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Dec. 1981

No.4

Vol. 33

Geo rge Busbee - Governor A. Ray Sh irl ey - Director

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Jim L. Gillis, Chairman, Soperton
Felton Denney, Carrollton Eley C. Frazer, Ill, Albany Robert Simpson, Ill, Lakeland Patricia B. Robinson, Atlanta
STAFF
Fra nk E. Craven, Editor Howard E. Ben nett, Asso ciate Editor Thomas B. Hall, Arti st
DISTRICT OFFICES
Coosa Vall ey P. 0. Box Z, Mt. Berry 30149 North Geo rgia Rt. 7, Box 83, Canton 30 11 4
Chattahoochee Fli nt P. 0. Box 1080, Newnan 30 263 Mel ntosh Trail Rt. 7, Box 455, Gr iffin 30223
Middle Fl int Rt. 1, Box 23A, Americus 31 709 Coastal Pl ai n Rt. 2, Ashburn 31 714 Southwest Georgia Rt. 2, Box 215, Cami ll a 317 30 Geor gia Southern Rt. 2, St atesboro 30458
Sl as h Pine Rt. 6, Box 167, Waycross 31501 Central Savannah River Rt. 2, Box 266, Washington 30673 Georgia Mou nt ains Rt. 11, Box 37, Gainesville 30501 No rth east Geo rgia Rt. 4. Box 168A, Athens 30605 Heart o f Geo rgi a Rt. 1, Box 46, Helena 31037 Midd le Georgi a Rt. 8, Colu mbus Rd .. Maco n 3 1206 Oconee Hwy . 49, Mill edgeville 3106 1

Georgia Fo res tr y is publis hed qua rt erly by the Georgi a Forestry Co mmission , Rt . 1, Box 18 1. Dr y Branch, Ga. 31020.
Secon d class postage paid at Manc hester. Ga.

Cruising The News

REGION IS NATION'S TIMBER BASKET

"Timber basket." To us, it was an unfamiliar phrase being hung on the Southeast in a publicity release from the Georgia Forestry Commission. Unfamiliar, but true. The Southeast is the best place in the world , we've heard , for growing trees. We grow them faster because of the solid sunshine conditions, because of the abundant water supply , and because, in the last few years, of the management techniques that researchers have given the area. There are " super trees" these days which zool)1 up far faster than their neighbor trees. Why? Because the geneticists have determined that the characteristics of these trees are those

they want all trees to have. So they isolate t he seeds from these trees, plant them , and get unparalleled growth.
Trees in Canada, we' re told , take up to 150 years to grow to maturity. These are a similar type of tree used in making wood pulp , something akin to pine trees, usually from the spruce family.
But the Southeastern pine reaches fu ll maturity within 30 years- as few as 20 years in many places. Some experts have put 22 yea rs as the average age for maturity of trees in Southeast Georgia. That's growing 'em mighty fast.
(From the Gwinnett Daily News)

GEORGIA TREE FARMER PRAISED

Forestry, as every Georgia school child should know, is big business in this state. Each year 540,000 acres of trees are turned into 8 million tons of pulp and 2.5 billion board feet of lumber.
With this in mind, it is obvious that few Georgians are as valuable as our tree farmers.
W. C. Hodges is the model of a modern Georgia tree farmer. His family has owned land

in Bulloch County since the 1700s. And , in addition to growing trees, he keeps a plot for the high school agriculture class and has buil t on another part of his acreage a club house and fishing lake for Boy Scouts, 4H and other groups to enjoy.
So, we congratulate Mr. Hodges, named Georgia's Tree Farmer of the Year.
(From the Augusta Chronicle)

RURAL FIRE DEFENSE APPRECIATED

About three years have elapsed since Crawford County initiated its rural fire protection program. In that time , seven district volunteer fire departments have been established.
In Jones County the volunteer rural fire protection program has grown by leaps and bounds.
Washington County's 15-year-old volunteer program has brought coverage to virtually the entire county.
Laurens County and Pulaski County have excellent volunteer units, to name just a few of Georgia's 159 counties fortunate enough to have volunteer rural fire protection.

The key word is volunteer. The only pay the volunteer fireman receives is the satisfaction of knowing he is providing protection and saving property loss in areas where such protection would not exist without him.
During National Fire Prevention Week, we'd like to say thanks to these volunteers, and also to the Georgia Forestry Commission which has provided 398 Fire Knocker trucks to volunteer departments throughout the state. The services they provide are valuable beyond measure.
(From the Macon Telegraph)

CONTENTS

A Year of Construction .. . .. . .... .

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Georgian Named National Tree Farmer .

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Fire Spotters Receive $1,000 Reward ..

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Governor Appoints New Board Members .

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Demonstrations, Seminar Focus Attention on Value of Biomass .

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Bark Beetle Update .. . ..... . .. ... .

