Georgia forestry, Vol. 4, no. 1 (Jan. 1951)

GeorRiB Forestry

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REDOUBLED EFFORTS

WATCH THESE FIRES

NEEDED

(From the Milledgeville Union-Recorder)

(From the Brunswick News)
With the advent of the most dangerobs fire season have c ome warnings from all sides stressing the need for redoubled efforts to prevent the thousands of wildfires that every year rake Georgia's woodlands. The dry, windy months of the late fall and winter always heral the beginning of the period when forest fires are most frequent, burn faster and more fiercely, and are most difficult to control.
Last winter Georgia experienced
its worst forest fire season in .tO
years as record conditions of drought and high winds were recorded. Disastrous fires made frequent front-
page headlines as 9,641 wildfir:es -s,vrept over 291,500 acres in protecfted
counties alone ancf destroyed many times that much timber land in the unprotect'ed counties.
With these figures fresh in their mJflds, and fully''a~are of the danger iinpending in the next few months, forestry and forest industry leaders throughout the state have come foreward to urge constant and complete cooperation of all persons in preventing fires, in aiding fire fighting crews in fire suppression, and in protecting the state's woodlands for harvest. Certainly it is a program deserving full success.

This is the height of the fire season. Hunters are in the woods and fields, the weather is cold and disagreeable, requiring fires, so it is easy to start a fire without intending to do so.
When you let a fire start in the woods you are burning money, you are destroy in~ homes, books and many other th1ngs that are made from the wood pulp. Be careful. All fires
are man made and very few of them intentionally and deliberately s~arted. So take care, stamp out c1garettes and cover fires with dirt. The prevention of fire is important, and they can be prevented by constantly keeping in m1nd their danger.
Forest fires are easily started but difficult to stop. Don't start them.

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Georgia Forestry

Vol. IV

JANUARY, 1951

No. 1

A monthly bulletin published by the
Georgia Forestry COmmission, 435
State CSpitol, Atlanta. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Atlanta, Ga., under the act
of August 24, 1912. Member, Georgia
Press Association.

January, 1951

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Commission Plans

Four-Year Expansion

1.1/' th the long-range purpose of prov~ding the protection, development, and wise use that is essential to the fullest economic and social benefits from the state's great forest resource, the Board of Commis-
sioners, Georgia Forest ryCorrmiss ion, has approved a comprehensive -pl~n calling for gradual extension of fire protection to all counties in the state, the construction of new nursery facilities, moving the Commission workshops and warehouse from Waycross and Baxley to Macon, the ~onstruction of new headquarters buildings for the various forestry districts, the placing of technical personne 1 as County Fares ter s in charge of County Forestry Units as vacancies occur, and a broadening of the Commission's management services to landowners.
In announcing these plans, Commission Director Guyton DeLoach emphasized that the accomplishment of all these objectives is contingent, and entirely dependent upon, the appropriation of the necessary funds by the current Legislature. Hepointed out "that a greatly increased
Commission budget for the next two years will be absolutely necessary
if the state is to adequately protect and fully develop her woodlands. In view of the fact that in our forests we are protecting the resource which is the basis of a ~300 million busi-
ness in Georgia every year and provides employment for more than 125,000 Georgians every year, the cost of fire protection is not just an expense item, but really represents a good, sound investment 1 ", _
The Board, meeting in December at the State Capitol, heard the plan as pr~sented by Director DeLoach. The present objective is the extension of fire protection to approximately 20 additional counties each fiscal year,
thus achieving statewide forest fire protect ionwi thin the next four years or by the end of 1()54.
With a view to maintaining suf-
ficient nursery production of forest

tree seedlings to meet the demand by landowners, the Commission hopes to construct and place in operation a new nurserywithin the next two years. Localityof the new nursery wi 11 likely be the northern part of the state, though actual progress in this work is contingent upon the providing of funds by the Legislature.
To reduce time and cost in equipping new vehicles, in repair work, and in storage and distribution of equipment and materials, the plan calls for mo.. r 1g the Commission workshops and warehouse from Waycross and Baxley to Macon.
District Headquarters are planned for the nine forestry districts in the state, to meet a need which has long existed for suitable office, warehouse, workshop, repair, and garaging facilities for carrying out the operations of the Districts,.
Georgia is now in the middle of another tree planting season and pic tured is one of the mechanical tree planters being widely used in reforesting idle acres with the mor~ than
er 30,000,000 s:Bedl'ngs ... tbat .are '"being
shipped from nur ies this year.
empThhaesjzterdee~~ta~ne{i~nogn.p~rroygta;<t!i'ial nJ~p~)robger..{hagm
of the stat ~ s ~k-trt'l organ1~ n s >Mlich to date has purchased~/' than 125 mechanica e o ,l~s)'o r free use~ lcndov.ners .......lleoi-.-11P'~

