Georgia forestry, Vol. 6, no. 12 (Dec. 1953)

GEORGIA FORESTRY

Men And Machines Conquer Wildfire

The towering mountains and tem-

pled hills of Georgia's northern

r:im again were the scene of ' 'poss-

ible impending disaster'' as Geor-

gia's greatest forest fire crisis

of this season developed to the

highly critical stage and portended

a possible wildfire blowup during

the second and third weeks of No-

vember. But the blowup was a-

verted-

preparedness, fore-

planning and organization had

their reward.

I:Uring the 12 day period from November fl through 19, more than ~00 wildfires struck with savage
fury at north Georgia woodlands, as parched, tinder-dry forests
and ground cover fell easy prey to searing flames. An estimated 13,500 acres burned during this period.

The fire crisis had developed over a period of several months as the extended drought of last August carried into and through a warm, almost rainless Indian Summer and on into 0ctober that brought with it killing frosts and death to the annual greenerv.

A backfire torch is used to combat forest flames on a Fulton Councy fire.

The stage was set and curtain time was at hand for Operation Wildfire as November came in with its deadly combination of bonelike dryness, low humidity, and increased wind velocity. The situation gradually worsened as Canmission officials, keeping a close watch from the Rome, Gainesville and Atlanta headquarters, noted an increasing fire incidence and extremedifficulty in suppressing and contacting fire. A veillike pall of smoke and haze hung over north Georgia making fire detection from towers and planes either very difficult or impossible. This hazard of closeting smoke held its grip on north Georgi~ ~hroughout the period of the
Cr1S1S.
~<lovement of emergency personnel and equipment to the hardest-hit counties of northwest Georgi a began inrnediately, with emergency units from the Macon Shop moving north first and being followed closely by personnel and heavy suppression equipment from the middle and southern districts. Mobi liz ation was accelerated as conditions became highly critical
and potentially explosive by No-
vember lOth, and during the period November 8-19 there was assembled an army of firefighters and equipment numbering 325 men, 7';- trucks, 3S tractor and plow suppression units, four planes, and handtools for a thousand men. Crews working on a 24 hour, round- the-e lock basis were battling flames in northwest, northeast and western Georg1a.
Coincid~nt with the mobilization of fire fighting forces all possible steps were taken to meet the crisis by enlisting public aid in the fight, intensifying law en-
forcement, and by limiting the risk of woods fires through reducing numbers of persons in the woods.
At the request of the Forestry Corrmission and the Game and Fish

Commission, the ban of all hunting was extended to cover all 35 counties of the Seventh, Ninth and Fifth Congressional Districts, by executive order of Governor Talmadge.
Every available media was emplyed to reach the public with information on the crisis, with the result that hour-by-hour reports on the progress of the battle were banner headlines in the press, on the radio wires, and on the television screens, the movie newsreels, and the magazines pages of the state and nation.
Forest law enforcement officers of the Commission we~e in action in strength from the start of the battle, both working independently and in cooperation with enforcement personnel of the Fish and Game Commission, the G B I, the Georgia State Patrol and local law officers. As the ugly spectre of incendiarism reared itself in several places, fires were carefully probed, evidence assembled and a nurrber of arrests were made in the fire-threatened districts.
A total of seven arrests were made in Hall, Haralson and Floyd Co~n~ies during the height of the
Cr1S1S.
Just as the paten tia lly explosive situation threatened to erupt in all fury during the middle of the second week, the combined weight of numbers, organization, equipment, and a crystallized public awareness of the seriousness of the situation, began to assert itself. Fire incidence dropped, though weather conditions were progressively worsening, crews were enabled to reach fires when small, and acreage losses dropped.
As the focal point of the fire ravage became extreme northwest Georgia with mountainous Dade County the center of trouble- an advance base headquarters for fire fighting operations was established at Salem on the top of
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tigator, and James D. Morris, Laurens County

patrolman, follow Orville M. Gilbreath, tractor

driver for the Dade County FOrestry Unit, as

they suppress a fire on Lookout Mountain.

2. J. W. Roberts, left, Bulloch County Ranger, WI!.~,.,.

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District 7, points out the site of a Lookout

Mountain forest fire to L. L. Lundy, Asst. Fire

Control Chief, Georgia Fbrestry Commission.

4. A powerful bulldozer clears a firebreak

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Two Million Seedlings Are Planted To Mark Tree Appreciation Day

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ground by machine at a Georgia Forestry Commission nursery .

