Georgia forestry, Vol. 5, no. 3 (Mar. 1952)

GEORG I A FORESTRY

CJitorial Reforestation Disproves Dire

Forestry Units Effect S avings 1920 Prediction

(From the Bulloch Herald)

We here in Statesboro are hardly aware of them. We pass the old airbase and see a radio transmitter aerial sticking up through the trees and we may wonder who has such a high aerial, but that's as far as we v.onder.
But the farmers in the county those with \\Oodlands, with timber - are keenly aware of them. They recognize them as one of the county's JOOst valuable servic~ groups.
The Bulloch county fire department, they might be called. They are the &lloch County Forestry Unit of the Georgia Forestry Commission. Headed by J. W. Roberts, the group uncludes, T. A. Dominy, Carl Chester, and W. A. Bird, patrolmen; Mrs. Pauline Chester, R. R. Ellis, and Etna F. Bird, fire tower watchers; Reggie Dick-

erson, 1n charge of firebreak eq1npment; and Mrs. Randolph Dickerson, dispatcher.
That this group means thousands of dollars saved in &lloch county is indicated by the unit's record from July l, 1951, to January 30, 1952.
With the period a very dry one, only 28 wildfires broke out, burning only 160 acres.
During the same period :j..n 195051, the unit suppressed 38 fires with only 300 acres burned.
Mr. Roberts states that the citizens ctfBulloch county deserve all the credit for this fine record. The landowners, naval stores \\Orkers, motorists - all have a hand in the business of saving our county' s woodlands .
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GEORGIA FORESTRY

Vol. 5

March, 1952

No. 3

Published Monthly by the

GEORGIA FORESTRY COl\11\IISSION, State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia. Guyton DeLoach, Director

Members, Board of Commissioners:

G. Philip Morgan, Chairman...........................................................~...................................Savannah

John M. McElrath.....~~Macon

K. S. Varn....................................Waycross

C. M. Jordan, Jr...............................Alamo H. 0. Cummings............Donalsonville

Georgia Forestry is entered as second-class matter at the Post Office under the Act of August 24, 1912. Member of t he Georgia Press Association.
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Betty Andrews

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DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION:

DISTRICT I-P. 0. Box 268, Statesboro

DISTRICT VI-Mayfair Hall

Milledgeville

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DISTRICT li-P. 0. Box 122, Camilla
DISTRIC~ III-P. 0. Box 169, Amencus

DISTRICT VII-West Building

Rome

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DISTRICT VII I-P. 0. Box 811, Waycross

DISTRICT IV- P. 0 . Box 333, Newnan

DISTRICT IX- P. 0. Box 416, Ga i n e s vill e

DI STRICT X-P. 0. Box 302, Washington

(From the Waycross Journal Herald)
Forestry in Ware County faces a bright future in '52.
With sawmills hurnrni.ng a merry tune, with additional pulpmills slated to open during the next 12 months, and with an ever- increasing demand for the products of our forestlands, Ware County 'tree farmers'' may well liken their green woodlands to ''money in the bank."
We in this area are fortunate in that we reside in a state noted nationwide both for its timber resources and the manner in which it is constantly strengthening these resources. We have indeed travelled far from the day in 1920 when eminent forest authorities predicted all Georgia's merchantable timber would be completely cut away
The fallacv of this prediction may be seen in the fact that today Georg1a' s annual timber crop 1s worth more than her combined cotton and tobacco yields, that half the world's naval stores come from our state, and that Georgia leads the entire South in pulpwood production.
l'tlore than 4000 different products are derived from the wood grown in Georgia' s forests. Trees and science comoine to give us many of the things we use daily in industry, national defense, business and home life.
Without a full supply of readily available forest products our daily lives would be greatly changed, our standard of living lowered, our national security threatened. Primary among the woodland products are those pictured in the illustration from a poster prepared for school use by American Forest Products Industries, Inc:

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MARCH, 1952

e.M.J~ Fores try Units Fight

Rena,md. <Jo. Extensive Wildfires

ea~4io.n
C. M. Jordan , Jr., Alamo, has been reappointed by the Governor to the Georgia Forestry Board of Commissioners for a seven year term effective February 24. Members of the present Board were appointed January 1, 1949 for varying terms of three, four, five, six and seven years. Their successors will serve seven year
teuns~
Comms.sioner Jordan has been active in fares try circles for many years. He was associated with his father, the late C. M. Jordan, in an extensive reforestation program.

