baJ SJJI C3 --5" /M', ~ ~.~ - \ GENEftAL L1BftAftY JCT 10 1955 UN\VERSHY OF GiOOUl~ ANNUAL MEETING . GEO _JRESTRY { -I GEORG I A FORESTRY CJitorial Enforcement Of Fire Laws Urged To Protect Our Green Heritage (From the Cedartown Standard) Once again we have reports of fires and destruction. This time, of six fires, three'Set maliciously or resulted from causes that the i orest ranger cannot determine._ The rest were set through carelessness. It will only be through stern judgement by the courts that we will be able to teach the lessons of safety in regards to our prized forest lands. There is evidently no other way to show the people who cause this destruction what expensive damage they are causing to other people's property and to their own, in many cases, when these fires start. The one way to gain the respect of the person who deliberately breaks the law is to show that these laws are made to be respected and abided by, not to be flagrantly broken. We look to the courts of the land for help in this matter. Vol. 5 GEORGIA FORESTRY June, 1952 Published Monthly by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COl\11\IISSION, State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia. Guyton DeLoach, Director No.6 New Use For Turpentine (From the Atlanta constitution) Naval stores, one of Georgia's most important industries will get a boost as a result of work of Navy and Agriculture department chemists. A Washington report says thev have developed a new synthetic lubricant from turpentine which will provide oils for aircraft gas turbine engine lubrication, instrument oils and greases and hydraulic lubricating fluids. Without knowing the full extent of the possibilities, we venture to say that it will mean a new source of cash income from Georgia forests already one of the state's biggest sources of agricultural revenue. The Georgia pine already is the basis of vast development of synthetic fiber and paper industries. There was a time when naval stores was a major foundation of the economy of Georgia's pine country. In recent years, however, turpentine has run into increasing competition from other products. The new discovery could restore it to its former position as a leading cash producer for thousands of- people and mean more wealth from Georgia forest resources. 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 the Georgia Press Association. EDITOR...............................................................*.........*.........*.........*.....................................................R. E. Davis ASSOCIATE EDITORS______________________________________________________Robert Rutherford Betty Andrews * * * * DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COl\11\IISSION: DISTRICT I-P. 0. Box 268, Statesboro DISTRICT VI-Mayfair Hall, Milledgeville DISTRICT II-P. 0. Box 122, Camilla DISTRICT VII-West Building, Rome . DISTRICT III-P. 0. Box 169, Americus DISTRICT VIII-P. 0. Box 811, Waycross DISTRICT IV-P. 0. Box 333, Newnan DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416, Gainesville DISTRICT X-P. 0. Box 302, Washington Mrs. E. M. Harrington, vice chairman of Dodge County's Keep Green council, proudly accepts a $1,000 bill from Kirk Sutlive, f cnner Georgia Forestry Association president, on behalf of Dodge county for its triumph in the Association sponsored forest fire prevention contest. Charles Connaughton, Regional Forester, U.S. Forest Service, looks on. Dodge County was victorious over 71 other Georgia counties in gaining the coveted $1,000 awarded to the county showing the greatest progress in reducing forest fires through community eff rrt during the ras t year. 2 JUNE, 1952 Announcement Of $1~000 Contest Winner Highlights GFA Meeting Announcement of Dodge County as winner of the Ceorgia Forestry association's $1,000 Forest Fire Prevention Contest highlighted the group's 29th annual meeting at Radium Springs last month. Kirk Sutlive, past association president, presented the $1,000 bill to Mrs. E. M. Harrington, of Plainfield, vice-chairman of the Dodge County Keep ( reen Council. J. D. Beauchamp is Ranger of the Dodge County Forestry Unit. Julius G. Pierce is county ''Keep Creen'' chairman. Emanuel, Stephens, Terrell, and Bibb Counties were given certificates of distinguished ratings, and Bryan, Carocl.en, Dougherty, Colquitt , Polk, Crisp, and Upson Counties received certificates of honorable mention. More than 70 Ceorgia counties entered the contest, which was held to determine the county showing the greatest progress in reducing forest fires through community effort during the past year. Delegates to the 29th annual convention began the two-day meet M ~,, AL ON SPEAKERS' ROSTER- The speakers' roster, above photo, is highlighted by Hugh Dobbs, Association president, left; Governor Talmadge, center, and Guyton DeLoach, Director, Georgia Forestry Commission. with a field trip to the Herty Nursery and Potter Plantation where the first pines raised at the nursery were planted. Hugh W. Dobbs, Pres