R ecord Seedling Annual ABAC

Crop Mov es To
Landowners
Georgia landowners early in November began receiving their first shiprrents of an estimated 100, 000, 000 seedlings that are being lifted and shipped to every county in the state by the Georgia Forestry Cornrnjssion' s four nurseries.
Lifting operations began last month at Hightower, Davisboro, Herty, and HorseshoeBend nurseries and seed] ings are being removed from beds as rapid] y as orders can be assembled and shipped. New grading tables and accessory equipment were rushed to completion at the Horseshoe Bend nursery in time to begin seed] inp shipnents.
Mr. A. Lamar Matthews, of Faye ttevill e , received the first shipment of seedhngs from Hightowe r Nurse ry on November 12. Mr. A. F. Morrow, of Butler, received the firs t from Hert y Nursery on November 13, Mrs. E. G. Weathers , of Millen , received the first from Davis boro Nursery on Novembe r 13; and Mr. James W. Brannen, of Claxton, received the first shi prre n t f rom Horseshoe Bend Nnrser y on No vember 16.

Short Course
Various phases of forest management and marketing held the spot1ight as more than 100 landowners, foresters and industry representatives attended the annual forestry short course held at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in early November.
Following a welcome by President George P. Donaldson, Holt Walton, outstanding landowner of Cordele, opened the morning session with a description of sorre of the principles and practices he has derived fr.orn lQ years of timber management and tree planting. Mr . Walton stressed particular! y the importance of ] abor management and transportation in timber management. ' 'Labor and transportation are two high priced factors with which we are dealing in harvesting and shipping wood - a low priced corrmodi ty. ''
''The Place of Grazing in the Forest Management Program',. was the subject of corrments by Lowel] Hall, Panger Conservationist, U. S. D. A. , Tifton, and Dorsey Dyer, Extension Forester, Athens, presented facts and figures on the ''Outlook, Drain, Growth and F~ pected l 1se of the Forests in the I ower Half of Ceorgia.' '
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Nearly 2,000,000 forest tree seedlings were planted by Georgia school children earli er this month in a statewide' 'Tree Appreciation Cay' ' in which 4-H boys and girls played the leading role .
Sponsored by the 4-H youth in an effort to bring the message of good forestry to their fellow ci tizens and to help the Georgi a Forestry Corrmission in its extensive reforestation program, the special planting day had the endorserrent and cooperation of several statewide groups and organizations.
The project was organized under the leadership of the Georgia Agricultural Extension Service with cooperating organizations i n cluding the Georgi a Fe deration of Women's Clubs, the Garden Clubs of Georgia, the Georgia Bankers Association, the Georgia Association of School Boards, County School Superintendents, a~d .the Georgia Forestry Commission.
Commission seedlings were pu r chased by Georgia banks and were furnished from Georg1a Forestry Corrmission nurseries.
SAF Meeting
Scheduled
The Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the Society of American Foresters will be he ld in Thomasville, January 29-30, 1QS4, according to an announcement by A. E. Patterson, Section Chairman.
Meeting headquarters will be at the Scott Hotel, with a technical forestry prog ram planned for Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. The banquet will be on Friday night. Lad1es are invited, and a program for them is being arranged.

Dodge Celebrates ''Keep Green11

Green was the color motif of the J~y 3nd festivity filled the air as Dodge County c elebrated it$ second annual ''Keep Dodge County Green'' day on Noverrber 6.
The highlight of the gala day was the colorful parade of forestry floats bedecked with lovely ladies. Led by the Eastman High School Band, the floats showing the many phases of forestry practices wound through Eastman's pine-decorated avenues to the tune of lively marches.
Schools throughout the County entered floats in the parade competitions, in addition to many commercial floats and private displays included in the entourage.
The parade came to a halt at the Legion Field Ball Park where Preston Stamps, Chairman of the eep Dodge County Green Council gave a welcoming address t o the group.
Carter Martin, I:Qd ge County Agent and master of c eremonie s, introduced speakers, guests and judges. Wendell Giddens, a 4-H Club boy, spoke on ''What Fares try in Dodge County Means To Me.''
Following the introduction of ''Miss Gum Spirits of Turpentine," Miss Marybeth Harrell of Eastman, A. Ray Shirley, Secretary of the American Turpentine Farmers Association, substituted as principal speaker for C-.overnor Talmadge who was unavoidably absent.
Shirley congratulated Dodge Countians on the ''the progress they have made in forestry' ' and stated that ''Georgia is one of the top states in the Union in the amount of income and. the number of persons employed in forestry and the forest industries.''

