest Protection . ~. R. McComb, l eft , District fore~te:, Georg~a forestry Commi ss ion, Statesboro , and J . Sol Partin, foombs County CO!II!111.Sstoner, stgn budget starti ng organized fire Protection in the cO'Unty .

Paj!e Three

Educational Program

in Fannin, Towns,

Union
Fannin, Towns and Unio~ Coun~ies are the locale for an tnt ens 1 ve, educational program in forest protection and development. t.hat has already begun unde~ the JOtnt auspices of the Georgta Forestry Commission and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Officially termed the 'Joint Project for Fir~ Con~rol', the educational campa1gn wtll serve to demonstrate to the public the ~eed f?r and many benefits of, orga.n1ze.d flre protection, with t~e ~bJ.ectlve of establishing and ma1nta1n1ng Forest Protection Units in the three coun-ties. Organized forest fire protection will be shown to be a sound, well-paying investment, and not merely an expense.
Ollie C. Burtz, Educational Fo~es ter, Georgia Forestry. Commiss~o': will direct the educat1onal actlVlt.ies. Burtz recently successfully completed a similar project in Walker
and Catoosa Counties and ;:>rior to that.time servedas assistantDistrict Forester at Americus. -He is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Forestry. Burtz .has established headquarters and residence at Blairsville.
As the educational project moves through its stages every available means will be utilized to reach the public and enlist the cooperation and active suryport of the citizenry of the area. The protection and fire prevention problems of the individual counties will be analyzed and the best means of solution evolved. 'Public cooperation and SU!Jport will be solicited through civic, social and busin~ss organizations and outs tanding personages. The populace will be shown the large contribution the woodlands make to their welfare at present, with special ern:->hasis being placed upon the rotel1tially much larger contribution of the ~ro tected and properly-managed forest.

Forest owners in southeastern Georgia have been advised to salvage a~ quickly as feasible the tim~r that has been killed or seriously weakened by the recent outbreaks of fires in that area. A special reminder was directed to the landowners in Jeff Davis and Appling Counties, where a record outbreak of fires occurred along railroad rigl-.ts-of-way in June.
The advisory information came from Guyton DeLoach, Director of the Georgia Forestry Commission. DeLoach stated ''that in a number of areas in Southeastern Georgia, qnd particularly in Jeff Davis and Appling Counties, a high percentage of kill and serious damage has been reported as a result of the fires.'' He stressed the fact ''that fires occur ring during the sunmer growing season are often more damaging and result in a higher percentage of kill than do fires occurring in the dormant season, and insect and disease attack is more immediate and severe.'' ''These killed and badly burned trees are highly susceptible to insect and disease atta~k. and must be harvested quickly if any of the original value is to be salvaged,'' said DeLoach.
Nine out of ten forest fires are caused by man I

AuAus t, 1950

Paae Jlbur

Ruark Named Fire Chief;

Other Appointments Listed

The appointment of H. E. Ruark as Chief of Fire Control for the Georgia Forestry Commission has been announ-
ced by Guyton DeLoach, COO'IIlission Director. In this capacity, Ruark will have charge of fire protection throughout the state, and will fill the position left vacant when DeLoach was named director of the Corrmission.

Ruark was formerly Forester-Manager for Carolina Foresters, Inc., con-
sulting foresters and sawmill o~ra tors. He is a graduate of the Un1versity of Georgia School of Forestry and served as an Army Major during World War II. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Methodist Men's Club.
Ruark is a native of Apalachee,
Morgan County, and is married and the !ather of two children. He and his family will make their home in Decatur.

Other recent appointments listed by DeLoach are, as fol. lows:

W. H. Nims, for the.past year Fore}it

Ranger of Morgan County, ~S been

named as an assistant toTenth Dis-

trict Forester James C. Turner at

Washington. Nims principal activi-

ties in his new position will be in

fire protection and education. He is

married and the father of one child.

He and his family will establish

residence in Washington.



James H. Hill, former Assistant

Superintendent of HertyNursery and

recently Acting Super httendent at

Davisboro, has been promoted to the

position of Nurser{ Assistant. In

this capacity, Hil will coordinate

activit1es at the three state nurser-

ies under the direction of L. C. Hart,

Jr., Assistant Commission Director. fUll, a native of Roswell and a Uni-

versity of Georgia Forestry school

f raduate, will have headquarters in tlanta.