Carelessness in debris burning accounted for a large number of forest fires experienced in Georgia's most serious wildfire ' 'flareup' ' of the 1951-' 52 forest fire season last month, according to Guyton Deloach, Director, Georgia Forestry Commission.
Unti 1 that period, he explained, heavy rains, alert forest fire prevention activities on the part of the Commission's 105 Rangers and Foresters had resulted in only moderate losses from woods wildfires.
''This season's first serious epidemic of forest fires,' Deloach related, ''came when the heavy rains we hadenj oyed earlier in the year ceased. Several days of Class 4 fire danger days followed, and despite 24-hour-a-day vigilance on the part of our Rangers and Foresters, the situation started to become critical.' '

Moving quickly to keep forest fire losses to a minimum, Deloach dispatched emergency crews with special heavy fire suppression equipment from their Macon headquarters, site of theCommission's emergency fire equipment station, to the northern part of the state, where fire danger was the highest.
Meanwhile, high wwds were fanning flames already under way, and weary crews of County Forestry Units, some of whom were on the fire-line for 48 hours at a stretch, extinguished one wildfire onlv to move to another.
Radio stations and newspapers carne to the aid of the firefighters, issuing appeals to the public to stop all unnecessary trash and brush burning, to be especially careful with cigarets and matches in or near the woods,
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AI R PATP~L JOINS FIRE FI GHTING FORCES - Fi r e investigators now have an aeri al ally in work to capture fire law offenders, and fire fight-
ing ground crews are aided by the detection features of tne plane which is ,operated by the Georgia Forestry Commission. Here, Jenkins
County Ranger Elza Clifton checl\S iJy two-way radio with Pilot D.V. Francis.

C. ~l. Jordan, Jr.
l~eappointed to Board
The Commissioner is a member of the Wheeler County Forestry board and played an important part in organizing that county's Forestry Unit. He is a member of the American Turpentine Farmers Association and the Forest Farmers Association.
The Forestry Commission is composed of five members who are appointed by the Governor and confirmed by theSenate. Three of the appointees must be t1mber landowners while the remaining tv.o must be fares t products manufacturers or processors or their representatives.

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Forest Fire Laws

Careless Woods Burner

Guilty of Misdemeanor

The Georgia Forestry Commission's strengthened law enforcement forces are continuing and intensifying the drive on malicious and careless woods burners. Enforcerrent of the state's forest fire laws is receiving increased emphasis now that Georgia is in the year's most dangerous forest fire season.
Recently a man was arrested in Emanuel County on charges of setting 14 fires in one night. Any person who sets woods afire is guilty of a felony, according to Georgia law, because he wilfully started a fire without permission of the owner. Persons found guilty can be sent to the state penitentiary for from one to two years.
I'Many 1andowners, , , sa1.d Guyton DeLoach, Director, Georgia Forestry Commission, ''do not realize that they are guilty of a misdemeanor if they allow fire to spread from their property to that

of another. If a person wants to burn on his own land, he may do so, but first he is r equired to notify all neighboring landowners in case the fire should get out of control. This warning should be given not later than 24 hours before the contemplated burning.
'It is the landowner's responsibility,'' the director adds, to control his burning. He must make a firebreak around the area to be burned. It matters not whether the person intended or did not intend for the fire to get away. He still is guilty of a misdemeanor. Intention is not a factor in conviction for a misdemeanor. ' '
In investigation procedures to determine the cause of a fire
the County Ranger or Foreste~
conducts the preliminary groundwork. If he finds that the case indicates negligence or wilful intent, the case is turned over ~o t~e F?rest Fire Investigator 1n h1s D1strict.

