Georgia forestry, Vol. 4, no. 10 (Oct. 1951)

GEORGIA FORESTRY

Forest-ry

Reaches

Bargain Sale Now Under Way

( From the Rome News- Tri btme)

The Georgia Forestry Conmission has a real bargain sale going on.
The canmission has annO\mced that orders are now being accepted for eight species of forest tree seedlings.
'The coat is plenty cheap: only S2.50 per thousand for pine seedlings; S2 for black locust; and $6 for eastern red cedar,
Arizooa cypress and yellow pop-
lar.
Of course, it will take years to realize a crop. But a crop of trees requires much less work than does any other crop you can na~. You don't have to spray poison or chop weeds. You don't have to worry about dry

weather or too much rain, after you get your crop started. Insects and diseases are not a serious problem. However, it's not all easy. You've also gotto use a little conmon sense in harvesting it.
Aa for markets, at the present they're excellent. Timber for lumber is selling rapidly at high prices. Pulpwood is in demand. Plywood mills are operating full speed.
But it's also good business from several other view points to reforest our lands. Good stands of timber keep top soil from washing away. Good stand~ also preserve ~nd protect watei resources.

GEORGIA FORESTRY

Vol. 4 October, 1951 No.lO
Published ~~nthly by the
GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION, State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia. Guyton DeLoach, Di~ecto~

Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office under the Act of August 24, 1912. Member of the Georgia Press Association.

EDI'I'CR

* * * .R. E. Davis

ASSOCIATE EDITCR

.Robert Rutherford

DISTRICT OFFICES, DISTRICT I DISTRICT II DISTRICT I II DISTRICT IV DISTRICT VI DISTRICT VII DIS1RICT VIII DISTRICT IX DISTRICT X

* * * Georgia Forestry Commission:
P. 0. Box 268, Statesboro P. 0. Pox 122, Camilla P. 0. Pox 169, Americus P. 0. Pox 333, Newnan Court House, Macon West Fuilding, Rome P. 0. Fox 811, Waycross P. O. Pox 416, Ga1nesville P. 0. Fox ~02, Washington

New Heights
(From the Brunswick News)
Georgia's Forestry Commission had closed the books on what has been termed "one of the most successful years in the organization's history- -a year which brought Georgia's progress in forestry to a new high."
Reviewing the past 12 mooths, the conmission reported 86 counties were under organized forestry protectioo July 30, 1950. Olrrent conrnission records show 103 counties were under protection July 31, 1951.
Progress also was reported in the field of fire fighting. More efficient methods of fighting wildfire helped to cut dCM'Jl on the percentage of protected land burned from each individual wildfire in the State's protected counties in the 1949-' 50 year, with each wildfire burning an average of 30.24 acres. Each wildfire in the State's protected counties in the 1950-'51 year burned an average of 22.53 acres, a reduction of 7. 71 acres P"'r fire.
Percentage of wildfire loss of acres under protection also was considerably reduced during the past 12 months. Wildfires during the 1949-' SO year burned 2. 09 3
per cent of all state protected lands. During the 1950-' 51 seasons, despite the fact that nearly 900, 000 more acres were under protection, loss on the protected lands
was held down to 1.561 per cent.
Furthermore the State's 25,000,000 acres of forest lands afford values which cannot be measured in terms of dollars alone. Certainly wildfire, re~reation of all kinds, water shed protectioo and other factors that go with forest wealth contribute to Georgia welfare.

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OCTOBER , 1951

105 County Foresters,
Rangers Make Reacly For

With 75 of the 85 eligible counties now entered, the Georgia Forestry Association's $1000 Forest Fire Prevention Contest is now in full swing, according to Hugh Dobbs ,Association president.
Many counties have now completed selection of Contest Councils and subcommittees, and periodic meetings of the Council and committees are being held to report on past progress in fire prevention work and map plans for future activities.
Dobbs and B. M. Lufburrow, Association Exceutive-Secretary, both urged this week, that all entrants make haste to set up their Con test Council and subcommittees and start their fire prevention.
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FALL WILDFIRE SEASON--Plowing of a firebreak, (center of tograph, helped prevent further spread of this fire.