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American FB Films Georgia Forestry ....... .... ...... .

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College, Students Begin Firewood Project .. . .. .

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Improved Mechan ical Tree Harvesters Now In Use .

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Personnel Begin Retirement Years

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Feature Page....... .. . .

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Letters, Logging the Forests

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Awards ... . ......... .

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Georgia Forestry/December 1981

A YEAR OF

CONSTRUCTION

It has been a year of considerable construction at

Commission facilities around the state. Shown are

just seven of the many projects that were started

or completed during the year, with GFC personnel

providing most of the labor. Shown clockwise

are a truck shed, Washington County Unit; unit office, Crisp-Dooly; unit office, Houston; aircraft hanger, Ware;

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A marble stone commemorating the achievements of Milton Hopkins is placed on his farm near Fitzgerald. Left to righ t are Bobby Taylor, president of the Georgia Forestry Association,

Hopkins and Jack Gnann, Chairman of the Georgia Tree Farm C o m m i t t ee.

GEORGIAN WINS NATIONAL TREE FARMER HONORS

Milton (Buddy) Ho pkins, Jr ., of Irwin Count y, who started planting trees as a young boy, has been honored as the National Outstanding Tree Farmer of
198 1.
He was named Georgia Tree Farmer of
the Year in 1980 and later won the title
for the Southeastern Region. In competing with other regional winners across the country, judges in the national competition were impressed with Hopkins' multi-
ple use of his 995 acres of forestland.
Prominent foresters, industrialists and others - including the area press- were on hand recently for the unveiling of a marble marker on the Hopkins farm near Osierfield to proclaim the farmer the national winner. A tour of the farm was also held.
During his boyhood days, he dug young trees from the forest and planted them in his father's yard. When he became a young farmer, he heard that a
large landowner had 5,000 trees left over
from a reforestation operation and the seedlings "were free to anyone who would take them."
Hopkins took the trees and planted them by hand. He has been planting trees ever since.
Tree Farm inspectors at the outset vvere imp ressed wit h the way the farmer
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wisely managed his land . The state awa rd was presented at t he an nual co nve ntion of the Georgia F orest ry Asso ciation on
J ekyll Island in t he summer o f 1980. Th e
award was made by David Mitc h e ll, T ree Farm Chairman.
Jack Gnann, the current Chairman of the Georgia Tree Farm Committee, and Bobby Taylor, president of the Geor gi a Forestry Association, presided at t he recent unveiling ceremony.
About 200 acres of Hopk ins land is planted in 20 to 25 year old pine, w hil e 545 acres are of natural stands. He has
planted Arizona Cypress for Christ mas tree purposes and food strips for dove,

qu ai l a nd oth e r game . Seve ral rows of t rees were planted years ago as wind breaks along farm roads and around fish
ponds. About 500 black walnut trees
ha ve been planted as an experimental pro ject.
Hopk ins view s prescribed burning as an excellent management tool. He said he
burns 200 to 300 acres of forestland each
year to keep ahead of the underbrush.
Th e National Tree Farmer of 1981 is
a graduate of the University of Georgia, w here h e received a degree in zoology and ecology . He also stud ied at Emory U n ive rsity .

The Commissio n extends sympathy to the family of ret ired R a ng e r M. 0. (Red) McMichael of Monticello , w ho d ied recently following a brief illness. He se rv ed
faithfully for 34 years in th e Jaspe r-Jones
County Forestry Unit. A native of J asper Cou nty , the ranger
served in t he U.S. Army during World War II.
The retired ra nger is survived by his wife, Mabel, a son, two daughters, a sister, four brothe rs and six grandchild ren.

Georgia Forestry/December 198 1

NEW DIRECTORY NOW AVAILABLE

A 1981 Directory of Wood Using Industries In Georgia has been compiled by the Commission and is now being distributed.
The directory, an update of a similar publication produced by the Commission in 1978, Iists primary manufacturers, such as sawmills, as well as secondary enterprises, such as furni~ure plants and other industries that use wood.
All companies listed were in the wood manufacturing or wood processing business in early 1981.
The directory, containing 1,396 listings, is prepared as a marketing guide and aid in bringing buyer and seller together where Georgia grown or manufactured forest products are involved.
The utilization report shows that in 1980, Georgia's wood using industries, excluding pulp and paper, processed 2.414 billion board feet of round timber.
Sawmills utilized 2.019 billion board feet an 80 percent increase over 1970. Another 3,081 million board feet were used by the veneer and plywood industry. Treating plants processed 55 million board feet equivalent, mostly pine, and other round timber processors accounted for 33 million board feet.
In photos below, Director Shirley presents Commission Commendations Awards to, left to right, Glenn Ar.thony, Executive Director of the Georgia Forestry Association; Doris Martin of WMAZ-TV, Macon; State Representative L. L. (Pete) Phillips, Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee. The three were honored for their contribution to the promotion of better forestry in Georgia.