FIREBUGS SOUGHT BY BLOODHOUNDS- Fire investigators are often aided by the keen senses of alert bloodhounds who are expert at tracking down fire law offenders . The bloodhound unit is under the supervision of First District Fire Investigator Manson McCrimmon, who is seen at right in the lower photo. Also shown are Trooper C. 0. Davoust, left, and at center the dog handier who cares for the ''canine cops.''

''Green Pine for Greenbacks Burned Pine for Setbacks,'' will
be the theme of Emanuel County's
seventh annualPineTree Festival April 25, Rev. Henry S. Brooks'
festival chairman, announced thi~
month.

Day long activities of the Festival will be designed to demonstrate the value of forest fire prevention to the welfare of Emanuel County. Swainsboro residents andmany persons from surrounding areas are expected to attend the gala observance. Colorful floats, pageants staged by Emanuel County students, and the day's climactic event - the crowning of the king r...1d queen of the Festiva: - will all seek to dramatize the importance of good forest management practices and the necessity of fire prevention methods to preserve valuable forest resources.

Committee rrembers and their

divisions are H. C. Irwin com-

mercial .floats, Mrs. Joan White

public speaking, concessions, Bob

Lawson W Dar ling,

ifllkoeas~'

paper, Maurice Boatright, school

float, Mrs. Jack Jenkins, pageant,

W. 0. Phillips, finance, Mr. t:.H.

Youngblood, pine arrangements,

R. H. Humphrey, judging, Frank

Davis, sports, Bobby Sasser, king,

queen, prince, princess,Grayson

Powell, parade bands, Wiley Pow-

ell. ~quare dance, Walter Lamb,

traff1c, Mrs. Howard S. Smith,

pub 1ic i ty, Grady Price, balloon event, Da~ius Brown, reception,

Ellis Boyd, t,ree farmer, L. F.

Bra~ford, parade, Jack Thompson,

r~d1o, Edward Schwabe, organiza-

tlonal floats,Leon Ray, Pine tree

decorations, William H. Black,

exhibits, Dr. B~ankenship, Slng-

ing convention, Tom ~hrtin, flag

decorations, Ed Durden, platform,

Ralph Smith, Jr. Pine tree ball,

Jack Wisely, public address sys-

tem, Mirtie Smith, talent, Darwin

Womack, festival prizes, and

Mrs. Bur ley Page, Farm Bureau

queen.

MARCH, 1952

Bo.11 gco.uJJ. Re~ ,q~
~ed~ B'f dJOI/..e4t dJi~t,e

One -hundred Boy Scouts, all rrembers of the Georgia-Carolina Council, recently undertook a valuable reforestation project in Richmond County.
The group oi Scouts, representing
15 counties of Georgia and South
Carolina, were supervised by Richmond County Forester, John E. Anderson, and Miles Koger, Assistant District Forester in r.harge of Fire Control, District 10 ,.in planting 5, 000 seedlings on the Linwood Hayne property, which had been blackened by the devastating flames of a forest fire a few years ago .

forestry program. As one pnase of their excursion, the Scouts viewed three Georgia Forestry Commission films stressing the need for such projects as their own.
Council rremhers plan eventually to reforest all of the Hayne property which was damaged by fire.

T"IS IS HOW ITS DONE, BOYS - -

Richmond County Fores t er John

Anderson holds the pine seedling

while R. Miles Koger wields the

dibble and ooservant Scouts watch

the hand planting. Lat er the boys

planted 5

seedlit

During the fire trees from 8 to 10 inches in diameter were destroyed. The Scouts' endeavor represents the first attempt to reforest the area, with the project being carried out as part of a three-year conservation program.

Jerry Skinner was in charge of the carrp while the Georgia Forestry Commission supervised the

WHAT, NO POPCORN! - Shown uelow are Scouts viewing one of the three

forestry films shown by Richmond County Forester John Anderson and

Assista.nt District Forester Miles S. Koger during the week-end fores-

try camp.

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MAK E MINE \VELL DONE - Scouts of Mi lien Troop 14 gatt1er round the campfire to roas t a weiner or two, swap some tall tales and sing some favorite tunes at a li gnter moment during their conservation project excursion, as Joe Brinson, assistant Scoutmas te r , suoervises.
Ko ger lauded t h e work performed by t he Scouts and said the boys ' activi ties indicated "a gratifying show of interest, not on l y in reforestation, but in the necessity for pr otecting our forests from the ravages of wi ld fire."
He added that since the reforestat ion project, other Scout groups have shown an interest in
similar proj ects.