ideo t, Georgia Forestry Association, gave the opening address of the morning's session and B. M. Lufburrow, Executive Secretary, delivered his annual report. Governor Talmadge, addressing the group on ' 'Georgia, Its Past and Its Future in Forestry,'' cited the growth from 43 counties under organized forest protection when he took office in 1948 to the appr ~imately 120 counties which will be under protection in July. Pledging $1, 750,000 to C.eorgia' s forestry program for the next Continued On Page 10 ) CONVENTION SCENES - The Georgia Forestry Commission's 'numing Question'' exhibit, lower left photo, arouses interest at the Georgia Forestry Association convention as Terrell County Ranger J. C. Bowen, left; Terrell County Agent Frank McGill, center, and Terrell County Assistant county Agent - -1 ~ GR E~ ... . dP ~STStorA GREATER Eddie Reese I mk on. Scrapbook entries, lower right I photo, draw the attention of Ed Hamby, of Columbus, Assistant District Forester, Fire Control, District 3, and W. Hill Hosch, of Atlanta, Manager, Fann Industry Department, Trust Company of Georgia. 'l \ \ .\\ l \ WONDERS TO BEHOLD! - Students attending the fourday aerial-photo interpretation short course at the University of Georgia's School of Forestry gaze through stereoscopes as the rest of the class waits its tum. More than 40 foresters, geo- graphers and other in teres ted persons attended the four day aerial-photo interpretation short course held April 22-25 at the School of Forestry, Univer- sity of Georgia. The aerial photo curriculum was designed to teach the techniques of stereoscopy in reading aerial photographs. Sessions included a series of lectures on the basic principles of interpretation procedure, plus a laboratory session which concerned interpretation of BAQ{ TO THE CLASSROOM - Foresters from all over the state were present at the University of Georgia recently for an aerial-photo interpreta- tion course. Here they pose f()r the cameraman as they wait for a lecture session to begin. single photographs. Another session was devoted to a practice period in which ~he forestry ''students'' were 1ntroduced to the various tools of aerial -photo interpretation and received instructions in preparation of photos for inspection. Composing the teaching staff for the short course were Robert C. Aldrich, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, United States Forest Service , Asheville, North Carolina; James A. Barnes, Assistant Professor: of geography,, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; Archie E. Patterson, Professor of Forest Management, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; Merle C. Prunty, Jr., Professor of geography and Head of the department of Geography and Geology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; Robert H. Smith and A. 0. VU1nn, Aero Service Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; George W. Stanley, Forest Engineer, Kirby Lumber Corporation, Houston, Texas; and Wilbur Zelinsky, Assistant Professor of Geography, The University ofGeorgia, Athens, Georgia. 4 JUNE, 1952 Preliminary plans for the Georgia Forestry Commission's annual Training School, slated forJekyll Island in July, have been announced by Guyton DeLoach, Commission Director. District Foresters, Farm Foresters, County Rangers and Foresters, Law Enforcement, and Radio Communications personnel will attend. Emphasis on ''learning by doing," DeLoach said, will be even greater than at the 1951 camp. Classroom work will be held to a minimum, and for each hour of classroom instruction, a considerably longer period is planned in which Commission personnel will carry out actual practices described in the lecture room. Included among ''students'' will be the 18 foresters and rangers who will head new County Forestry Units scheduled to join protected forces of the Georgia Forestry Commission July 1. ''Men heading these counties, however," said the Director, ' 'will not be the only ones to FOREST MANAGEMENT- Commission personnel attending the 1951 . Ranger Training School learn of latest advances in forest manage:nent research from District Forester J. c. Turner Jr. Turner will be on the teaching staff of the 1952 school. benefit from the school's intensive tra1n1ng program. Advances in forest fire fighting techniques, woodland management work, and information and education act1v1t1es progress at such a rapid rate that we feel this an- nual instruction is a definite 'must' for the Commission personnel, both new and experienced.'' District Foresters also will serve as instructors for many of the courses. PROPER RADIO PROCEDURE - District Forester F. J. Pullen, second from left, standing, gives instruction at last year's Commission Training School on training a towerman in proper radio procedure and use of the alidade in locating forest fires. This topic will be stressed again at . -the 1952 Ranger Training School. .."-~.". ~ .