Cecil Summerville, left , and Mike W1~liams, right, both of Haralson County, each receive a check for $500 from Glenn Anthony, Executive Director of the Georgia Forestry Association.
CONVICTION OF FOREST FIRE SETTERS

BRINGS $1,000 AWARD FOR SPOTTERS

Two Haralson County Volunteer Firemen are the recipients of the first cash award given by the Georgia Forestry Association for the apprehension and conviction of persons setting a forest fire.
Cecil Summerville and Mike Williams were each presented a check in the amount of $500.00 by Glenn Anthony, Executive Director, Georgia Forestry Association, Atlanta.
According to the two volunteers, they responded to a fire call in the Mountain View Commun ity located on the Haralson-Polk County line last January 19. Upon arriving at the scene, they found a series of fires were being set, some 27 in all. Summerville and Williams, along with two fire fightin g units belonging to Georgia Kraft Com-

pany and th ree Georgia Forestry Commission units, immediately began extinguishing the blazes.
They came upon a truck with three people, a 60-year old man and a teenage boy and girl, in the cab. The girl was setting old newspaper on fire and the man and boy were throwing the lighted papers out in the forest . The two men immediately began pursuing the fire setters and radioed the Haralson County Sheriff's Department, which set up a roadblock and apprehended the fire setters. The officers found newspaper ashes in the pickup and the two teenagers later admitted setting the fires .
All three were convicted during the April term of Court in Haralson County for setting fire in the forest.

Governor George Busbee congratulates new board members following oath taking ceremony. Left to right are Cecil Hodges, Mrs. Martha Shingler, Governor, Miss Patricia Robinson, and Ray Shirley, Director of the Georgia Forestry Commission.

NEW BOARD MEMBERS APPOINTED

One new member has been ap pointed to the Georgia Forestry Commission Board and two new members have been named to the Commission's Forest Research Board by Governor George Busbee.
Patricia B. Rob inson of Atlanta is the new Comm ission Board appointee and Cecil H. Hodges, Jr. of Sandersv ille and Mrs. Martha Sh ingler of Ashburn have joined the Research Board .
Miss Robinson , a native of Elizabeth City, N. C., is General Manager, Strategy and New Ventures, Mead Corporat ion, Atlanta .
The new board member graduated with a B.A. degree in Economics from Duke University and a M.B.A. degree from the Colgate Darden School, University of Virginia.
Miss Robinson replaces Henry E. Williams of Woodbine, whose term expired. As a member of the board, she will help set policy and procedure for the Georg ia Forestry Commission .
Other board members include Jim L. Gillis, Jr., Soperton, chairman; Felton Denney, Carrollton; Eley C. Frazer, Ill, Albany; and Robert S impson, Lakeland . A. Ray Shirley, Macon, is director of the

Georgia Forestry Commission. Miss Robinson is a member of
the Episcopal Cathedral of Saint Philip in Atlanta and works with the cathedral's community projects. She enjoys white water canoeing and horseback riding and as hobbies she works in her garden and is a photography buff.
Other activities include her association with a group which restores old homes and she is a member of the Atlanta Ballet Association.
Hodges is president of Hodges Lumber Company in Sandersville. He is a native of Oconee, a graduate of Georgia Tech and an Air Force veteran. He is active in business, religious and civic affairs in his city.
The new board member and his wife, Shirley, have four children.
Mrs . Shingler is co-owner of Pete-Mar Company, a firm that bales hardwood chips. She is a certified pubIic accountant, a farmer and the wife of Dr. Clark Shingler, Ashburn veterinarian. They have a daughter, Louise.
Hodges and Mrs. Shingler replace Board Members Pratt Secrest, Thomasville, and James Fendig, formerly of St. Marys but now a resident of Florida.

ANNUAL REPORT
REFLECTS PROGRESS
The annual report of the Georg ia Forestry Commission for Fiscal Year 1981 records a year in which a major breakthrough was realized in computerized biomass cruise.
It was also a year in which the Commission was confronted with the greatest number of forest fires in its history. Firefighters were called out to exti nguish 18,818 wildfires during the period , but they were able to hold the average f ire to only 5.50 acres.
The report pointed out that the prolonged drought was responsible fo r the unusually large number of occurre nces.
Georgia continued to lead the nat ion in the harvest of wood as an e ne rgy source, according to the report, and this account was given on the biomass cru ise development:
A major breakthrough has been realized in forest inventory data need ed in estimating biomass volume. A method has been developed that will estim ate total tree volume and we ight. A co mputerized program has been desig ned that will quickly give measurements in board feet, cords, and tons for ha rd wood and pine. Biomass contained in tops, limbs, cull trees, and small diameter trees can be estimated in to ns. Georgia is the first state to have th is system. The Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Forest Serv ice, cooperated in the study. In other areas of Commission services, the report pointed out that: Commission foresters have given more forestry assistance to landowners in reforestation, utilization, management plans, insect and disease control, ur ban tree problems, and other services t han ever before. Tree nursery production was increased from 62 to 78 million, an increase of 16 million trees. Nursery production for the 1981-82 shipping season has been increased to 90 million trees. During the past year, a record num ber of research results were printed and made available to landowners and industry. The 28-page report, which detai led major activities of the Commission's six departments, was distributed in ea rly December. Copies are available at t he Commission's Education Department in the state headquarters on Riggins Mill Road in Macon. Mailing address is P. 0. Box 819, Macon, Georgia 31298-4599. Phone (912) 744-3355.