Dangerous Fire Season

Rangers and Foresters of the Georgia Forestry Commission, with one of the dryest summers in many years behind them, this month face opening of the dangerous fall fire season with the realization that ''anything can happen,'' Guyton DeLoach, Commission Director, reported.
''No one,'' DeLoach said, ''can estimate accurately the severity of the coming fall fire season. The Georgia Forestry Commission believes, however, that preparedness is the best method of attack; and with that thought in mind, we are expending every effort to insure. that the latest, most effecttive fire- fighting equipment available is in the hands of County Forestry Units when the fall fire season begin~.''
DeLoach explained that a few Units, particularly those which have added Forestry Units since July 1, still are awaiting arrival of equipment. He said the Commission has purchased this equipment, and personnel at the Georgia Fnrestry Commission Warehouse,

Dry Branch, are busy converting ~he equipment for wildfire fight-
Ing use.

''The No. 1 activity at the warehouse,'' he said, ''now consists of converting this material, and vehicles and equipment are being rushed to the counties as rapidly as they are completed.''

The Forestry Commission leader pointed out addition of 20 new counties since July l, to the ranks of those having organized forest protection would ''help immeasurably'' in cutting down Georgia's annual wildfire loss.
''We have found,'' he said, ''that wildfire loss in protected counties is about four times less than that in unprotected counties. The Commission's objective, however, consists of far more than merely cutting down statewide loss. We want, above all, to prevent forest fires.

''We want also continue cutting

,'' he down

osnaitdh~

''to dam-

eagf~eicfrioemnt

each eq

uwipimldenfitrem. anMneodderbn~

skilled, hard- fighting County

Forestry Unit personnel each

individual wildfire.''

' 'Last year, '' Deloach added,

''that number was reduced from

30.24 acres average loss from each

wildfire on protected land to

22. 53 acres. ' '

1be State Forester said that

cooperation of the public in noti-

fying Rangers and Foresters of

wildfir~s was, to a large extent,

responsible for the above 7. 71

reduction per acre during the

space of 12 month~.

''That same cooperation,' ' he declared, ''will be needed more than ever during this fall fire season. Woodlands already are tinder-dry from one of the dryest summers in many years, and as the trees take on fall and winter dormancy, they become less and less res.ist.ant to fire.''

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GEORGIA FORESTRY

ROW UPON ROW- Typical of the scientific methods and detailed planning which contributed toward Georgia's high ranking position a100ng Southern states in seedling production are the operations which go on ~t tbts ~Davisboro nursery. Two othP.r Georgia For-

estry Commission nurseries, Herty, at Albany, and Flowery Branrb, help produce the millions of forest seedlings which annually are set out in this state by farmers , landowner& and industrial firms.

Georgia Ranks Second In Seedlings

Distributed From State Nurseries

lieorg1a .tores try Commission nurseries ranked second among southern states in the 1950-' 51 production of forest seedlings.
W. C.- Hamnerle, Forester, Southern Pine Association, which recently completed a seedling production survey of 12 Southern states, reported Georgia's ranking and said the No. 1 pos1 tion went to Louisiana, which produced 37, 204_ 750 seedlings.
James H. Hill, Assistant Direct<?r in O!.arge of Management, Georg1a Forestry Commission, explained the Commission.nurseries had hoped to surpass or exceed the previous year's record production of 45 million seedlings, but poo: ~ermination of seeds was respons1ble for the 35 million total.
Production at Georgia's three state nurseries totaled25,311,266 seedlings.
South Carolina, with a 1950-'51 production of 20,615,315 forest seedlings ranked third place in t he Southern Pine Association s ur vey , while Texas' 17,678,910 figure placed that state in fourth pl ace.