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GEORG I A FORESTRY

Polk County 4-H Clubs

Stress Fire Prevention

Polk County Ranger James Carter is leadwg the County's 4-H Clubs in an all-out drive to prevent forest fires, and win the $1,000 Fire Prevention Contest. Carter is conducting a $150 fire prevention contest among the eight 4-H Clubs in the various communities of the County.
The Peek-Hightower Lumber Supply Company and the W. D. Trippe Lumber Company are sponsoring the contest. First prize is $75, second prize, $50, and third prize, ~25. Contest judging began January l and will end May 15. Jud-. ges will be selected from the personnel of Seventh District Fares try Units.
Purposes of the contest are to reduce fires in comparison with previous years and to focus public attention on the necessity

and value of an active fire prevention program, via use of poste rs, mov1es, and other media.
Each club adviser must contribute a scrapbook conta1n1ng clippings of his group's activities, a list of demonstrations conducted by his members and the number of members who have been active in the program, and the number of forest acres under 4-H superv1s1on.
Judging will be done on the basis of 100 points. Reduction of the number of fires in the community will count 30 points, educational programs stressing fire prevention, 30 points, scrapbook, 25 points, and posters, signs and slogans will constitute the remaining 15 points.

lla PaiJUJl ll,JA, Fire Ratings,

d/.Oil.e4t Ran~ Research Topic

Many of Georgia's forest fires today are being ''fought by air'' through the services of a centrally-operated Georgia Fares try C~m mission Air Patrol, which will cover the entire state.
Guyton DeLoach, Commission Director, announced contracting of s erV1ce of the Air Patrol and pointed out it is used not only as an aid in fighting forest fires, informing ground crews of the location of forest fire heads and flanks and of roads and paths leading to fire areas, but also in the prevention of wildfires and in the enforcement of fares fire laws.
D. V. Francis, of Tifton, w~o has been contracted to fly the au patrol, works closely with ta.ve::-
rnen in detecting blazes and not1-
fying ground crews of their ex-
istence.
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A forest fire control research program designed to determine better methods of ascertaining, relating, and properly using fire danger ratingshas been instituted by the University of Georgia School of Fares try in cooperation with the Georgia Forestry Com-
mission. The first phase of the program
has been a complete survey of the location and purposes of the Commission's 40 fire danger stations. Future plans call for establishing 40 more such stations and relocation of the present ones on sites where they will be most serviceable, according to study results.
G. Norman Bishop, Professor of Fares t Protection, University School of Fares try, heads the project. The findings of the research workers are expected to contribute greatly to the reduction of fire losses in counties under organized fire protection.

Officers and directors of the Georgia Forestry Association this month announced preliminary plans for the organization's twentyeighth annual meeting to be held May 15 and 16 at Radium Springs Inn near Albany.
Highlighting the 1952 meeting, according to Hugh Dobbs, Ass oc iation President, will be the awarding of a $1,000 cash prize to the winning county in the current ''Keep Georgia Forests Green'' fire prevention contest.
All landowners, fares t industry representatives, public officials, and persons interested in the vital part forest resources play in the economic security of the state are being urged by Association officials to attend.
Registration for the two-day sessions of practical discussions and debates begins the afternoon of the 15th, with an afternoon's field trip scheduled. The morning of the 16th, Dobbs will open the program with the President's address. B. M. Lufburrow will give his annual report.
Present officers of the Assoc iation in addition to Dobbs, are, Robert H. Rush, Hawkinsville, First Vice President, Harley Langdale, Jr., Second Vice-President, Valdosta, A. E. Pat ton, Treasurer, and B. M. Lufburrow, Executive Secretary.
The Board of Directors consists of Wallace Adams, Glenwood, T. W. Earle, Savannah, Hugh Dobbs, Atlanta, N. R. Harding, Macon, E. T. Hudson, Ellijay, A. R. Shirley, Valdosta, W. Kirk Sutlive, Savannah, R. H. White, Jr., Atlanta, and A. E. Willis, G<>inesville.