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1. FIRST PLACE WINNER. "Forestry product~ and pretty girls were featured as Rhine High School ' s float captured first prize.
2. A. R. SHIRLEY, SECRETARY, ATFA, Valdosta, delivers the principal address of the Keep Georgia Green Festival.
3. TilE HORN OF FOREST PLENTY was an outs tanding parade float.

Awarding of prizes for winning par ade floats cl irmxed the day's events with first prize among the white schools going to Rhine High School and the Eastman Seniors winning second place. Winners among the colored floats were Chauncey and Lisbon.

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GEORGIA FORESTRY

Charcoal Production Finances Stand

Improvement On Talbrion Tree Farm

One of the ne\\ eSt wrinkles i n solving the h ardwo<'G problem i s l eing demons trated on one of Georgi a's pione cr- Tree Farms l oc ated ne ar Genev a on t he Tal bot ~,1ar i on County 1i ne i n soudwest Ge orgj a.
Here one o f the sta te ' s n~del Tree Farms i s being constantl y improved as pine hard wood forests are converted t o rure pine st ar1ds with the rerroval of cull hardwoods, and the novel featu re is that the operation is being financed through the production of charcoal from the hardwoods.
The Talbrion Tret Farm, as it is aptly named for its JocCI tion, is stri ctly a famil), affair. CwneJ and operated as a partner-
ship ly ''senior partner'' J. W.
&ti t h , I :if. two sons W. A. Rnd W. K. ~nitl and his daughter Mrs. Averil Smith Anthony, the holnings embody 2?97 acr es wi th 2247 acres in trees. First certifi e d i n 1949 the Talbrion Tree .Farm actually began opera t i oJ' ir 1946, and since that t ime the Smiths have planted mo re t han 140,000 Slash, lob-

loJJ y ?. T't) Longleaf pines, and equipmen t for fire suppression, firebr eahs and e quipmen t f (I fm f j re suppression, as we l l a s wor king close ly wit) , the Talbot ar)(' rarion County Fores tr y Units . They have cut select:i ,ely throughout the history of the managt%Pnt pf t1 t i r woodlands , and have establi..; hed a :r{p utation for good cutting rrethods which has enabled them to expand tl e i r harvesting oper-
a t ioi :- into forestland s o r other
owner s.
Blackjack Oak and other s c rub spec i es , a) n L \1 :i t I some hie kory, i s used for charcoal productioJt. When the hardwoods are removed in the irrprovement thinnings, the wood is cut into four-foot lengths, and trucked to the charcoal kilns. S~t planting is done on some of the openings r:1~: ce by the rerroval of the h e- rdwoods, while natur al regeneration f r om the standing pines serves to restock many of the areas. The wood is pi 1ed teepee fashion and each of the four kilns is lowered over a pil e .

Each kiln holds abou t one-half a cord of wood . (\peration and
movement of tJ, t-' J,( <.~ vy steel
kilns is made J orid and easy by use of a home-invented and hornemanufactured boom, controlled by means of a truck steering apparatus converted for the purpose. f.jndling and fuel oil are use d to ignite the charge s of wood. The fire isstartedat the bottom of the pile and is allowed to gain headway before the cap is p 1aced on the top of the kiln and the air vent holPs on the bottom periphery of the kiJr:s are closed by piling dirt. Approximately four full days is required to complete the ''run'' on each charge, - two days to complete the burning and two days to cool. Final output is about one ton of cl fl rcoal from two cords of wood. The ''Talbrion Cllarcoal'' is sold in bags or in bulk with the principal market being conrnercial barbe-
cue entrepreneurs.
This forestry enterpri st also comprises a full-scale,versatile diversified program of wood

NEWEST PRODUCT of the Talbrion Tree Farm are thread winders made from cull hardwoods in the

Smiths' COQ)lete woodworking shop. Below, Talbot County Forest Ranger curtis Wiggins admires the

W. A. SMITH, JR., below, proudly shows the attractive Tree Farm sign mounted on Highway 41

p recision-made winders as Smith shows a set.

in front of pine plantations.