Mississippi, with its 17,632 seedling production, and Florida, with its 16,525,255 figure followed. Arkansas barely nosed out Alabama for seventh place, with 13,076,550 seedlings produced in Arkansas state nursery and 13, 074,42~ produced in Alabama's nurser1es.
Other states and their state nursery forest seedling production were North Carolina, 8,639, 000; Virginia, 4,213,475; Oklahoma, 2, 260, 000; and Tennessee, 1,563,475.
Figures were compiled by the Southern Pine Association, New Or leans, and supplied by Forestry Departments and Commissions i.n each of the states.
Hill ~aid a recurrence of poor germination and a scarcity of good seed this year has resulted in an anticipated production of only 26 million seedlings for the 1951-'52 season.
' 'With less seedlings on hand than usual,'' Hill said, 'we are advising farmers and landowners to place their orders now before the supply is exhausted. Several million seedlings already have been ordered, and we're t.aking

orders on a 'first come-first served' basis until our supply runs out.
Order blanks may be obtained from County Foresters or Rangers, County Agents, Soil Conservationists, or from the Atlanta office of the Commis~ioh.
"Seed"l"ings Ready for Lifting"

OCTOBER , 1951

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Recent personnel changes in the Georgia Forestry Conmissi.on ~n clude appointment of two Distnct. Foresters and transter of one District Forester to another area.
Appo1ntments and .transfers f?llowed the resignat1on of two D1strict Foresters, J. E. Phillips, of the Sixth Dis-trict, and M. E. Nixon, of the Eighth District.
Former Fourth Distr1ct forester, George Lavinder, has been named District Forester at Waycross, according to announcement by Guy_ton DeLoach. Walter F. Stone, former Assistant District Forester in Olarge of Fire Control, District 1, has replaced Phillips at Macon; and CUrtis Barnes, for,. mer Assistant District Forester in charge ofFireControl, District 3, has become Fourth District ForPstP.r.
Newly appointed Assistant District Foresters include James Henson, former Fmanuel County Forester, whose headquarters are in District 1, and James Reid, fnnner Harris County Forester,
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Walter N. Stone
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George W. Lavinder

James Henson

James Reid

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GEORGIA FORESTRY

From Phone Poles To Fence Posts

Wood Preservation Industry Subject

Of Special Survey Made In Georgia

Georgia's highly important wood preservation industry was the subject of an extensive survey just completed by a Georgia Tech student of industrial management, James H. Hill, Jr.
Hill's survey, which focused the forestry spotlight on conservation of fares t products through treatment of wood with preservatives, received a statewide publicity recently when the results were described in the Georgia Department of Commerce Industrial Newsletter.
The survey, which covered 1948'49, showed that 8,400,000 board feet of lumber were treated with pres erva ti ves by eight corrrnercia 1 pressure-treating plants in the
State. Other t1mber products ~reated during that period were

1, 400, 000 cross -ties, SUO, 000 poles, 400,000 cross arms, 300,000 linear feet of piling, 250,000 square yards of wood blocks, and 200,000 fence posts.
Those i terns required 12,750,000 gallons of preservative.
A prediction that the wood-preserving indus try was going to ''treat itself out of business'' was made by the manager of one of Georgia's commercial pressure plants. He predicted that treated timbers were so durable that annual demands for poles and crossties would eventually decline.
The survey, the Indus trial NewsLetter continued, established . that 70 percent of the. timber treated by the eight plants is Southern yellow pine, while the remainder is oak and mixed hard-

woods. For the most part, it 1s pressurized with domestic coaltar creosote, although three of the plants import some low residue creosote from Great Britain and Belgium. Two coastal plants often receive orders for marine piling.
All of these pressure plants in
Georgia do a large out-of-state business, ranging from 50 per cent of total output in one plant to as much as 90 per cent in another. Due to the steady requirements of railroads and public utilities for preserved wood, the business is relatively stable. The railroads must replace about four per cent of their cross-ties
annually, according to Hill.
Some of them buy treated ties outright, while others purchase un trea terl ties ~nd ship them to

-.RE POLES FOR Sounl' S EXPANSIO'<i-A charge of freshly-creosoted Southern Pine poles leaves the treating

cylinder at the Southern Wood Preserving Company's East Point plant.