Miles S. Koger, for the past two years Decatur County Ranger, has been promoted to the position of an Assist-
ant District Forester of the Second District. In his new capacity, Koger

H. E. RIJARK
will assist District Foreste r H. P. Allen and his principal activities will be in fire protection.
Zach L. Seymour, former Talbot County Forest Ranger, has assumed duties as assistant toFourthDistrict Forester George Lavinder, with head quarters at Newnan. Seymour is married and the father of two children .
John Garnet Davenport has been emplo:yed as Forest Fire Investigator to ass 1St Chief Forest Fire Investigator E. H. Terry. Davenport was a Se rgeant in the Infantry for 18 months. While Davenport helps cover the state investigating forest fires and prose~ cuting fire bu~s, his wife and two children live in Atlanta.
George Morris Calhoun, a native of Waleska, has been appointed Forest Fire lnvesti~ator to ser~ in the Seventh Distr1ct.
Calhoun has served in the past as Deputy Sheriff of Cherokee County, as Marshall for the town of Wales~a. as constable of the t008th G\1 anci on the police force.

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Geo rg i a forestry

As Georgia Forestry goes to press, approximately 70 boys from throughout the northern half of the state are converging on Franklin D. Roosevelt Park near Otipley for the 1950 Georgia Boys Forestry Carq>. The camp wi 11 run July 31 through August 5, and the campers will experience a benificial and highly enjoyable week of forestry instruction and demqpstrations recreation, field trips and entertainment.
Sponsors for this year's camp are the Macon Kraft Cerq>any, Brunswick Pulp and Paper Company, Southern Paperboard Company and Union Bag and Paper Corporation, all of which are member mills of the Southern Pulpwood

Conservation Association. The calll> is dire~te? by the Georgia Forestry Cormu.ss1on.
The carq> will feature learning by
doing on the part of the carq>ers whO
will learn methods of forest fire' con. trol, how best to measure and market ' forest products, tree identification hand and machine methods of plantini seedlings, profitable thinning of forest stands, and the protection of woodlands from insect and disease attack.
Members of the camp staff and speakers scheduled to appear include: Howard ].Doyle, Area Forester, Southern Pulp. '
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fiGHt--to save valuable Ncf)u,ffie County tibedand, Left toright, Ncf)u,ffie County f orest Ranger Reuben Hartin, B. f. Yillard (driving tractor), Ked Usry, and Jaaes C. !urner, District forester, Yashing t on, prepare to plow one of apy firebreaks used to confine and su.pp,.ess a 500-acre fin that raged .in the northern pad of NcJNffie County in late June, !he fierce, fast-.oving fire threatened to engulf sever4l thousand 4Cres of younR forest growth in the CLark Hi B ILll tershed 4f'e4 and only tile
round-the-dock efforts of the firefighters preW1lted such 4 loss. !he tractO'r-and-
plow suppnssion unit pictured w:~s disp4tched to the seeM froa the AtlCJP&t4 he44-
quarters of the Georgia 1onstry Coais.!ion, (Photo by Nc!Nffh County Prognssl

August, 1950
DeLoach Extends Thanks

Pa~e Six

to Commission Personnel and

Supporting Groups

On the occasion of the end of one fiscal year and the start of another, Guyton DeLoach, Director of the Georgia Forestry Commiss~on, has re~ea~ed a statement express1ng apprec1at1on and gratitude for the loyalty, industry and cooperation of the personnel of the Georgia Forestry Commission, and extending thanks for the vital support and cooperation g~ven.by many ~rgani zations and agenc1es 1n advanc1ng the work of the Commission.
DeLoach's statement was addressed to the personnel of the Georgia Forestq Commission and to the Commission's fr1ends, supporters, and co-workers throughout the state, and read as follows:
''We in the Georgia Forestry Commission have just completed another fiscal year of operation. This has been a year of record expansion, with its many accompanying trials and difficulties. At the same time we havebeen almost constantly facedwith conditions which have made the past fire season the worst in ten years here in the state. I believe we can all hold justi liable pride in the fact that the Commission's progress

has gone ahead unimpeded, and that record strides have been made :n the protect ion and development of (:eorgia' s f0rests.
''This progress has been possible through the loyalty, hard work and cooperation of the many individua_Js in the Corrmission, and for this I w1sh to extend my heartfelt thanks and appreciation to each and every one. I would not forget the invaluable aid given the Conunission by many other organizations and agencies throughout the state. The great support given our work by industry, business, the press and radio, and other pu~lic and private agencies has been a v1 tal and essential contribution to the progress that has been realized.
''In conclusion I would 1ike to to express the hope that our forward strides can be sustained, and that we will enjoy the continued an.d increased support and cooperatJon of all."
Very truly yours,
GuytonDeLoach, Director Georgia Forestry Commission

"Keep Green" Signs to be Placed

on Highways
Forest protection is fast becoming a byword on Georgia's highways. The state's civic clubs and Chambers of Conmerce are cooperating with the Georgia Forestry Association in a project to erect green-and-white metal signs throughout the state urging one and all to help ''Keep Geor gia 's Forests Green . A total of 318 attractive signs will be placed on principal roadways in all counties. Almost three hundred signs have already been erected by the Georgia Forestry Commission in protected counties throughout the state, carrying the message ''Help Us Protect Your Forest'', and these together with the KEI!P GREEN signs will present a strong appeal for public support in forest protection.