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MARCH , 1952

eJ/alJ, Pike
r1fuud~&t
dJ,cvun 'II#tiid
Two more counties, Hall and Pike, have signed agreements with the Georgi a Forestry Corrmiss ion to establish organized County Forestry Units July l.
Details on equipment and personnel for Pike County still were being worked out as Georgia Forestry went to press, and Curtis Barnes, District Forester, District 4, Georgia Forestry Commission, reeorted c c present plans call for a County Forestry Unit which the Fourth District can certainly be proud of. A total of
71,686 acres of Pike County's
area is in forestland, and we are planning an intensive forestry program for this area.''
Permanent personnel of the Hall County unit will be a County Forest Ranger and Assistant Ranger. A towerman-dispatcher will serve eight months and a fire crewman six rmnths during the most dangerous fire seasons of fall and spring. Suppression equiprrent will include a jeep with fire plow attachment, andone-half ton pickup truck with water pump, hose~ and hand .tools.
Two:way FM radios in the vehicles and towers will facilitate speedier action in fire suppression activities andcoordinationof efforts.
Organized fire protection has been proven successful in decreasing fire fosses according to Ninth District Forester Ollie Burtz. Many counties with Forestry Units are able to maintain records showing losses of less than one-half of one per cent of forest fires, while a year's record of losses in an unprotected county may reveal 20 per cent or more of the timberland destroyed by fire.

Increase In Hardwoods
Resource Survey Made

In Southwest Georgia

Results of a highly comprehensive Georgia Forest Resources Survey, made by the U. S. Forest E~perim~nt Station in cooperatwn w1th the Georgia Forestry Commission, the University of Georgia, Union Bag and Paper Corporation, and St. Regis Paper Company, were announced this month.
The results have been published in a recent booklet, Forest Sur-
vey Release No. 37, entitled
''Forest Statistics for Southwest
Georgia, 1951,'' by James F. Mc-
Cormack, Forester, Division of Forest Economics. The booklet is issued by the U. S. Forest Service and the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Ashville, N. C.
The survey group eventually will report on forest resources of the entire state, ant: work toward that goal is progressing steadily. The Southwest Georgia area, or Unit No. 2, was the first on which a formal report has been issued,

ar;td reports on_ the remaining Georg1a areas w1ll be released as they are completed.
One of the outstanding facts revealed in the recently completed survey was that the number of sound trees in the sapling, pole, and small saw-t1mber size classes
increased sharply during th~ 16
year period between surveys. This increase occurred in all
species groups and amounted to 75 per cent, or more than 300 million
-trees.
Another interesting fact brought out in the survey was that while the hardwood species group showed
a highly appreciable gain, 160
Per cmt for soft textured hardwood and 177 per cent for hard textured hardwoods, Pine trees
increased only 19" per cent.
Further evidence of a Pine decrease and a hardwood increase 1s
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FOR A BE'I'TER FORESTRY FUroRE- Hall county Commissioner, Joe Chandler, signs the contract bringing organized forest fire protection to Hall County as left to right, George Jordan, Harry Crow, fire investie:ator. and Ollie Burtz, Ninth District Forester look on.

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Editors Offered
Free Mats
Georgia editors now are being offered a new set of 28 ready-made ad mats emphasizing forest fire prevention methods, correct management practices, and the importance of our forest resources to the economic welfare of the state and nation. The mats are furnished free of charge to editors upon request to American Forest Products Industries, Inc.,
1319 Eighteenth St., N. W., Wash-
ington, D. C. Editors already
have been provided with 1952 Mat
Proof Books from which they can order direct.
Each ad may be secured. in several column widths, afford1ng a more flexible make-up treatment to

GEORGIA FORESTRY
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(!)I grua~ Ptn Meei

Featuring Southern forestry progress, sessions by committees, and talks by outstanding speakers, the annual meeting of the Southern Pine Association will be held in
c. New Orleans April 7-9, according
to H. Berckes, secretary-manager.
Among speakers who will headline the program at the Roosevelt Hotel are Dr. Arthur A. Smith, lecturer and writer on economics; Thurman Sensing, executive vicepresident of the Southern States Industrial Council, and Arthur A. Hood, editor of the American Lumberman. Other leaders will give talks on such subjects as forest conservation, lumber procurement, and wood recovery at sawmills.
E. 0. Lightsey ,, Association president, will.open the general session on Monday, April 7, when he gives his president's message. Sensing will speak on ''The South
of 1952," and Hoods' t~oic will
be ''Market Opportunities.''