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SEASONING -Stocks of SouUaem Pine poles air-season 011 the Southern Wood Preserving Company yard before preservatJ. ve treatment wi til creosote. The poles are

macb\ned neeled tri~ed and smoothed, and ~~on trol ed au-seasoning' is now. employeCI. to redUce time and hazards of natural air-seasoning.

the preserving plants for seasoning and treating. Because ~he seasoning period f.or oak t1es
prior to treatment 1s from 12 to 14 months, many railroads place
orders two years in advance of
their needs.
Although power and telephone poles must be replaced at approximately the same rate as crossties, the poles are Southern yellow pine, which may be seaso~ed in three months, or even dr1ed
sufficiently within 18 hours by
the steam-and-vacuum method, prior to treatment. Thus, the utility companies may purchase poles by the year or as their needs arise, which results in a fluctuating market. Ole treating plant finds the market for poles definitely seasonal, because few poles are set in the Northern part of the country during the severe winter months.
Next to the pressure plants, re-
ports Hi 11, the mast important
group of wood preservers are the numberous open vats t~roughout the State, which restrict their business largely to treating

fence posts, s1gn posts ~nd lumber. A list of 112 operatlng vats was obtained from county agents in Georgia, located principally in the central and southern regions since the abundance of durable black locust in the northern section reduces the market ,for treated pine posts in that area.

The open vat plants can be gen-

erally classified in.to three

sub-groups: cooperat1ve vats,

and private vats. Except for two

or are

t

horpeeer~tethde

cooperative plants by vocational agri-

cultural units which are attached

to various high schools over the

State.

They are cooperative in that the
farmers may make use of the vats
for treating timbers, provided they pay the cost of ' the preser-
vatives used. These vats, most of them about the same size, re-
port their output each year to
the State Board of Education.
Annual reports of the Board showed
that in the fiscal year 1948-'49
these vats treated a total of
168,152 fence posts, while in the
previous fiscal year they treated
384, 746 pasts. The year 1947

proved to be an unusually productive year for the enUre woodpreserving indus try.
The few cooperative vats which are not connected with vocational units are sponsored by county farm bureaus, which sell stock to 60 or 70 local farmers and purchase a vat with the income. Fence posts are subsequently treated at cost, plus a small percentage to 1iquidate the stock.
lhe county vats are operated by the various county farms, chiefly for treating bridge timber in maintenance of county-owned bridges.
ln addition to the tree groups discussed, there are si}( vat plants in Georgia that cannot be placed in a category. Two are operated by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The State Highway ~ partment has two, mainly fbr maintenance work. Another is operated by the State Exper~ent Station for its own use, while the University of Georgia owns an exper~ental plant of two vats,
in which various types of pres e r vat i v e s a r e employed.

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GEORGIA FORESTRY

Foresters And Rangers In The News

Praise in print for those who are following carefully the Georgia Forestry Commission's advice for preventing woods fires is advocated byTiftCounty Forester, John Harrison.
Here's a sample, taken from Harrison's weekly column in the Tifton Gazette, of how the Forester highlights good forestry methods in his county:
''If everyone,'' the article declared, ''followed the example of brush burning that was given by Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Webb, Lemon Webb, and Hugh Webb in clearing hardwoods and brush from a tract of Dr. Webb's land, Tift County would have the lowest per cent in Georgia. Lemon and Hugh, both World War II veterans and living near Onega, had a disc plowed firebreak several feet wide com-

pletely around the area. Fire was backed against the wind. I think. all concerned should be commended for taking precan tions to keep the fire under control.''
Haralson County's Forestry Urnt, second youngest Unit in the State, already is receiving bouquets for its work. Following is a letter to the editor printed in the Haralson County Tribune:
''I was burning a sawdust pile on my farm. Everything was so dry the fire got beyond control and was spreading very rapidly. I han start.ed over t.o fight the