~..... --:--,-. ,r- a -- 1" ~ c Forest fire fighting vehicles and equipment of all kinds, ranging from the simple rake and flap to massive bulldozers and tractors equipped with hydraulic plows will be ferried across to Jekyll Island from theBrunswick mainland to serve as demonstration equipment. ''Providing these vehicles at the school site," said DeLoach, ''also will go far in helping us teach one of the most important phases of the curriculum - preventive maintenance. We: have found that the Ranger or Forester who keeps his vehicles in topoperating condition is both better able to fight forest fires as well as to operate his Unit at a mini- mum cost to the taxpayers of his county.'' (Continued on Page 10 ) 5 GEORGIA FORESTRY Post Office Dies Spread F ire Prevention Story This year additional thousands of letters will carry the slogan of fire prevention through the cooperation of the following sponsors: Jesup and Wayne County Chamber of Corrnnerce, Jesup; Lions Club, Dalton; Kiwanis Club, Swainsboro; Citizens' of Carroll County, Carrollton; Claud Groover Inc, Toccoa; B.E. Pelham, Thomaston; and the Dodge County Optimist Club, Eastman. Last year the following sponsors made pa; sible the use of the dies in their communities, and use of these dies will continue: Chamber of Corrmerce, LaGrange, through W. F. Jarrell; R. H. Rush, Rush Lumber Company, Hawkinsville; Cecil E. Carroll through C. W. Phillips, Dublin; W. R. Turner, Cordele Sash, Door and Lumber Company, Cordele; W. A. Knox, Knox Corporation, Thomson; R. L. Griffith, Dixie Wood, Inc., Milledgeville; Balfour Lumber Company, Kirby-Evans Materials Company, Johnson Lumber and Manufacturing Company, and Deadle Lumber Company through T. A. Liefeld, Thomasville; Brunswick; Bannon Jones and the Walter H. Jones estate, Athens; and A. 0. Blackmar, Chief, Muscogee County Fire Department, Columbus. Seven additional c1t1es recently have inaugurated the use of fire prevention post office dies to spread the vital lesson of public responsibility in requcing forest fires. The cancellation dies bear the slogan 'Remember- Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires.'' Planting Program Discussed The need to effect a practical, long-range tree planting program in the South was the main subject of the recent Area Meetings of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association. The May sessions were held at the Bentley Hotel, Alexandria, Louisiana; Pine Tree Inn, Bogalusa, Louisiana; and the Ocean Forest Hotel, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. A meeting was also held June 5-6 at the George Vanderbilt Hotel, Asheville, North Carolina. Members from eleven Southern states participated in the discussion periods. Delegates were told of 18 mil- ( Continued On Page 10 ) WOODSBURNERS, BEWARE - Pluto Penny, registered bl mdhound, gives an admiring glance to her offspring, whi h will someday join a corps of elder (and more experienced) bloodhounds utilized daily by law enforcement officers of the Georgia Forestry Commission in tracking down those who set fire to valuable forest lands. . t .., . . ' ' . . . . . . . : .~~, ' ' ...... ' . . ' , -..;-- ' ' ' . .~~,. Bloodhounds have on many occassions been an important factor in bringing criminal woods burn- ers to justice. warehouseman cecil osborne holds the pup, and Joe Faulk watches Pluto Penney. Mother and offspring are in a kennel at the Georgia Forestry commission s Dry Branch warehouse . 6 JUNE, 1952 Cooperation Main Ingredient In Victory In Contest, Dodge County Citizens Say Recipe for winning Ceorgia' s $1!000 forest fire prevention pr1ze: Take one progressive, alert Georgia county. Take citizens of this county and mix well with spirit of community cooperation and realization of value of the forestland. Add over period of several months such colorful activities as parades, barbee res, special forestry weeks, speaking contests, and field trips. ''After that,'' relates Julius G. Pierce, Chairman of the Keep Georgia Green council of Dodge County, the winning county in the Association's $1,000 forest fire prevention contest, ''we sit back and wait and hope for the best.'' Here's the record of what Dodge County did to win the Georgia Forestry Association's $1,000 contest. ''We concentrated,'' said Pierce, ''an the idea that if we ever hoped to win the contest, the entire community had to participate. We realized the work of the Ranger, J. D. Beauchamp, and the half a dozen or so regular 'workhorses' of the community would be h1ghly valuable, but we know also we would need more than their efforts to win the prize.'' ''By the contest's end,'' said Mrs. E.M. Harrington," the Dodge County citizen who didn't know there was a $1,000 contest under way or who wasn't actively participating in the contest would have been hard to find.'' Pastors and Sunday School superintendents, FFA and 4-H Club boys, store owners and employees and bank workers all joined to help the forestry unit in an in tensive drive t o distribute for estry literature. Ear1y in November the community . held a Keep Dodge County ( reen Week, an event-filled