FoUowing luncheon sessions by the SPA and the SP IC committees on Nominations and Resolutions, an industry-wide meeting will be held under the auspices of the Southern Pine Industry Committee. R. M. Eagle, chairman of SPIC, will preside at this afternoon session and will review SPIC activities.
Brig. Gen. A. W. Pence, ass1stant chief of engineers for m1litary supply and procurement, will give a statement to the group on l~~er procurement, followed by a statement from Robert N. Denham, former general counsel of the National Labor Helat10ns Board. An official from the Office of Price Stabilization also will address the meeting, and Berckes will talk on ''Legislative Pros-
pects for 1952.''
The April 8 morning session of subscribers will be centered around the theme, ''Progress of Private Forestry in the South."

editors. These ads are part1cularly designed for use by stores, banks, hotP.ls, and other businesses, as well as by forest products producers and salesmen.
The advertisements are easily adapted to inject local names, facts, and figures, thus appealing to particular communities through ''close to home'' phrasi ng. The AFP I suggests that t hose obtaining the ads use the state ''Keep Green'' emblem, which also is furnished free of charge, in mat form.

FFA Boys To Attend

1952 Camp At Rutledge

Seventy North Georgia members of the Future Farmers of America are exPected to attend the annual Georgia Boys' torestry summer camp at Camp Rutledge, Morgan
County, June 15-21, Commission
Director Guyton DeLoach announced this week.
Boys attending the camp will be chosen on the basis of their interest in forestry, so that those most genuinely interested will have the opportunity to receive specialized instruction from well qualified and experienced teachers.
Spans or ing the camp are five member firms of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association, Union Bag and Paper Corporation,

Savannah, the Macon Kraft Company, Macon; Brunswick Pulp and Paper Company, Brunswick; Gair Woodlands Corporation, Brunswick; and St. Mary's Kraft Corporation, St. Mary's. These firms pay all of the boys' expenses other than their transportation.
A roster of persons who will serve as advisors is now being composed. These instructors will
conduct lecture and demonstration periods especially designed to develop the campers' interests in forestry management and the necessity for forest protection and conservation. Supervisors will discuss the problems which foresters and rangers must encounter in their work, and will attempt to clarify them for their listeners.

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MARCH, 1952

Foresters And Rangers In The News

Seven 4-H Club members in Jones County have been given the opportunity to ''tree farm'' one acre of land as their project for the coming year. The Macon Kraft Company donated 1,000 seedlings to each of the boys. The young apprentice farmers will practice all the rules of good management and .strive to make their small plots examples of correct farming methods. The project was undertaken to give the boys valuable practical experience and furnish a forestry yardstick for the rest of the community.
Jones County Forester E. T. Carnes is assisting the boys in their tree planting venture. Those t.aking part are Jimmy PenningtonJom Bentley, Raymond Coulter, Tommy Davis, Dawson Gordon, Jr., Berry Moore, and Morgan Turk.
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Harrow County's Forestry Unit will soon move its headquarters to a site on the Monroe highway near the edge of Yargo Park. The Unit's 100-foot lookout tower also will be constructed on park property, and fire-fighting equipment will be stored in sheds furnished by the State Parks Department, according to Ranger W. J. Casey.
A special fire prevention program will be centered around the area fronting on the Monroe highway, which always has been a danger spot for forest fires. Drivers will view ''Keep Georgia Green'' .signs along thehighway cautioning them to do their part in the program to preserve state forests. Raymond C. Hill, Assistant District Forester, is working with the State Parks Department to carry out this program.