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Georgia Forestrv

Pulpwood Conservation Association

Sets Annual Meeting

The 1951 Annual Meeting of the Sou~hern Pu.lpwood Conservation Assoc1at1on w1ll be held January 23 in Atlanta, according to announcement by Henry J. Malsberger, the Association's Forester and General Manager. Headquarter~ for the meeting will be theAtlantaBlltmore Hotel, witha record attendance anticipated.
Registration will begin at 8:30 AM, and highlighting the !JlOrning session will be discussions of Bankers' Forestry Programs by G.G. Ware, Chairman, Forestry Committee, American Bankers Association, Earle Cocke, President, Fulton National Bank, Atlanta, and T.M. Baker, Assistant to President, Federal Land Bank, Columbia, S.C. Scheduled for the morning also are the address by Association president R. M. worth~m, Jr., President, Southland Paper Mllls, Inc., and the Conservation Report by Malsberger.
The a fternoo.n session will include talks by E. W. Tinker, Executive Secretary, Arner ican Paper and Pulp Association, on the "Importance of the South's Pulp and Paper Produ-
tion," an outlining of "Fifty Years of Industrial Forestry Progress'', by W.J. Damtoft, Assistant Secretary and Treasurer, The Champion Paper and Fiber Company, and a discussion of "Forest Conservation and Our National Emergency", by M. H. Collet, Assistant to the Vice-President, West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. Immediately following will be a business session for the Association membership, followed in the evening hy the annual banquet for members and guest. Serving as Master of Ceremonies for the banquet will be J.E. McCaffrey, Division Superintendent. Woodlands Department, International Paper Company, and James D. Arrington, Collins, Mississippi, wi~l make the evening's address.
A Board of Directors and Officers ~eeting on January 24 will conclude the session. Officers and directors of the Association are, in addition
to Wortham, J .H . Keener, Champion Pap~ r and Fiber Company, Association

Vice-Pre's ident, Ear 1 Porter, International Paper Company, C. Y. Townely, the Champion Paper and Fiber Company L.D. Hall, International Paper, R.V. Miles, Jr., Gulf States Paper Corporation, Vertrees Young, Gay~or
Container Corporation, T.T. Dunn,
Union Bag and Paper, N. R. Harding., ~aeon Kraft, S.K. HUdson, Container Corporation of America, R.C. Badenbrock, the Mead Corporation, A.L. Weinrich, Continental Can Company,
and E. J. Gaynor, III, Brunswick
Pulp ancfPf'oer Company.
More than 225 corrmuni ty banks throughout Georgia have bought 125 tree-planting machines to date, many of them jointly, and are cooperating in a conservation program designed to help farmers plant their idle or sub-marginal lands with quick growing, readily marketable pine trees. Cooperating agencies include the Georgia Forestry Commission, Fulton National Bank of Atlanta, Georgia Forestry Association, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association, Georgia Bankers Association, U.S. Forest Service, Soil Conservation Service and many Georgia railroads.
Thebariks are loaning the machines on a first-come, first-served basis, without charge to the farmer, and the planting machineswill be made available to any landowner in Counties where a cooperating Bank purchased a machine. Arrangements and scheduling are by the County Forester or Agent. The machines will enable Farmers to plant up to three acres per hour, or about 2,400 pine seedlings per hour and wi 11 plant six to 10 inche~deepon almost anykindof soil.
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January, 1951

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Jlrvd JoUU .fumiun eo.~;

~~,.e~ P'tOmdeJ

The resignation of L.C. Hart Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of Management, effective as of Jan. 1, has been announced by GuytonDeLoach Director of the Georgia Forestry Commission. Hart, who has served a number of years with the Commission, has accepted a position with the West
Lumber Compariy, Atlanta. DeLoach named.Jam~s C. Turner Jr., previously the District forester at Washington, successor.
Hart's first connection in state forestry was in January, 1938, as an Assistant District Forester. In 1941 he was promoted to District Forester. He served in the Army from 1942 to 1Q46, when he joined the Georgia Power Comp~y as a Forest Engineer. In 1947 he returned to state work, this time as Assistant Director in Charge
of Management. To fill the vacancy created by
Turner's promotion, DeLoach named
Lester L. Lundy, for the past two years Assistant to State District Forester Hugh P. Allen.
In announcing Hart's resignation, DeLoach stated that "it is with much regret that I accept Hart's resignation, for the Commission is losing one of its most experienced and capable leaders. Hart has served well the cause of state forestry and has

L. C. HART, JR.
been instrumental in the buildup of the program of forest management services to the landowners of the state. Under Hart's supervision, the
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JAMES C. TURNER, JR.