Industrial and consultant foresters gather around a computer during a recent seminar in Macon to see a readout on a total biomass cruise after raw data had been fed into the machine.
DEMONSTRATIONS, SEMINAR FOCUS

ATTENTION ON VALUE OF BIOMASS

Field demonstrations, a seminar, publications and a convention exhibit are some of the communication tools employed by the Commission in recent weeks to promote the utilization of the great volume of biomass produced in the forests of Georgia.
Demonstrations were held in Treutlen, Upson and Ware Counties to show land owners, industrialists and others how modern wood harvesting equipment can

~ffectively and economically reduce low grade timber, limbs and forest residue into valuable wood chips.
Although the field demonstrations which featured feller bunchers, grapple skidders and chippers - proved how pre viously unmerchantable wood is now of value for energy and other purposes, they also revealed the value of total biomass - the entire tree, plus all other vegetation found in the woods.

BARK BEETLE UPDATE -

Bark beetle activity intensified statewide during the early fall months of this year, but most of the increase concerned Ips and black turpentine beetles rather than the Southern pine beetle which has plagued much of the state in recent years.
Although Northeast Georgia surveys reveal some light activity, Commission Entomologist Ke rry Thomas said Southern pine beetles are "at an endemic level at the pre sent time."
Thomas said cooler weather will

cause a decline in beetle act ivit y, but the insects can remain alive beneath the bark of trees and then emerge on warmer winter days.
During mild days of winter, landowners should k eep an eye on their pine forests and if signs of insects are spotted, the nearest forestry unit should be contacted, Thomas said.
The entomologist said literature dealing with the identification and control of forest insects is available at Commission offices throughout the state.

A seminar on the Total Biomass Cruise Syste m was held in the Commission audi torium in Macon to acquaint the state' s industrial and consultant foresters with the program which was developed by the Commission and the U.S. Forest Service.
Director Ray Shirley welcomed the foresters and out Iined the purpose of the system. Druid Preston, Chief of the Commission's Forest Management Depart ment; and Alexander Clark, Ill, Research Scientist, U. S. Forest Service, presented details of the unique program and its benefits to landowners and industry.
John Mixon, Chief of the Research Department, summed up the program for the visitors and the seminar was concluded with a demonstration of a computer used to inventory data required in estimating biomass volume. (See annual report story Page 6.)
A Commission exhibit was designed and constructed for display at the recent annual convention of the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation on Jekyll Island to show landowners how forest wastes are now computed as profitable materi al through the biomass program. Similar exhibits are being planned for display in major shopping malls across the state.
The latest findings concerning th e Total Biomass Cruise System have been published by the Commission and the re ports are available through the Research Department.
AMERICAN FB FILMS
GEORGIA FORESTRY
Georgia will be "very well represented" in a film on forestry in the Unit ed States which is being produced by the Am e ri can Farm Bureau, according to Stewart Truelsen, director of Broadcasting for the organization.
Truelsen said forests and forestry activity scenes are being shot in three locations in the nation to represent American forestry . The locales includes Middle Georgia, Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the Sacramento area of California.
Filming completed in Georgia includes scenes at a recent wood energy demonstration near Soperton, the farm of Milton Hopkins, National Tree Farmer of the Year, near Fitzgerald, and an interview with Director Ray Shirley.
Truelsen said the purpose of the film, to be distributed to state farm bureaus around the country upon release sometime next year, is to encourage better management of forests by general farmers.