PinE MT TOWER


'lOWER SIGN- Ranger James J. Carter, of the Polk County Forestry Unit, points out one of the newest phases of the Unit's I. & E. programsigns for the lookout towers. Polk County Forestry Unit last month
scored a ''first'' in publicity annals. Polk was the first Georgia county in which a daily newspaper issued a Keep Green edition.

fire with a pine top when the Haralson. County Ranger, Troy ~loy~, and his assistant, C. W. ~oldw, ~ppeared with fire fightmg eqtnpment and had the fire .')Ut within 10 minutes.
''Otherwise the fire could have gotten beyond my control anc burned over a large portion of my woods and pasture which would have caused me a lot of damage. I am for the Haralson County Forestry Uriit and pledge my support 100 per cent . ''
Signed H. L. Summerlin.
Prompt action on a forest fire by E. P. Eubanks, Coweta County Ranger, recently resulted in the following letter to the Coweta County Board of Commissioners:
''I wish to take this opportunity to comend one of the County's Forest Protection Units, headed by Mr. E. P. Eubanks, Jr.
''On Saturday, September 8th, I saw the Uriit in action and it was through the prompt response and efficient handling by this Unit that a bad fire was averted on mv property, as well as that of the ad1o1n1ng landowners.
''As a tax payer in our fine County, I also wish to express to you my appreciation for the fine job the County is doing in maintaining this service. To me, it is one of the best services rendered by the County and I believe that all the tax payers heartily concur with the tax money being spent on such a project.
''As stated, I feel that Mr. Eu-
banks should be cO!tlllended on the excellent manner in which he handles the Unit.''
Signed, T. E. Arnold,
Palmetto, Ga.

OCTOBER, 1951

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RALLY DAY PARADE - Barrow County Forestry Unit's equipment was supplemented at Winder's recent Rally

Oay Parade by Cherokee County's truck, tractor, aod suprP-ssion plow provided b.v that county's Unit.

Last month Barrow County's Forestry Unit participated in the Winder _Rally Day Parade. The lhit' s jeep, equipped with fire fighting tools plus truck and tl!actor with suppression plow which was brought over from Cherokee County formed part of the parade.
Six 4-H Club boys distributed copies of the Georgia Forestry Conmission pamphlet, "You
Can Help Stop Wildfires," among
the crowd of 5, 000 persons. Hill's headquarters address and phone number were stamped an each pamphlet.
Five 4-H boys rode the vehicles, each of them equipped with fire fighting tool.
In connection with Meriweather County's initial ''Agriculture Day,'' R. Wayne Manning, Forester for the Meriweather County Forestry Unit, displayed a six paqel management exhibit on the Greenville court square, where the event was held, September 12.

DeKalb County Forester Robert F. DuLaney this fall is calling attention to the devastating effects of forest fires in his county by posting 8~ by 11 inch mimeographed notices around the perimeter of burned areas. The notices read, ''It's a Shame What Can Happen from Just One Small Flame.'' The notice requests that forest fires be reported and gives the Forester's name and unit headquarters telephone number.
Pierce ::- County Forest Ranger Roswell C. James is making a concerted effort this fall to insure that the public reports uncontrolled woods fires. He reminded Pierce citizens, via the pages of the Blackshear Times, that they may call his headquarters collect to report wildfires. The news article urged citizens to become ''fire conscious'' and to report promptly any fires destroying or threa"tening woods. Names of.Uni t rersonnel and their telephone numbers were contained in the story.

' 'These notices, ' ' said DuLaney, ''are put up as soon after the fire is under control as possible. Even though the signs are mimeographed on ordinary white, writing paper, which certainly is not made to withstand any sort of weather conditions, we find the notices stay legible during the time it takes a protective coating of green underbrush to cover the blackened, scarred earth.''
Dade County Ranger J.C. Pace has enlisted the support of his county's school bus drivers in the Georgia Forestry Association's $1,000 fire prevent1on contest.
Pace's Contest Committee pointed out that bus dri~ers will be able to observe W1ldfires as they drive along their routes and to report the fires to the RaTJger.
Memb~rs of the 4-H Club also will report fires. The committee also plans to issue regular "reports on the number of fireless days since the contest began on July l.