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THREE-FOOT HARDWOOD BOLTS are cu t i n the woods and trucked to the charcoal kilns. (upper left photo)
AIR VENTS at the bottom of the kilns are left open until the fires gain headway and are then covered with earth. (upper right photo)

utilization. A partial list of
products sold for years from the forest includes lumber(their
diesel-powered mill cuts P,OOO
feet per day)poles and piling, pulpY~ood, fuelwood, posts and
veneer bolts. Not content with their rPcent expansion into the
field of utilization of scrub hardwoo~~ .s :f(Jr charcoal, the
Smith's have even more recently
entered into the manufacture of

a fini shed forest product from hardwoods removed in their improvement thinnings. lbey have just contra c t t-d with a Talbotton textile mill to provide a large order of thread winders, which they are manufacturing themselves to exact specifications on t heirownlathe. Hickery taken from their pine-hardwood forests is being utilized for the winders.

SAWMILLING is a big part of the Talbrion Tree Farm story. These large dock timbers (lower left photo) bring a premium price.
SMITH and Forest Ranger Wiggins (lower right photo) admire some of the fast-growing planted Slash pines that cover many Talbrion Tree Farm acres.

The ir c ompl ete wooc\vorking :mel meta horl<ing shop is considered s tanda r d e qu i pmen t in the highly organi zed operation of thi s Tree Farm, and is t he particu] ar favorite of t he eldest of the ''Smith boys , 1 1 who is an expe rt mac hi n ist and maintains hi5h oper a t i ng efficiency on the many pi eces of e quipment used to plan t, g row, harvest and sell trees.

GEORGIA FORESTRY
"Dean Of Southern Forest Tree Nurserymen"

Herty Superintendent

Began Job 20 Years Ago

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This month, as the shipi ing season for Ceorgi a's record breaking crop of 100,000,000 forest tree seed lings gets in to full swing , tribute will be raid to the man who he 1red make the record possible - - M. F. ~"ur phy, who two decades ago this December began a career with the Ceorgia Forestry Corrmission which was to rrah 1im known as ''the dean of Southern forest tree nurserymen. ' '
Mr. Murpl1y actually began his cal eer experience in nursery work at the age of 12 as understudy to his father, who produced fruit and ornamental
trees at Faye ttevi 11 t , Ceorgia. Following 1is father's death he
orerated a store for two years be fore the call of the '' grt>en thumb'' once again prevailed and he returned to take charte of his father's nursery. Here he
stayed unti 1 19?.~, V~l-en he came
to the Hcrty Nursery at the offer of B.M. I ufburrov., Georgia's first state fur ester.
There at the Her ty Nursery, which was then ' 'in the country on the Albany-Newton Poad, '' but which is nov. almo:,;t 011 the outskirts of Albany, on a bleak Saturday afternoon on tiP first day of December twenty years ago, Mr. Murphy began the phase of his career which had made him one of the leading, on the ground authorities, in nursery practice and techniques, and has experted a pronounced influence on,forestry throughout the South. He is the oldest employee of the Forestry Commission, in
point of years of service. His mi 11 ions of growing pines - many o f v.hich are today being turned
in to pulp in the state's mills stand as living memorials to his devotion and handiwork. ~re than 2~0 million of these young trees have been grown and shipped to landowners under !:is watchful eye .

When the tree- rai sing team of ~~r. ~ndr.hs. Murphy first arrived at Herty they found the state's only nursery covering a total area of 7~ acres and supporting a crop of POO, 000 trees. Today the nursery stretches over 63 acres and grows 22 million seedlings a year. They found only two buildings - the pump house and a small packing shed. Since that time he has supervised construction of a residence which he and his family occupied in 1934, a new and greatly enlarged packing shed and office, a storage shed, two large equipment sheds, anJ two new wells with modern, high c~aci ty pu!JT>s. The irrigation system, originally covering two acres, now mechanically sprinkles the entire 63 acres. J n 1933 he employed three men full tj rre, and 15 on rush days. This year his average force
numbers 16 men and women emrloy-
ees and during the shipping season S3 persons wi 11 be required to lift, grade and ship seedlings. One of his pnme countinous endeavors has been to increase the production of healthy seedlings per unit area, and in this he has been eminently successful . He j s now producing twice as many seedlings per block as ten years ago and has realized his objective of reachir>g a rroduction of one million trees per
acre.
Visitors fran far and wide trek to the Herty Nursery to observe Mr . Murphy's techniques and get the benefit of his seeming! y infinite knowledge of treegrowing methods. He has recei ved visitor s frorn nearly every
state iP the Union and from many foreign countries. Internationally known authorities on nursery practice often seek his consultation v.hen assembling j nformation for publication .
Murphy speaks with inter s f and well- founded pride as he re-