Firewood Proiect Aids College and Students

olleges large and small seek endowments to help provide financial support. Many schools are endowed with stocks, land, real estate, liquid assets and many other gifts from graduates, corporations, foundations and private citizens wanting the institutions to endure. Truett-McConnell College, nestled in the North Georgia mountains near Cleveland , is one of many small colleges struggling to cope with soaring operational costs. Not unlike other schools in the state, it is not over-endowed with gifts during this time of inflation and recession. The school has found one source of endowment, however, and it is right in its own backyard! It consists of 500 acres of forestland. Most of the timber is low grade hardwood, but with firewood harvesting and pine reforestation programs proposed in a management plan by the Forestry Commission, the property has a bright financial potential. The fuelwood program, which has been underway for several months, employs several students who earn money to supplement their tuition and other college expenses. The school, in turn, realizes an income by selling the quality firewood at $80.00 per cord delivered and $60.00 to customers who pick it up at the site. An automatic wood splitter is being used by the school and the wood is delivered by the college maintenance personnel. The land is yielding from 15 to 20 cords per acre and 10,000 white pine seedlings have been ordered for the first phase of the reforestation program.
Forester Crawford Cooper of the Commission's Blairsville office has coordinated the timber cruise and management plan for the college. He sa id there is little sawtimber on the property and

there had not been a market for the low grade hardwood before the energy shortage came about .
Cooper said the school's acceptance of a comprehensive management plan means the college will be able to harvest pulpwood off the land in 20 years and sawtimber in 25 years.
Dr. Weitman, president of the college, said the idea of utilizing the idle land came about when John Mixon, Chief of the Commission's Research Department, was visiting his office on another matter one day this summer. He said he happened to have plats of the college lands spread out on his desk at the time Mixon arrived . After a discussion of some utilization possibilities for the land, he said, he was convinced the school should take full advantage of a management plan.
Dr. Weitman said the college is looking forward to the reforestation program
which will build an endowment - a well managed forest that will continue to replenish itself down through the years.
The college president said Charles White, a representative of a chain saw company, provided training for the students working in the program and adequate insurance coverage on the youths has been provided by the college.
Dr. Weitman said 15 boys are presently engaged in cutting and spl itting the wood and three or four girls have expressed interest in the project and will probably join the work force this winter.
Mixon praised the college for accepting the challenge of converting unproductive forestland into a profitable renewable resource.
He said "Truett-McConnell College is setting an excellent example for other schools, institutions and private landowners to follow."

Truett-McConnell students shown in top photo expertly using chain saws are, left to right, Travis Smith, East Point; and Greg Banks, Rabun. In the middle picture, Skeeter Thompson, Doraville, and Smith and Banks operate the automatic wood splitter. Shown below are Terry Martin, Cleveland; and Brad Hawkins, Smyrna, loading wood for delivery to Gainesville. The students have been taught to use safety equipment and follow strict rules of safety while working on the project.

n improved version of a mechanical tree seedling harvester that is used in several Southern states has been fabricated in the Commission's shops in Macon and is now in use in the state nurseries. Jim Wynens, Chief of the Reforestation Department, pointed out that a mechanical lifter has been used by the Commission to some extent for several years, but the newly designed model is more dependable. He said the machine, which harvests two rows simultaneously as it moves along the nursery beds, lifts 60 seedlings per second. An electronic tree counter is being developed for the machine, he said, and other innovations in the planning stage includes a system which would package the trees as they are lifted in the field. "Counting, sorting and packaging the seedlings in the field is a concept that would eliminate the need to bring the trees into a packing shed for manual preparation, a method we are now using," the reforestation official said. The Commission built two of the mechanical lifters and Wynens said both will be "a tremendous asset" in harvesting this season's large crop. In commenting on the current production, he said nursery personnel will harvest and ship approximately 90 million' seedlings by the time the current planting season ends in the spring of 1982. Wynens said the state nurseries have sold out of most species, but landowners interested in regular loblolly and improved slash pine, as well as redbud and some hardwoods, are advised to place their orders as cancellations could possibly make some stock available. He said seedlings being sold this season will be sufficient to plant more than 128,000 acres of forests.

RETIREMENT LIFE BEGINS FOR EIGHT
The fa ll of 1981 spel led ret irement fo1 several Commission personnel.
In the Jefferson-Giascock Count~ Unit, Ranger George Barfield steppeo down after 29 years of service. "Time fo1 a younger man to take over and have c: chance at it," said Barfield, who estab lished the unit back in the days of Jeep drawn plows.
Friends and forestry colleagues recent ly honored Forester Sam Martin of th Gainesville District Office and Ranger W. W. Grizzle of the Lumpkin County Unit at a retirement party.
Martin came with the Commission in 1951 and served in Morgan and Washing ton Counties prior to his assignment to the Gainesville office in 1954. Grizzle be-: gan as a patrolman in 1953 and was named acting ranger in 1954 and ranger the following year.
A retirement dinner was also held recently for Ranger J. B. White of the Chattooga County Unit. White came with the unit in 1947, back when it was housed on part of the second floor of the courthouse in Summerville.
William Partridge, who retired this year as Maintenance Shop Manager, came with the Commission as ranger of Lincoln County in 1955. He was transferred to the Administration Department as Property Control Manager in 1964.
Anderson Brown, Utility Worker at the Macon Headquarters, came with the Commission in the spring of 1964. He had previously worked with the Georgia Department of Revenue. A retirement party for Partridge and Brown was held
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Top row, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. White and District Forester A. T. Mauldin; William Partridge and AI Smith, Chief of Administration. Second row, District Forester William Lazenby and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Martin; W. W. Grizzle with Lazenby. Bottom row, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Brown and George Sanders, Procurement Officer; George Barfield and Ranger Richard Phillips.