LESTER L. LUNDY

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Georgia Forestry

So.uihe~Ut, 1/)o.'tedi!Uf e(JH,te~ St~

"Private Enterprise in Forestry"

"Private Enterprise in Forestry" will be the theme of the Tenth Annual Southern Forestry Conference scheduled for Savannah Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 15-17. The Forest Farmers Association, sponsors of the Conference, anticipates a record attendance at the meetings which will be held in the General Olethorpe Hotel.
Senator Allen J. Ellender, Chair-
man of the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee, will be a featured speaker, along with others who have long been instrumental in e:;tablishin~ better forestcy practices on private lands. The Conference sessions will emphasize the

progress in private forest land managt!ment and opportunities for fu ture advancement under free enterprise systems of forest operation.
Other highlights of the meeting will be exhibits and displays of forestry tools and equipment and conservation materials, panel discussions and open forums on private forestry, and the placing in order of the Conference findings as a guide for continued. forestry advancement.
Entertainment highlights of the Conference will include a Southern Forestry Golf Tournament, bridge
for the ladies, and the annual banQuet on Friday evening.

MACON JAYCEESS' FORESTRY DEMONS'fRA'fiON. In pictu're at Left, C'rowl attending demonst'ra tion heLd in Bibb County in Decembet' Listens as W.P. Simmons, J.C. Leade'r, speaks. Othe1 1 speakenWe're Left to 'right, Len ALLen, J.C., E.'f. Newsome, Inte'rstate Land and Development Co., Chat'Les Evet'ett, Jeff'reys-McEL'rath Co., E.V. B'rendet', U.S.F.S., J.D. Fountain, Arm.st'rong Co'rk Co., and J,E. PhiLLips, GeO'rgia Fo'rest'ry Commission. In 'righ1 pictu're, J.D. Fountain, A'rmst'rongCo'rk Co., expLainsp.,ope,.. PLantin2 of tt'ee seedLing! as M.W. Fa,..,.., Geo'rgia Fo'rest'ry Commission, demonst'rates.

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Seedlings are carefully inspected on grading table to make sure only healthyJ vigorous trees are shipped. Mack NealJ centerJ foregrounaJ Davisboro Nursery Super1ntendentJ directs the grading and counting.

With the 1950-51 planting season almost half completed, seedling shipments from the state's three nurseries are proceeding satisfactorily, according to announcement by Guyton ~Loach, Director of the Georgia Forestry Commission. "To date, " DeLoach said, "landowners of the statehave received almost 15 million seedlings from the nurseries at Davisboro, Flowery Branch and 'Albany," Be emphasized "that all the seedlings are disease-free, heal thy, and vigorous, and if properly handled and planted will grow into valuable pine stands." The seedlings have been provided to landowners at the cost of production.
In stressing the need for great care in planting seedlings, ~Loach stated that "Seedlings are likely to die if left untended for long after their removal from nursery beds. The purchase of seedlings represents an expenditure by the landowner which should be safeguarded from loss. This can best be done by the proper care of his planting stock."
"Many months of time, endless work and care, and much expense h ave

been involved in the product ion of each pine seedling," he continued, "and proper planting is the final step to insure that the seed 1ings wi 11 thrive, grow, and help to reforest many of the state's 2~ million acres of !arid which must be planted to trees to become productive."
Seedlings are packed in moss for shipp ing .