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" TOP QUALIIT PLANTING SroCK," says Murphy as he clo sely i nsp ects trees in one bed of the nursery. (upper left photo)
1liE TRAINED EYE of th e master nurseryman scrutinizes th e seedlings as Murphy en v isions thes e mill ions of little trees as fu t ure pulp wood and sawlogs. (upper righ t photo)
NURSERY PANORAMA--Acres of fully-st ocked seedling beds stretch almost to the horizon. (bottom photo)

lates his many experiences down through tl e years. He calls this year's stando f seedlings ''the nearest perfect crop I ever t1ave seen - a crop I've been working twenty years to produce,'' and looks upon this twentieth anni versar y p r oduction of seedlings "ala Murphy" as a fitti ng climax to "1he 20 years d: a t have been the best and rnost enj oyall e of my en tire life.'' Mrs. Murrhy Learns as she shows the equal pride she justifiably holds in the progress at Hertyprogress ir1 wbich as a guiding hand beside her husband she has had a big part. ''\\e don't even have time to go fishing'', they both say, ''even though we hold
li ft.-time hllilting and fishing licenses as gifts of the state. '
~everal experiences stand out in ~\Irphy's memory as of special significance in the advancement of his methods, but outstanding amrng these is one which changed his entire procedure in preparing seed for plan tin g. He had
some seed in cold storage in an
ice plant which burned on a Friday. Smoke, fumes and fire damage prevented him froowbtaining the barrel of seed until the following Monday. At that time he found the barre 1 and seed was completely covered with water.
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GEORGIA FORESTRY

Rangers In The News

Polk County Forest Ranger James Carter reports answering a call to three fires simultaneously at Felton, where his unit saved two store buildings and one house.
One store building was burning when the unit arrived on the scene, Carter said, and the house and other building blazed up upon his arrival.
The unit put the fires out with a portable water pump mounted on the Forestry unit's pickup truck. The fire was under control when the fire department fromBuchannan arrived on the scene, Carter said.
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The Bank of Sc reven County has recently purchased a mechanic al tree planter to be made av ai l a b l e to Screven County farmers for reforestation purposes. The tree planter has been turned over t o the Screven Cotmty Forestry Uni t for management .
John A. Mills, Jr., ban k president, said, ''The bank has purchased this machine bec au se of its realization of the need for expanding our for est l ands and to assist farmers in setting seedlings with a minimum ofdi ff iculty . This program has the endorsement of all the agricultural agencies in the county and these agencies will assist any farmer in preparing his forest management program.''

FIRE WARDEN SI GNS GO UP-- Crawford County Ranger J. H. Rigdon points out one o f the many signs
being erected in hi s county to mark t he location s of volunteer fj re wardens.

Ben Hill Cmmty Forestry Ranger J. C. Bowen has corre up with a novel idea to arouse public interest in forestry. In his weekly Fitzgerald Herald news column, he wrote a short quiz to test the forestry knowledge of the general public. Mr. Bowen reports that his quiz seems to have been well read and that public response was very good.
Leon Ray, Emanuel County Forest Ranger, has been named co-chairman of the 1953-54 Keep Georgia Green Contest in Emanuel County. This ye ar's contest will be under the sponsorship of the Emanuel County Pine Tree Festival which is held annually for the purpose of giving Emanuel County citizens a better unde rstanding and appreciation of the Pine tree and the part it pl ays toward the advancement of t he coun t y.

Vol. 6

GEORGIA FORESTRY
December, 1953 Published Monthly
by t he GEORGIA F ORESTRY COMMISSION,
State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia Gu y ton DeL oach, Director

No. 12

Member s, Board of Commissioners:

G. Philip Mor gan, Chai r man _________________________________________________ Savannah

J ohn 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 _

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A SSOCIATE EDITORS__

__ Robe rt Rutherford , Catherine Dismuke

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DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION:

DI STRICT !- Route 2, St atesboro

DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 505, Milledgeville

DISTRI CT 11-P. 0. Box 26, Camilla
DISTRICT III- P. 0. Box 169, Americus

DISTRICT VII-Route 1, Rome
DISTRICT VIII-P. 0. Box 811, Waycross

DISTRICT IV- P. 0. Box 333, Newnan

DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416, Gainesville

DISTRICT V- P . 0. Box 328, McRae

DISTRICT X-P. 0. Box 302, Washington

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Zack Seymour, Assistant District Fbrester, District 4, rakes a line, above, to halt flames on a Fulton County forest fire.