The new signs are to be erected as
part of the Association's activities directed toward expanding the Keep Georgia Green movement. Keep r~or ~ia Green Conmi ttees are being tormed 1n all counties, with members of the committees being selected from the membership of the civic clubs in each
county. Participating organizations include the oihambers of Conmerce, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club, Civi tan Club, Optimist Clu.b and Exchange Clubs. The prepar.ed s 1gns, together with the posts and other mater ia'l needed, wi 11 be presented to the Keep Green Committees by the Forestry Association, and the signs wi 11 be erected with appropriate
ceremonies.

T. B. Hankinson, Liberty County

Ranger, has been highly complimented

by the Liberty County Herald for the

''fine record'' established by his

unit during the past year. The

Herald stated recently in its lead

editorial that "Mr. Hankinsonand

his personnel are due much praise for

the fine record being made in our

County and deserve the full coopera-

tion of our timber owners. ' ' Some

of the out!; tanding work that has been

done under Mr. Hankinson's super-

vision includes fire suppression and

detection (full time); repair and

maintenance of Unit grounds, equip-

ment and buildings, educational and

4-H Club promotion in forestry, pro-

motio~ and information regarding

forest management; pre-suppression

fire break plowing, in season.''

The editorial stated further that

''there have been thousands of acres

of valuable timber saved from de-

struction by fire due to the alert

work .:>f the unit . . . . . Twelve pine

seedling projects have been under-

taken by Liberty County 4-H boys. As

a result of this splendid training

under two o

f

the the

direc boys

tion of will at

the tend

Raanfgreer~

fores tr:y camp at Warm Springs in

August. '

Ranger T. H. Bullard, Wilkes County, brings out an excellent point in his weekly coh.mn. Bullard tells his readers that most Georgia forest fires are not nearly as large and spectacular as fires in the western states, but nevertheleu they are equally destructive and- often more dangerous. Speakin~ of Geor~ia's fires, Bullard says, 'small fues, yes, but they
.destroy countless little trees that that would provide tomorrow's trees. Most of these fires are started through carelessness and indifference and are so small that no rtotice is taken of them. The landowner cannot afford to be indi~ferent. S~op these fires and timber pl"oduction will double.''

Ranger Randolph Roddenberry, Colquitt County, has stirred up a lot of enthusiasm with his contest to find the biggest tree in his county. The nominations are pouring in andRoddenberry reports he is hearing from a lot of people who never before evidenced an interest in Colquitt's forest resources.
Georgia Chapter,
SAF, To Meet
Georgia foresters will gather August 10 and 11 at the School of Forestry, University of Georgia, at Athens for the 1950 annual meeting of the Georgia Chapter, Southeastern Sect ion, Societ31 of American Foresters. In announcing the forthcoming annual meeting, the Chapter officers stated that the gathering will probably be of greater personal importance to foresters than any meeting ever held in the state. Registration will be on the morning of August 10.
Of top importance on the agenda is the discussion and consideration of the proposed licensing bill for foresters in the State of Geor~ia. An advance copy of the proposed b1ll wi 11 be sent to all Chapter members prior to the meeting date in order that anple consideration can be given to the provision of the bill before the discussions~ begin.
Nominations for Chapter officers for the coming year will be made, and the technical forestry program wi 11 include a number of short, concise papers. The ente(tainment highlight of the session wi 11 be the banquet scheduled for the evening of August 10.

August, 1950
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P. D. Breckenridge of ColUmbus was named president of the Southern Pulpwood Dealers Conservation Association at a meeting of the group July 13 at the Ansley Hotel, Atlanta. Breckenridge succeeds B. E. Pelham of Ellayille.
Other new Association officers named inc 1uded G. Dewey Williams , Augusta, vice-president, and Leo Mooredian, Hapeville, secretarytreasurer.
Judge Ben D. Turner of Mobile, Alabama, told the group in a feature address that 'Conservation of resources is the key to our continued existence, and dec-lared that southern pine tinberland is one of the 'best investments one could have.''