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GEORGIA FORESTRY

Revitalization of the Naval St<;>res ,indu~try, an industry in wh1ch ~rg1a plays the leading

role, ~s featured in the Sept-

ember. 1ssue of American Forests

maga~me, publication of The Am~r1can Forestry Association.

Wntten by EugeneF.GrenekerJr.,

of Valdosta, the article, ''Out

of the Cracker Barrel'', reveals

how the gum turpentine almost defunct in the

1i9n3d0us,sthrya~

bec~me one of the most important

agncultural enterprises of the ~outh and figures prominently in

1ts economv.

The author, editor of the Amer-

ican Turpentine Farmers Associa-

tion's Journal, tells how the

AT-FA group, formed in 1936 with

headquarters been a prime

ifnorcVe ailndosttha~'

has face

lifting of tuprentining. Results

of the efforts of these turpentine

farmers is e~ident in the up-to-

date product1on and merchandising

techn1ques which they have deve-

l<;>ped or adopted to supplant an-

t1quated methods.

Tribute is paid the leadership of Judge Harley Langdale, Valdosta, who has served as president

At present there profitably-operated

dairsetilmloadteiron~

plants for turpentine and rosin

dotting Georgia, Florida, Ala-

b~a, Mississippi and the Caro-

11nas.

Half of the worlds supply of

turpentine is produced inGeorgia.

The State also produces 75 per

cent of the nation's turpentine.

of the AT-FA group since its in-

~eption. AT-FA campaigns have

mcluded creating a popular de-

man~ for gum t~rpentine, spon-

sor1ng an act1ve conservation

program and working for a price

supoort.

Middle Georgia
Youths Receive
Woods Training
Sixteen middle Georgia boys recently ~e~eived ifitensive forestry tra1nmg at a camp held at the Sibley Memorial 4-HClub Park eight miles northeast ofMilledgeville.
The :(uture tree farmers were guests of the Jeffreys-McElrath Manufacturing Company of Milledgeville and Macon. C. M. Everett and C.B. Jones, company foresters, conducted the timber growing demonstration and lecture.
Instruction covered surveying and tree identification. J. E. Phillips, of Macon, District Forester for the Beorgia Forestry Commission, spoke on forest fire control and demonstrated fire fighting equipment.
The camp activities also included tree planting and cruising marking timber.
J. E. McElrath, president of the sponsoring firm, and member of the Board of Corrmissioners, Georgia Forestry Corrmission, corrmen ted that this is the second year his company has sponsored such training.

Counties Join in Forestry Contest...

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In corrmenting on Contest activities in the various counties, Association officials particular ly complimented Wheeler County on its progress in carrying forward fire prevention work. More than 40 citizens of the county have been placed on the Contes~ Council and Committees. Groups that have been organized and are

''If the youngsters learn only the simple fundamentals of forestry and realize that timber is a crop, then we feel this effort is certainly in the public interest,'' McElrath declared.

Future tree growers attending the camp included:

~rry Moore, Gray; Robert La-

vender, Gordon; J. M. Doke, Gor-

don; Gayble Ricks, Jr., Dublin;

Doc Neumans, Gordon; Sidney Thom-

ason, MOnticello; Lanier Gingle,

Goggans; Ralph Carsan, Easton ton;

Buddy Dickson, Milledgeville

Dickie Miller, Duclin; Max Black:

will, Milledgeville; Jirrmy Crutch-

field, Gray; Bobby Miller, Mill-

edgeville; Jimmie Penington,

Haddock; and Raymond Parker

Milledgeville.

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functioning include the Indus-

trial, Youth Finding, and

EdLuacwa-tEiQnfn~rceFmaecntt-

Corrmittees. All sections of the

county are represented on the

comrrrrttees with the Negro popu-

lace being included. R. E. Tuten,

prominent resident and landowner

heads the fire prevention acti:

vities as Otairman of the Contest

Council.