Men, Machines- Herty Superintendent

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Lookout Mountain. Here was the nerve center of operations in this district with fire crews being dispatched from this point.
Meanwhile in the Gainesville and Newnan Districts, the fire problem was simultaneously gain 1ng momentum and numerous blazes were being fought, with operations harrpered by a similar pall- of smoke and haze. Though fire occurrence reached a high point in thes e areas, the regular per sonnel and equipment we re a ble to mee t the situation and acreage losses were held to a minimum i n prote c t ed counties. In the three unprotected counties of ~hite, Banks and Dawson counties, racing fir e s cut down thousands of acres of woodlands and threatened surrounding protected counties. Crews fought 56 fires that burned 785 ac res i n
the Gainesville Distri c t and 107 fires that burned 1100 acre s in the Newnan distri ct i n 12 days .
At the same t ime wea thennen predicted i ncreased wind veloci ties with ''no rain i n sigh t ' ' for the next several days . Firefighters battled on and bla zes in the s t ate were decre ase d ste adi ly, bu t t he danger of a fire '' bl owup' ' s ti 11 remained. After more days of fi ghting, all fires were out l a te in th e evening of Novembe r 19, with a chance of scattered showe r s forecast for the late afternoon of Friday, November 20. On tha t d ay, a drenching rain finally came. The danger was over, t he fires we re out. Emergency crews and equ ip ment were rroved out of the area . ''Operation Wildfire '' - in its first test of the year-was hi story.

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Common practice at that time was for seed to be kept corrr letely dry until plan t e d, with t he result t hat about six weeks was required for germination. nowing he could not afford to lose the see d wh ich were wet from the fire , he imne di a tely plan t ed the wet seeds as a d e.sparate resort.
Within lC' days he had full germination o f t he s eed which had been soaked and an excell ent stand begun in these particular beds. Seed which had been previously planted dry did not germinate unti 1several weeks l ater. From that time he has been stratifying all s e ed by soaking in wate r overni g}-.t , and as a result has gre at l y reduced the period r e qu i r ed for germination.
He has al so pioneered in sever al oth er ph ases of nursery opera tio n . In 1938 he carried on weed con trol by spraying -one o f the fi rs t ti me s this was done on a major scale. This reduced his weed ing crew from more than 1.(() to abo ut 12 pe rsons. He has kept a s ee d record since 19 34, when he f irst sta r ted co llecting s eed , and has Sl!ccessfull y stored seed as long as nine years. He now is carrying on a project in es t ablishment of seed tree orchards from which he hopes to procure superi or, di sease-resi s talit pi nes. He plants seed f rom selected trees to obtain seed f rom wh ich superior trees can be grown .

Bill MD rray , Management Fb rester, District 6, uses a back pump to suppress a Rising Fawn fire.

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Spe akers on t he afte rnoon' s program included J. D. S tr ange, U. S. D. A. Forest Service , who covered ' 'New Practices and Assistance Availah le to Farmers Through Area Fore s ters,'' Dr. W. A. Campbell, Schoo l of For estry, Un i ve r s ity of Georgia, who spoke on'' Insect and Dise ase Control of Shade Tree s ' ', and A. R. Shirley, Secre t a r y, ATFA, Valdosta, who in dis cussing ' 'What Is New In Marketing of Naval Stores'' predicted that within the next ten years more and more big timber land owners would make their stands available for working for naval stores . ''

The closing phase of the short course was devoted to demonstrations of forestry practices held

indoors due to the inclement we a ther. E. 0. Powers, Area Fores-

ter,N S C P;Tifton, and Dyer show-
ed advanced naval stores prac-
tices; Frank Bennett, IRese arch

Forester, Cordele and John Harrison, Ranger, Tifton, demonstr a-

ted hardwood killing; J . F. Spi ers ,

Forester, Central of Ge orgia Rail-
road, Statesboro, and Mitchell
Parker, Internationa l Paper Co.,

Panama Ci t y, Fla., explained pu lp wood practices, and Car los Mcleod ,

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District F :, gave a tree

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Georgia Forestry
December, 1983

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You Can't Pull Christmas Trees Out Of A Hat
Maybe you can pull a rabbit out of a hat, but it takes time to grow a tree. Nature provides the magic. When forests are protected from fire and harvested wisely, new trees continue to sprout and grow. A wellmanaged forest will produce trees for use forever. We can grow trees without being magicians, but we must be careful with fire in the woods to Keep America Green.

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