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Georgia Forestry

Ralph McCurdy, Walker County Ranger, strongly urges Walker Countains to "Remember folks, no one burns up their homes and barns to rid themselves of rats, so why burn up our valuable timber tor id themselves of boll weevils. It was proven last year thatburning the woodlands did not control the boll weevi 1, so let's forget our past mistakes and give the forest fire protection unit all the help you can in preventing forest fires. "
According to Amason, "A few rules to check before burning off that 'pet patch', cornfiled, or brush pile are, as follows:
''Picking the right weather is about the most important. "Plow, rake, or have some kind of fire break. "Burn only after 4 PM. "Have tools, help, and water handy. "Durn on calm days only. "Notify Ranger when possible of your intention to burn. "
Ranger T.M. Strickland and the
Baldwin County Board of &lucation are cooperating in a program to present good forestry conservation and protect ion methods in the Baldwin County schools. Strickland is taking with him each day two boys from various schools in the county on his forestry work and demonstrating the use of fire fighting equipment, met hods of protecting forests and in gene r a l g iving them a good days lesson in forestry ma'1agement.

Ranger James J. Carter 's hardhitting Polk County "forest patrol, "--four months ago a brand new idea in forest-fighting circles, has been labeled a "definite success," by Seventh Distrir.t Forester F.J. Pullen.
"The plan behind detecting fires throu~h use of the 'forest patrol' plan, ' the District Forester said, had not been tried before in any of Georgia's ~6 counties now under organized forest fire protection. It was an innovation, but I believe it's now passed the experimental stage. "
Polk County's Forest Protection Unit, under Ranger Carter's leadership, operates much in the standard manner used by its 85 fellow units once the group has arrived at the scene of a blaze. It is in the prefire-fighting stage of detection and investigation that Ranger Carter's unit differs from the others.
"Before we began this system;" Carter says, "I'd dispatch a vehicle with a fire-fighting crew out to the scene whenever one of the towermen detected smoke or when we received a phone call reporting smoke.
"Under our new system, I hold off dispatching the men until I've had a look at the fire scene. To get that 'first look,' and to get to the fire in a hurry, I have a special light pickup truck which serves as the Unit's patrol car."
The Polk Ranger pointed out that some fires don't require any extra personnel--they're the "controlled burning," where landowners are burning off brush and using the proper amount of percaution to see the flames don't spread to forest fire size.
Why the need for a "forest pa-
t ro 1? ''
''Sending out equipment and personnel to a blaze where they're not required,'' Carter explained, "is to a County Forest Protection Unit what a false alarm is to a city fire dedepartment. It hits you, as a taxpayer, because it's unnecessarily us in~ your tax-purchased gasoline, wear1ngdownyour tax-purchased equipment , and causing additional loss of timber which burns while 'false alarms' are being answered by an entire Par tection Unit. "

January, 1951

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Fire Season Report .e'I""" (!Jrpl.en .Nali().H,(i,l

Georgia is entering the most dangerous period of the present forest fire'season. Forest fires will probably double during December, January and February in spite of constant vigilance and immediate action by protection forces throughout the state.
During the three month's period from September 1 through November 30, 863 wild woods fires in the state burned more than 11,0~7.61 acres in protected counties alone and the average siz~ of each fire increased from 4~ acres in September to slightly more than 12 acres in November. As the fire season progresses, the number of fires and the acreage burned multiply month by month as evidenced by the fact that in September 70 fires burned 622 acres. in October .272 fires burned 4, 147 acres, and in November 521 fires burned 6,268 acres. Preliminary December fire reports indicate at this time that the number of fires and the acreage burned wi 11 exceed November total.
Forestry and forest products leaders ha've issued repeated pleas to the public for more care and cooperation in preventing and combatting w0ods fires, and Guyton DeLoach, Director, Georgia Forestry Commission, announced that ''during the winter months of December, January and Feb-
(Conti n u e d o n P a g e 1 0 )

4-ell dJ.D4ed'Uj 'k/i~UUVJ.
Lynn L. Ogden Augusta, is
Georgia's newest national 4-H Club forestry champion. For outstanding achievements in farm forestry, Ogden wa'S presented a $300 scholarship plus an all-expense paid trip to Chicago for the twenty-ninth National 4-H Club Congress on Nov. 30.
Eighteen-year-old Ogden has been in 4-H work since he was 10, and his interest began when he learned that $50,000 worth of forest products were going up in smoke in Richmond County each year. Hehasplanted 9,000 seedlings on his father's 43-acre farm and built fire lands all around his plantation. He also has given 34 _demonstrations of approved forest practices before 4-HClub and adult audi-
ences. Having heiped fight forest fires,
Ogden is greatly concerned aboutwi lc woods fires in Richmond County, but feels fortunate that his county has an organized fighting force in the Richmond County Forest Protection Unit.
Ogden is a freshman at Augusta Junior College and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn L. Ogden. He is the second Georgia youth in three y~ars to win a national 4-H Club award 1n forestry. Dickie Tucker, of Tifton, was a 1948 scholarshipwinn~r.
Each year four national winners receive scholarships from the American Forest Products Industries Inc.