week which included such events as a 20 float parade with $200 in prizes given to best school floats, publication of a Keep Dodge County Green issue by the Eastman Times-Journal, and a barbecue featuring speakers, and motion pictures. The Indus trial Committee, in cooperation with FFA, FHA and 4-H Clubs, sponsored a fire prevention contest of its own, with the winner gaining a trip to the Union Bag and Paper Company. FFA boys made speeches on fire prevention before many c1v1c clubs in the county and participated in a speaking contest on fire prevention. FFAboys also plowed firebreaks, fought forest fires, performed thinning operations, sent articles and essays on forestry to be published in the newspaper, set rut 11,000 Pine trees, gathered 10,000 bushels of pine cones, \r and contacted farmers on fire prevention activities . Members of the 4-H club performed equally outstanding work. By contest's end, each 4-H member had at least one poster pertaining to some phase of forestry set up in his home. The youths made speeches, gathered pine cones, planted seed lings, and wrote articles on forest fire prevention. Meanwhile, the Dodge County Fa;res try Unit c cntinued its usual in ttmation and education activities - activities which were given an even greater impetus than usual by the fact that the entire community was working with the unit on forest fire prevention. Ranger Beauchamp delivered 57 talks during tl}e contest period, distribnted more than 12,000 pieces of literature, "showed 14 films, submitted 62 news artie les which were published in crunty newspapers, and distributed forestry amts and movie shorts. #KcEE.',P\~GEEOR~NG;GT~RT;SI~CERERSS4TpbGR.qEI!II CONTEST - --- ' 7 58th In State GEORGIA FORESTRY Pulpwood Producing Tree Farm Certified A newly certified Georgia Tree Farm, the fifty-eighth and most recent to be so accredited in the state, today is producing a crop eventually slated for one of the nation's leading forest industries. The new Tree Farm is that of tht> Portwood tract of the Georgia Forest Farms Inc., of Washington, Ga. The crop being produced on the 1,174 acres of gently rolling Oglethorpe County forestland is pulpwood. An outstanding example of how keeping wildfires from woodlands GOOD MANAGEMENT HIGHLIGHTS TREE FARM SCENES - Austin Pruitt, (above, right), f (rest manager for Georgia Forest Farms, Inc., shows James 0. Reid Georgia Forestry Commission Farm Forester for District 10, how a stand of Loblolly Pine, planted in 1947, has fared in five years. Below, Pruitt points out a frill spot on a hardwood where pois m was applied. Killing the tree allowed release of young Pines in background. can result in A-1 growth may be seen in the acres of the Portwood tract. ''Georgia Forest Farms Inc., purchased this land in 1947,'' the firm's Forest Manager, Austin Pruitt, pointed out, ''and until that time, the acreage had been burned over yearly. One of our first steps in instituting a management policy for new tracts is setting up an adequate - and workable - forest fire prevention plan.'' This plan, made doubly difficult by the fact that the county has no organized forestry unit, opened with a stern warning to all tenants remaining on the property that wildfire must be kept from the property, that wildfires must be reported immediately, and that tenants must take immediate action to suppress all wildfires. ''We also equipped vehicles with back pumps and hand tools for fire fighting,'' said the forester, ''and several storage boxes containing fire fighting equipment at strategic points throughout the area.'' Proof that these extensive prevention plans paid off is seen in the fact that no serious wildfires have struck the property since it was purchased in 1947. The forest floor beneath the larger trees, nearly bare of living matter five years ago, today is thickly covered with a growth of ''trees for tommorrow. '' Another major step in releasing the pine stand for future growth h~s been through application of Esteron 245 in frills, a hardwood poisoning operation, which thus far has covered 250 acres. Reforestation includes planting 45 acres in Loblolly Pine in 1948. A 95 per cent survival was recorded. The Georgia Tree Farms System provides recognition for those woodland owners who maintain correct fares try practices. A farmer may qualify for membership by coopetating with the Georgia Forestry Commission in an effective fire control program and utilizing approved management techniques to assure continuous growth of corrunercial timber crops. 