Pierce County Ranger R. C. James, and Troup County Forester Morris Tindall recently stressed the importance of forest fire prevention and the value of the state's timber resources in talks to civic organizations.
Tindall, in his speech to the Lagrange Kiwanis Club, noted the decrease in fire loss figures since the Troup County Forestry Unit was established in 1949. He also emphasized the progress made in increasing personnel and equipment since the Unit was first organized. Tindall supplemented his lecture with a film, ''Dead Out,'' a dramatic portrayal of the disasters caused by forest fires and the precautions which should be taken to prevent such tragedies.
James addressed the P. T. A. of the Main Street Grammar School in Baxley, stressing self-interest in conserving state forests. He also supplemented his discussion with forestry films.

S~10KEY IN TilE FlESH! - 'fwi,ggs County Forester Bill Murray holds a tantalizing tidbit al.>ove the inquisitive nose of Smokey Bear, unofficial
mascot of his Forestry Unit. Smokey was taken from his native hal.>itat in the Altamaha river swamps and is now a veteran memlJer of the 11\' iggs Unit, serving in teaching fire prevention to children, tourists and other county residents.

Ranger J. C. Pace and Mrs. Catherine C. Morrison, editor of the Dade County Times, are collaborating on weekly publication of a special forestry feature written by prominent local residents. The features appear on the front page with an illustrated head and boost fire prevention and suppression and forest management work in the county.
The first three articles printed in the series were, ''Dade's Forests of Yesteryear and Today , '' by Jules A. Case, ''Take Care of the Forest," by LarkinS. Blake, and ''The Future of the Forests,' ' by C. Raymond Street.

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GEORGIA FORESTRY

University Nursery

Again In Operation

The University of Georgia's Forestry School Nursery is back in operation for the first time s ince 1942 when wartime conditions forced its closure. Guyton DeLoach, Director, Georgia Forestry Commission, and Dr. W. A. CampbelL U. S. Division of Forest Pathology, were responsible for reacti vatmg the nursery last year as a research station and a practical training center for forestry students .
Since May of 1951 the Georgia Forestry Commission has supervised the rehabilitation of the old nursery site which was first established in 1916 on land now occupied by the stadium.
Last ~ay, .James H. Hill, Assistant Director, Management and Nursery, Georgia Fares try Commission, and staff members of the Davisboro Nursery supervised the planting of seedlin_gs. All equipment used to modernize the nursery site was furnished by the Commission,including the portable irrigation equipment which was used to improve tne water system. The

old nursery buildmg was converted by the students into a rustic lodge where five of them are now living.
During ~he past year improvement proJects have been given foremost attention since much was needed to be done on the old site. At~ention is now being turned to us1ng.the nursery as a practical exper1ence center for nursery management students and for research on such problems as weed c<.m trol, soil improvement, denS1ty of sowing, disease control, mulches, and fertilization in an attempt to remedy some of the farmer's problems. Specialized research is also being carried on by Dr. Campbell to learn more about the littleleaf disease of shortleaf pine.
Jn January,.a crop of seedlings including 160,000 Loblolly Pine, 25,000 Slash Pine, 27,000 Shortleaf Pine, 13,000 V/hite Pine, ll, 000 Arizona Cypress, and 6, 000 Red Cedar was lifted and sold to Georgia farmers.

Forestry v:as among the featured subjects at the 1952 meeting of the Association of Southern Agricultural Workers held in Atlanta during February.
Presiding at the fares try discussions were Guyton DeLoach, Director, Georgia Forestry Commission, C. Dorsey Dyer, Extension Forester, Tifton, Dean D. J. Weddell, University of Georgia School of Forestry, Athens, and I van R. Martin, Extension Forester, Auburn, Alabama. Problems of wood waste, water management, logging machinery, pulpwood and paper production, insect damage, and tree diseases were considered at the various meetings.
Floyd Cossitt and Carl Strauss of the U. S. Forest Service, who have just recently returned from Japan and Germany, gave 1nformative illustrated lectures on forestry methods and conditions 1n the two foreign countries.

S~OONTS GAIN FIRSniAND EXPERIENCE- University of Georgia Forestry school students are shown removing pine straw mulch at the school's nursers.