GIVING THANKS FOR TREES

lod of the Forest, Gracious Lord,

To Thee we voice our or trees that clothe

tthheannakks~d

earth

And guard the river banks;

'

hat give so freely of their shade

To city park and street;

hat shelter man from winter's blast,

And from the .summer's heat.

We praise Thee for the oak's great strength, And for the wi !low's grace
We thank Thee for the purity Found in the birch-leaf's face.
For singing trees, tuned with the wind-These make our hearts rejoice;
For trees in poetry and art, Our gratitude we voice.
By Aletha M. Bonner.

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Geor~ia

Schools, many c1v1c clubs, conservation clubs and other organizations throughout Georgia will hold special ceremonies and programs on Friday, February 16 when Georgia celebrates i ts annual tree planting day . Arbor Day was set aside as the
third Friday in February by the State Legislature in 1941 and isdesigned to remind all to conserve, perpetuate and beautify our forests.

trees, and surroundings.
County and local bo~rds cf education in Gebrgia are required to observe some appropriate exerc is and the State Superintendent of Schools arranges programs for the proper observance of Arbor Day, whilE the Superintendent and teachers direct the attention of pupils to thE day and topic by prac!"; ral exercises.

~'JOE BEAVER..

By Ed Nofziger

}' orest Service, U.S. Department or Agriculture
"He tossed away a lighted cigarette, so I attempted to cut him
down to the ground."

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HAR T, TURNER~ LUNDY

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seedling production of the state s three nurseries has been raised to record proportions during the years 1948 to 1950".
- As Assistant Commission Director in dlarge of Management, Turner took charge of the forest management activities of the Commission throughout the state, and his headquarters now are in Atlanta.
,-'Turner, " said DeLoach in comnenting on the promotion, "is by trairiing and experience well qualified to assume the duties of Assistant Director of the Commission and head of the management Activities. He has served well in the past as a Farm Forester and District Forester and has had wide experience in "the phases of forest manal!ement. 11
Turner is a graduate of the Uni-
veristy of Georgia School of Forestry.
TREE PLANTERS

"In Lundy, " Dei..oach de c lared , "the Tenth District is getting a new District Forester who is by training and experience well-qualified to assume to duties of his new position, and the Commission is glad to have a forester of his qualifications to fill the vacancy. As Assistant District Forester in Camilla during the past two years, Lundy has become experienced in the various phases of fire protection, timber management, and public relations. 11
District Forester Allen expressed his ''extreme regret at losing the services of my capable assistant 11 but added that, "I am highly grati-
He<;J that Lur:tdY has. received the promot ton of whtch he 1s so deserving."
Lundy is a native of Boston Thomas County, Ga., and a graduate of the Univershy of Georgia School of Forestry. He and his wife are making their home at Washington , where the District Headquarters is located.

(Continued from Page 3) Many farmers have already taken
advantage of this opportunity to plant waste and idle lands offered !by the conservation program, which is aimed to utilize most of the ~h million acres of unprofitable lands in Georgia which must be planted to trees if they are to yield a reasonable income to their owners.
Yes, 99 out of 100 woods fires . are caused by people!

FIRE SEASON
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ruary, the danger of forest fires wi 11 increase as the woods become dryer and dead forest litter and undergrowth become more inflammable. Complete cooperation by everyone is the only answer to preventing woods fires. Wild fires will destroy many thousands of dollars worth of trees ., personal property and buildings--no ma~ter how many men and how much equipment is pitted against them. The only way to save this great loss is for every Georgia cit i zen a nd every Georgia tour i st to r e member a nd pr ac tice all fire prevention rules, and to make doub l y sur e t hat he is not the one to start a wild woods f ir e."
More Geor gia counti e s a r e now under protection t han ever befo r e, and protection forc e s i n the R6 prot ec t ed counties have been inc reased duri ng t he f i r e s eason . Coun t y Foresters and Coun t y Ranger s , forest fi r e fighting c r e ws and equipment a r e on 24 hour a day duty, seven days a week, and all are in readiness for instant use in combatting_ woods fires.

.Georgia Forestry
JANUARY 1951

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