8 JUNE, 1952 !Foresters And Rangers In The News Lowndes County Ranger w. W. Wright recently announced that construction has begun on the Fares try Unit headquarters at the Lowndes County-Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Demonstration Forest east of Valdosta. This site was chosen because its central location will facilitate the quickest possible movement of fire fighting equipment to any point in the county. On completion of building operations the entire Lowndes County Forestry Unit will transfer its headquarters to the Demons tration Forest area, and equipment will be stored nearby on a 25acre plot. Forestry personnel are constructing the structures, which will include an administration building, living quarters, and a maintenance shop for equipment. Wood from the area cleared for the station is being utilized, while other material and financial aid is furnished by Lowndes Countians who have timber holdings. Plans are also being made by the Ceorgia Forestry Commission for the erection of a 120- foot steel tower at the new ranger station to replace the one now at Delmar. \. OLD AND NEW- Typifying the progress which has been made by the Georgia Forestry Conmission in recent years in its fire suppression activities is the Spalding county Forestry Unit headquarters site where one of the early ''home made'' lookout towers still stands beside a new ''oil derrick'' tower erected this winter. Cabs and steps now are being erected in all the Commission's new derrick towers. District Forester Olin Witherington recently directed a forestry demonstrati m in Muscogee County on the George Adams farm three miles northeast of Columbus. Aiding him were Assistant District Forester Turner Barber, Walter Olapman, Assistant Extension Forester, Georgia Agricultural Extension Service, and Muscogee County Forester Jim Reed. Instructors emphasized the proper procedure in thinning a pine stand for pulpwood. With a tenth-of-an-acre serving as their demonstration point, the foresters cut the diseased and mi sshapen trees to insure that the younger, healthier trees would get a better chance to develop. The trees which were sawed down could be sold as pulpwood, Witherington explained, while the thinning operation would insure a better quality of timber for the future. Witherington also demonstrated to the Muscogee landowners the proper planting of pine trees. Walker County Ranger R. G. McCurdy spoke last month to the Lafayette Rotary Club on the importance of forest fire prevention and forest protection. McCurdy reported that since two out of every three acres in Walker County are in woodlands, it was important to preserve the forests for the welfare of all Walker Countians. McCurdy also emphasized the individual responsibility of each person in protecting the fares ts from the rava~es of fire. 9 GEORGIA FORESTRY From Tree to Shuttle Blocks Georgia's colorful Dogwood, famed in somg and story throughout the South, today is playing a vital part in this region's vast textile industry. Textile mill shuttle block constructed of Georgia Dogwood is being fashioned daily for use in cotton and other textile mills along the entire eastern seaboard. Typical of the mill producing this little known but highly vital by-product of the forests is the Floyd Cass mill in Heard County. Located one mile west of Franklin in the green forested area where the Chattahoochee slowly unwinds through a series of West Georgia Counties, the mill was placed at that site by Cass in 1950. ''The Dogwood was fairly heavy ip through here when I came from my former mill site in Sparta, Tennessee, two years ago,-,.,. the veteran shuttle maker related. ''The Dogwood supply had pretty well thinned out around Tennessee, but I figure there's enough in this area yet to allow me to stay one more year. II Most of Cass" Supply comes from a 50 mile area of the mill. His next move will be to Central Georgia. Floyd Cass, Owner, Points Out Shuttlemill Machinery. ' 'We produce rough shuttle bolts of Dogwood only," he explained. ''We make square block bolts here, wax the ends, and ship them to a factory in Sparta, Tennessee where they're completed.' ' The mill consumes from two and a half t c three cords of Dogwood a day. The cord will produce approximately 400 shuttleboxes. Four men are employed in the mill. Cass' supply of wood comes, as do supplies of most other Georgia mills of a similar type, by.rail and by truck. In addition he buys wood on the stump. ''Many Georgia farmers,'' said the mill owner, ''would do well to investigate their own woodlots and then their own communities to see if they have merchantable Dogwood and to determine if a nearby market does not exist for that species.' 1 Cass pointed out that timber with sap knots and burr knots was not acceptable at shuttle mills. Wood specifications on material going to shuttle mills calls for 20, 40, and 60 inch lengths, not less than four and a half inches at the small end. Uogwood Enters Plant As Rough Bolts, Left, and Leaves As Finished Product, Shuttle Blocks, Right. FENCEPOSTS - ANOmER GEORGIA FOREST INDUSTRY - RE presentative of Georgia's important post industry is plant West of Douglas. At left is one of the two tanks used in treating as many as 1, 000 fence posts at one time. Each run requires approximately 24 hours, with beating solution just under boiling point. A steam boiler maintai ns this heat. Fence posts, cross ties, lumber, wagm bodies, small poles, and cross arms can be treated at the plant. In the ph