Georgia Forestry Commission and the Georgia Forestry Association were joint sponsors of a recent two-day legislative tour of forestry and forest products activities in coastal Georgia. The state legislators were members of the Natural Resources Committee and at one stop they were shown first hand how pine trees are converted into paper at the modern linerboard mill of Interstate Paper Corporation in Liberty County (above photos). Left to right are Commission Director Ray Shirley

with Charles Belote of Agri- Timber, Inc., Dublin. In the other photo, State Representative L. L. (Pete) Phillips of Soperton, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, leads
fellow Representatives John G. Crawford of Lyerly and
Bobby Long of Cairo from a machine where wet pulp is converted into kraft linerboard used in the manufacture of corrugated paper.

GEORGIA CONTINUES PULPWOOD LEAD

Georgia is the nation's leading pulpwood producer for the 15th consecutive year.
All 159 counties in the state report some pulpwood production and nine counties cut 100,000 or more cords during the year. The five top producing counties were Burke with 161,752 cords; Laurens with 158,764; Stewart with

128,263; Crawford with 124,316, and Clinch with 116,619.
Georgia produced 9.3 million cords in 1979, a production record. A previous

high came in 1978 when 8.9 million cords were harvested statewide.
Roundwood accounted for about 67 percent of Georgia's total pulpwood output. Residues- chips and sawdust -made up the remainder.

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
SETS FORESTRY MEET
Cost-Effective Regeneration Practices, a one-day Forestry Forum, will be held on March 16, 1982, at Clemson University.
Cost-effectiveness in artificial and natural regeneration of pines, hardwoods, and mixed stands; chemicals, taxes, and management decision-making in regenerating forest stands will be discussed. The Forum, sponsored by Clemson University Extension Forestry, will provide information to professional foresters working in industry, state and federal government, or as private co nsu Ita nts.
For further information, contact Jacqueline Haymond, Extension Forester, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 19631, telephone: 803-656-2478.

Three foresters and a couple of rangers, representing the Commission from the mountains to the seacoast, team up to form a band. The five made their debut at the recent training session at N orman Park and were well received b y an audience of Commission personnel and special guests. Left to right are Forester Terry Price, Macon, Forester Jim Wynens, Macon, head of the Reforestation Department; Ranger Everett Rhodes, Blairsville, Ranger Andrew Brantle y, Vidalia; and Forester James Coo k , Pooler.

LAWS CONCERNING

TIMBER, WILDLIFE

TO BE DISCUSSED

A conference on Timber and Wildlife

Management and the Law will be held at

the University of Georgia Center for Con-

tinuing Education January 20-21.

The conference, sponsored by the

Council on Continuing Education for

Foresters, is designed for forest land

managers and others who are concerned

about environmental laws and regulations

which affect decision making about the

management of private, corporate, and

public lands.

Major topics include the impact of wa-

ter quality laws on forest and wildlife

management practices, Endangered Spe-

cies Act, use of chemicals, property laws

and a demonstration on how to perform

in the courtroom as a professional wit-

ness.

Micha el Osborne, attorney and Direc-

tor, Southern Wetlands Project, National

Wildlife Federation; Thomas L. Bass,

attorney with Anderson , Walker, and

Reichert, Macon; and Owens Smith, pro-

Cordele Lions panicipating in a tree planting ceremony at the City 's Community Cen - fessional forester and attorney, Marine

ter are, left to right, AI Mills, club president; Ranger Lawrence Tondee, past president Extension Service, Institute of Natural

of the club; and George Good, club director.

Resources, University of Georgia, are the

LIONS PLA NTING TREE S WORLD WIDE

principal instructors. For additional information, contact
Dr. Leonard A. Hampton, Center for

Forest Ranger Lawrence Tondee of Lions Club has also cooperated with the Continuing Education, University of

the Commission's Crisp-Dooly Forestry Commission on several projects and the Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, phone

Unit and fellow members of his Lions local Lioness Club sponsors the annual 404-542-3063.

Club in Cordele are among Georgians par- Miss Crisp County Forestry pageant.

ticipating in a worldwide tree planting

program. They have joined the 1,320,000 club

COMPUTER COURSE SET AT UNIVERSITY

members around the world in a program

to plant trees in local communities.

A short course on the Use of Micro- tieing foresters from the private and pub-

Kaoru Murakami of Japan, President co mputers In Forestry will be held at the lic sector.

of the International Association of Lions University of Georgia Center for Continu-

Clubs, said he is asking "every Lion, ing Education February 24-25.