PINE SEEDLINGS AT UNIVERSITY ~URSEP.Y - Pictured
are beds of southern pine seedlings School of Forestry nursery.

MARCH , 1952

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Resource Survey Made In Southwest Georgi a . . . .

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seen in a survey chart showing change in area of forest types
from 1934 to 1951. Longleaf and Slash Pine showed a 350,000 acre
decrease, other Pine species a
50,000 acre decrease, yet bottom-
land hardwoods showed more than
a 300,000 acre increase. Lpland hardwoods showed a 25, 000 acre
increase, and Cypress and Tupelo combined to rise slightly above
the 100,000 acre mark.
. Nearly 98 percent of the forest land in the Southwest Georgia Unit is in the private ownership, the remainder being held by Federal, State, or county and municipal agencies. Farmers o.vn 85 per cent of the private forest acreage, and nearly all the forest land, according to the survey report, can be considered commercial in
character, since less than 100
acres are included in parks or other areas where timber cutting is not permitted.
Chief reason given for the shift from hardwood to pine was that of cutting practices used in harvesting timber. Where stands of pine are mixed with hardwoods or

cypress, the preferred Pine timber is often cut, leaving the less desirable species to occupy the
site.
Under resurvey standards, which divide the forest into types on the basis of cubic volume or number of stems, the Pine types still predominate, however, occupying 60 per cent of the area's forest land. Hardwood types, including hardwood-pine mixtures, occur on 1.1 million acres, or 37 per cent, and the cypress type occupies the remaining three per cent.
A definite increase in the number of smaller trees was noted, an increase undoubted!y due to a shift from old-growth ~o secondgro.vth conditions. Most of the change, however, was attributed to more intensive fire protect ion. (Fourteen of the 22 counties composing the Survey Unit No. 2 are under organized forest protection of the Georgia Forestry Coomission. This fact is also thought to account for the better cutting practices, reforestation, and better conservation practices in turpentining, which in turn brought about the increase m number of smaller trees.).

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When you' re in the \\Qods, thinkbefore you toss away that lighted cigarette. Think- before you burn o {f fields and woodlmds. Think before you burn your hedge rows. Think- before you burn dead trees and brush when you clean up new ground. Think -before _you leave a fire after a picnic, fishing trip, or camping-out trip. Think - before you burn 'off somebody else's woods in order to ''make the grass greener'' for your cattle.
The forestry unit is on duty 24
hours a day. Their equipment includes five fire-fighting trucks, fully equipped; t\\Q with two-way radios; two crawler tractors for firebreak construction; and three lookout towers for spotting fires.
This Forestry Unit is yours use it, for safety and profit.

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an~ to use a~tomobile ash trays wh1le trave.l bng on the highway.
. Lessening of high winds, rain 1n some areas, and the work of the 10~ County Forestry Units in battl1ng and suppressing the flames overcam~ ~he wildfire danger, and the cnt1cal period was over.
''This first serious wildfire flareup of the current forest fire season,'' said DeLoach," once again emphasized two highly 1rhportant facts. First, brush burning on dry, windy days is a highly dangerous activity. Farmers and landowners planning to burn debris should at all times notify their County Forester or Ranger of their intentions.''
''The second fact emphasized,'' the Director added, ''was that the \\Qrk shown by the men of these various County Forestrv Units was of the highest calibre."

MOTORISTS, TAKE HEED - This sign located in StephenS county on the Yonah Dam Road cautions motorists to beware the dangerous curve ahead as well as alerting tbem to tne need of fire prevention in wooded areas. P~ting of the sign was part of stephens County's efforts to carry out an extensive ' 'Keep Georgia Green' ' program and tp help the c:u rren t $1000 Keep Green Forest Fire Prevention contest. Area Forester c. N. Brightwell and Ranger owen J. Dean placed the signs.
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Forest fire investigators of the Georgia Forestry Coomiss ion are aided in tracking do.vn firebugs by the aerial firefighter, who, with a high powered aerial crurera, is able to photograph action of persons on the ground. Law enforcement men have hailed the air patrol as a ''great step ahead'' in bringing to justice those who set fire to the woods.
The air patrol will be utilized by District Foresters on the basis of greatest need.

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