Guyton DeLoach, Georgia Fores-

try that

Corrmission Di all residents

rect and

oFr~resutregresd

and Rangers of competing counties,

go even further than this in en-

listing aid in the prevention

work. He stressed the fact that

''the citizens of the counties

themselves must plan, initiate

and carry out the prevention

activitie~,:' and he suggested

that add1t1onal committees be

s~t up for publicity, demonstra-

t1ons, and for ''trouble-shoot-

ing'' prevention work. The

''tro~ble-shooting'' group was

explamed as one which stood pre-

pared to go into a specific area

and carry on concentrated pre-

vention activities when there is

an outbreak, or threatened out-

break of a number of fmres. This

g:oup would be prepared and eq-

U1ped to present corrmunity pro-

grams, dis tribute literature

and make personal contacts.

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OCTOBER , 1951

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Lumber dealers from throughout the Southeast will gather in Atlanta Oct. 15-16 for the fall meeting of the Southeastern Lumbermen's Club.
Official opening of the session will be at 6:30p.m., at the Biltmore Hotel, with refreshments being served in the club's hospitality room.

FIRE SEASON . . . .

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He urged each c1t1zen to learn the telephone number of his County Forestry Unit, both in order to notify the County Forester or Ranger of fires and to check on whether they have selected a safe day for brush-burning operations. (Many wildfires in Georgia during the previous season were caused by brush-burning on ''high fire danger'' days.)
The Director asked that those persons in unprotected <;ounties form their own volunteer fire fighting groups. He s'aid the Georgia Forestry Commission would send emergency equipment to unprotected counties ''whenever possible,'' but pointed out 54 counties still are unprotected.
''Even with County Forestry Units and with volunteer groups at a maximum efficiency; as we plan them to be this fall and winter,'' DeLoach said, ''our annual fire loss would be much greater than it is, were it not for the cooperation of the public in preventing and suppressing fires.''
He reported that carelessness ~nd incendarism still stand at the top as causes of forest fires in Georgi~, and said that although the public's aid in fire prevention was becoming more noticable ec:.ch year, ''we need more and more citizens cooperating.''

FIRE KIUS LimE TREES TOO - T. M. StriCKland, Baldwin County Forest Ranger, examines Loblolly Pine seedling killed in recent woods fire in his county. Behind Strickland is seen jeep plowed firebreak which
stopped raging flames.

Personnel Olanges Announce d...

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whose headquarters are in District 10. Both Henson and Reid will be Assistant District Foresters in Charge of Management.
Phillips, was one of the most experienced members of the Commission, both from the standpoint of years of service and varied positions held. He joined the Commission in 1937 and filled AssistantDistrict Forester and
District Forester posts until 1?42, when he left for employment w1th the Georgia Extension Service. Phillips returned to the Commission in 1947 as Assistant
Director in Charge of Fire Control, and in 1948 requested and
was granted a transfer to the position of Sixth District Forester.
~i~on has served with the Comm1ss1on as District Forester at Waycross since May 1949. Prior to that time he was Logging Superintendent for Tidewater Plywood

Company, and his additional experience included service as a County Forest Ranger, Soil Conservation Service Forester, and a. Technician, U. S. FQrest SerV1ce.
In announcing the resignations and new appointments, Commission Direc~or Guyton DeLoach highly comphmented the work and performance of duties of both Phillips and Nixon and expressed regret at losing their services.
At the same time DeLoach ex-
pressed gratification that experienced and well qualified replacements were available to fill the vacancies created. ' Lavinder, Stone, and Barnes are h~g~ly gualified for the respons1b1l1t1es and duties that their new positions will bring,'' stated DeLoach, ' and we feel that the Districts into which these men are going will continue to progress under their able leadership.''

Georgia Forestry

Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Atlanta, Geor&ta.

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PREVENT WOODS FIRES!

dr. Donald J. Heddell, Dean School of Forestry University of Georgia .il. thens, Georgia