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Lions Club and District to plant the seeds of peace by planting a tree." He pointed out the need for reforestation in many sections of the world and d~cla, ed that "a tree personifies the peace and tranquility t hat is a part of the natural order ...".
Ranger Tondee said the Cordele (Day)

The one and one-half day course is designed to introduce fundamental concepts of microcomputers and to discuss their use and potential use in a variety of forestry and resource management applications.
The course will be of benefit to prac-

recently at the Commission headquarters. Others who recently retired included
Ranger Jerry Ridley of the BaldwinHancock -Putnam Unit and J. K. Jones, Dougherty County Ranger.
Colleagues and other friends of Ridley honored the ranger with a dinner in

Eatonton. He came with the GFC as

ANNUAL FOREST FE STIVAL SCHEDULED

assistant ranger in Putnam County in 1953 and was soon named ranger. He

The 25th annual Waycross-Ware Coun- hibition, barbecue, banquet and a display retired as a senior ranger of the tri -county

ty Forest Fest ival has been scheduled for of school children's forestry posters. unit.

May 1-9,1 982, according to planners for

For further information concerning

Jones started as assistant ranger of the

the popu lar Southeast Georgia event. the festival, contact Martha M. Davis, Dougherty Unit and became nurseryman

Events will includ e forestry contests, Publicity Chairman, Waycros<;, Journal of Herty Nursery in 1950 and superinten-

th e wam p Ru n, a beauty pageant, pa- Herald, P.O. Box 219, Waycross, GA dent of that facility in 1953. Wh en the

rade, an arts and crafts show, a flower 31501, phone 912-283-2244.

nursery was closed, Jones was named

show, rodeo, a fo restry eq u ipment ex-

ranger of the Dougherty Unit.

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FORESTRY STORY
Tom Moore's career awareness class of Central High School in Newnan got a pretty good dose of forestry on a recent autumn afternoon as they strolled along the winding nature trail adjacent to the Commission's Coweta County Unit.
Ranger Darrell (Lynn) McElroy guided the boys and girls along the scenic route, with frequent stops to identify a specie, point out an unusual characteristic, show
Ranger McElroy stops often along the wooded path to point out interesting forest facts for the high school students and their teacher.

nature's way of healing wounds, describe various diseases and insects and ask students to guess the ages of certain trees.
At the beginning of the trail in the wooded plot, the ranger took an increment borer from his pocket and showed the students how the age of a tree could be determined without felling the tree.
That demonstration immediately
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grabbed th e attention of the class and they were well disciplined and attentive as they crossed wooden foot bridges and walked up and down ridges to complete the picturesque trail.
McElroy explained many of the functions of rangers, foresters and others involved in professional forestry for the benefit of students who exp ressed inter-

est in enteri ng the field. They w ere also shown a weath er station and some of the basic techniques of fire prevention and suppression we re ex p la ined.
The group from Ce ntral High was not the first grou p to vi sit the nature trail, nor will it be the last.
Since the trail was establ ished about six years ago, school st ud ents from kindergarten to senior high school, as well as Cub and Boy Scouts, garden club members and others, have visited th e tra il. Some who see it dressed in fl aming colors of autumn come back in the spring to view it in delicate greenery.
The heavily fo rested trail contains white ash , wat er oal- , hickory, sourwood, poplar, post oak , seve ral species of pine, dogwood, beech and many other trees, as well as a wide variety of bushes, ferns and moss.

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Thank you so much for shar ing your ex pertise and f ree materi als wi th the Co lumbia Cou nty career educa tion reso u rce t eache rs o n N o vember 5. I commend you on yo u r ge nero sity and enthusiasm. Our teachers sincerely enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere and we re ab le to obtai n pertinent information t hroughou t the presentation as a result.
I also want to commend the Forestry Co m mission for devoting assistance and materi als for the education of our youth. A s our society becomes more and more co m p le x, th e schools will need more and mo re assist ance fr o m co mmunity-minded industry to meet the educational dema nds o f our students. Co lu mb ia County commends the Commission for providing such attractive, interesting, and va luab le resources for use in the classroom.
Connie L. Davis Columbia County School System
Appling, Georgia
We have received your film, Georgia's Wood Energy. It is a nice and i nformative fi lm, and useful in our work with wood energy.
I am taking the liberty of showingt h is film to interested people in the State Forestry O ffice as well as those i n the State Divisi on o f Natural Resources, Research & Development. I shal l return the fi lm to you in the next few days.
Elvin T. Choong Professo r of Forestry Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana
We want to thank all of you for your prompt response and efficient work in containing the woods fire on our property (Babbs Mill Road, Hampton) in October.
The fire was reported by our neighbor, Mr. Sanders Floyd, who lost his own home to a house fire two months ago. Thanks to your firefighters, our house is sti ll here, and you may be sure it was with a deep feeling of gratitude, relief, and thankfulness that we returned home on Saturday evening to find the house stil l standing. Though smoke still drifted heavily through the woods, we knew immediately from the sight of your carefully plowed firebreak that the problem was alreadv taken care of and the danger passed.
Willard, Ople, and Shei la Popwell Route 2, Box 1150
Hampton. GA 30225
The entire staff and children of Crippled Childrens Clinic want to thank you for you r t ime in helping us find a Christmas tree. Your help has given so much happiness to so many people. We all thank you, and wish you much happiness and a v ery Merry Christmas.