E. Oswald Lightsey, recently elected ~resident of the-Southern Pine Kssoclation, was featured speaker at the vacati9n meeting of the Southeastern Lumbermen's Club, held July 14 and 15 at the General O~~:lethorpe Hotel, Savannah.
E. A. Scott, President, called the meeting to order at 10:30 Friday morning and an informal discussion period followed. Lightsey's address was the feature of the afternoon. A cocktail party, banquet and dance highlighted the evening entertainment.
The sessions were adjourned Saturday afternoon following a Shore Dinner on the hotel grounds.


Pictured above is the new Co~Jta County forest Ranger Headquarters ana. ""'"~utm<:t:: , fro- which Ranger E. P. Eubanks, Jr. is now directing operations of.h~s unit . The structure provides a reception rooa and business office, coaPLete Lt vtng quarters, and sho~Jr faciLities for fire-fighting crews.

Page ~ine

Geo~gia fo~est~y

Forest protect ion and development were among the principal subjects studied at the resource-use workshop helrl June 26-30 at the North Canton School in Cherokee County. The work shop, one of the first of its kind ever held in the state, attracted puhlic school teachers from throughout Cherokee County and other parts of the state, as well as a number of experts and leaders in the various phases of conservation and resourceuse.
Directing the torestry discussions and studies were Oscar C. Battle,
ICJOE BEAVER"

District Forester, Georgia Forestry Commission, Gainesville, Nubert Blalock, Cherokee County Forest Ranger, Lee Evans, Sr., and Elmo Dobson. Miss Reba Burnh2m, Director of Resource Education, University of Georgia, headed the week's sess1on.
The teachers and others in attendance, were instructed in the great value and need for protecting Georgia's greatest natural resource, her forests. The group was also given demonstrations of the use of audiovisual materials in teaching forest conservation.
By Ed Nofziger

Forest Service, U. 8. Department of Agrieulture
"We call him ~re boy' because he's always hot, dry, and windy...

August, 195G

NEW COUNTIES UNDER PROTECTION

ODE TO THE RANGER

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capacity in the operation of the Forest Protection Units. The newlyemployed Co mty Forest Rangers , together with ti-e newly-created Forestry Boards, are:
DeKAI.B- Ranger: Thomas E. Avery. Forestry Board: E. P. McGee, Decatur, S. Earnest Smith, Atlanta, W. Sam S~th, Atlanta, Coy Elliott, Lithonia, and Scott Candler, Decatur.

When the fire is rgging And danger il nigh God and the Ranger Is the only cry.
When the fire is 011t And all-things righted God is forgot ten And the Ranger slighted.
(Arkansas Ranger)

GRADY- Ranger: Horace G. Collier, Jr. Forestry Board: R. E. Strin~er, thomasville,AuldenHawthorne,Calro, E. F. Dollar, Whigham, Carlos COne, Cairo, and J. T. Mayfield, Cairo.
P4ERIWEillm - Ranger: Toombs D. Lewis. Forestry Board: Tom Knight, Woodbury, Crowder Mitcham, Durand, Martin Gibson, Woodbury, Sam Bulloch, Manchester and Claude Harman, Greenville.
Ml.JSCCX;EE-P.anger: HarveyC. Mills. Forestry'Board: M. W. Jenkins, Columbus, Fred H. Schomburg, Columbus, Jake Taff, Columbus; George M. Adams, Columbus, and John Rigdon, Columbus.
STEPHENS - Ranger: L. C. Nix. Forestry Board: William Jones, Toccoa, Horace Crump, Toccoa, Otis Steele, Toccoa, Richard Dean, Martin, and Jones Yow, Eastanollee.

County Forest Rangers in each District are combining a business gettogether with demonstrations of two new fire sUppression plows. The demonstrations 1nclude two pressure units, one a small crawler tractor with a middle-buster plow, and the other a lar~er tractor equipped with a plow deSlgned by Paul W. Groom, Consultant Forester. The hydraulic-controlled equipment is presently in the experimental stage.

BOYS CAMP
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wood Conservation Association; Guyton DeLoach, Director, Georgia Forestry Conmission; J, F. Spiers, Forester, Central of Georgia Railroad; R. D. Helmken, Conservation Forester, Union Bag and Paper Corporation, J. C. Turner, District Forester, Georgia Forestry Conmission; Harry Rossoll, Illustrator, U. S. Forest Service; W. E. Roberts, Sandvik Saw and Tool Company; A. H. Antonie, Management Specialist, Georgia Forestrr Conmission; L. L. Luncl_y, Assistant Dutrict ForesteJ:", and R. E. Davis, Chief, Information and Education, Georgia Forestry Commission.

Your trees can be a crop-just like corn or cotton.

Georgia Forestry
AUGUST 1950

Entered as second-<laas uer at the Post Office, Atlanta, Ga.