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FRE D S. HALL has been named ranger of th e Cha ttooga County Unit foll ow ing t he re t irem e nt of J. B. WHIT E. A nat ive of Walk er County, RANG ER HALL came wi th th e un it as a towerman in 1971 and became a patrolman two years late r. Th e ranger an d his wife, Elsie, have three ch il d ren ... RICHARD PHILLI PS, a native of Soperton w ho came with the Commission

in 1968 as pat rolma n in t he Co lum bia County Unit, has been named ranger of th e Jefferson-Giascock Unit to succeed GEORGE BARFIELD, who rece ntly retired. RANGER PHILLIPS and his wife have two children and make their home in Louisville...MARVIN MARTIN, a native of Dahlonega who came with the Commission as a patrolman in 1973, has been named ranger of the Lumpkin County Unit. RANGER MARTIN replaces W. W. GRIZZLE, who recently retired . Th e new ranger and his wife, Jo Anne, have two children ...ALTON HESTER, who came with the Commission as a patrolman in th e Putnam County Unit in 1968, has been named ranger of the Baldwin -Hancock -Putnam County Unit. RANGER HESTER succeeds JERRY RIDLEY, who recently retired from the post . Th e new ranger and his wife, Sandra, and their two children mak e their home in Eatonton. They are members of Centra l Un ited Method ist Church ...Senior Fo rest Rang er LOTT TURNER , Charlton County Un it, was named Outstanding Superviso r for th e 1981 Summer Youth Emp loymen t Program for the eightcou nty area serv ed by the Slash Pine Co mm unit y Actio n Ag ency. He received a plaq ue of re cognition from th e Georgia Departm ent of Labor.

Professio nal foresters from Finland and Sweden were recent guests of the Comm ission. They are shown here on a tour of the seed o rchard at Baldwin State Forest. Th ey later attended a forest demo n stration arranged by the Commission perso nnel.

Carol Aycock Crippled Childrens Clinic
A tlanta, Georgia

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Georgia Forestry Commission personnel, shown above with Director Ray Shirley, received commendation awards for their outstanding performance in serving the Commission and the public. Ceremonies were held at the annual training session at Norman Park. In the front row, left to right, are Patrolman George D. Smith, Albany; Ranger Waymond (Sonny) Huggins, LaFayette; and Patrolman Jerry Griffin, Fitzgerald. Back row, left to right, Ranger Charlie Meadows, Harlem; Director Shirley, and Accountant Joe Cowart, Macon. These men are shown with commendation awards presented by the Commission for contributions made in the interest of better forestry. Seated, left to right, are George Strother of Athens, Chairman of the Forestry Committee, Conservation District Supervisors; Cloyce Pittman of Macon, an executive of Tom's Foods, Ltd.; William J. Barton, Savannah, an official of Union Camp and past president of the Georgia Forestry Association; and Bobby Taylor, Fitzgerald, newly elected president of the Association, who accepted an award for Glenn Anthony, Executive Secretary of the Association. Standing, left to right, are Ray Shirley, Commission Director, who presented the awards; Eley C. Frazer, Ill, Albany, member of the GFC Board; and Jim L. Gillis, Soperton, prominent landowner and chairman of the Board. The presentations were made at Norman Park.
Two foresters receive awards for outstanding service to the Georgia Tree Farm program from Jack W. Gnann, right, Chairman of the state's Tree Farm Committee. In the top photo, George B. Turk of the Forestry Commission, Sandersville, who was named Tree Inspector of the Year, is presented a deer rifle. In the bottom photo, Walter L. (Bud) Crown of Owens-Illinois Co., Valdosta , named Outstanding District Tree Farm Chairman, is presented a shotgun and a plaque.

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Christmas Bells
by Hen ry Wadswo rth Longfellow
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth . good-will to men!
A nd thought how, as the day had come The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Till, ringing, swinging on its way, The world revolved from night to day
A voice. a chime A chant sublime Of peace on ea rth, good-will to menl
And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth." I said;
"For hate is strong And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead; nor doth He sleep! The Wrong shall fail.
..... The Right prevail ,
With peace on earth, good-will to men! "

WISHING YOU A JOYOUS

Director Ray Shirley and the Staff, Georgia Forestry Commission

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