Georgia forestry, Vol. 8, no. 4 (Apr. 1955)

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THE . ~". BIG ONE.'

SEARING FLAMES--Flames in many of the Ware County fires leaped 40 al'ld 50 feet above the tops of 60 foot high trees. Kecord torces of emergency equipment and men were called in to help fight the flames.
CLOUDS OF SMOKE- -Smoke and flames 1 ike this alongside highways hal ted traffic in many areas. An extremely critical drouth situation heightened disastrous effects of the fire.

FIRE SCENE--This picture, although taken at nopn, resembles a night photograph, so dense is smoke put t'orth by the thousands of acres of burning woodlands.

WILDFIRE AT WORK-- Roads formed natural firebreaks in many areas, but so powerful were tbe winds and flames that wi ldfi,res easily jumped many roads and many plowed breaks.

APRIL , 1955

Forest Fires Ravage Southeast Georgia

Charred, desolate wastelands-still s1~oldering from one of the most disastrous wildfires in Georgia's modern day history-are all that remain today over much of 25,000 acres of what was once some of South Georgia's
prime turpentine and timber land.
The 25,000 acre loss, unofficial estimate of the area struck early last month by a series of wildfires which, fanned by high winds and tinder dry conditions, came roaring out of the Okefenokee Swamp and fanning out into adjacent timber areas, was the outstanding in a series of wildfire attacks which on March 10 occasioned a proclamation banning all control burning and other burning in the First and Eighth Congressional Districts.
Forest fire fighters throughout much of the South Georgia area had been battling more and more sporadic outbreaks of fire

as fire danger mounted up through the dry, rainless days of February and the first week of March. Finally, however, on Thursday, March 10, the"ibig one" broke, as a blaze which had already consumed 2,000 acres of Okefenokee Swamp woodland broke through the tight cordon of firebreaks placed around the area by the Ware COunty Forestry Unit and other Eighth District Georgia Forestry Commission personnel.

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wind out of the west, the flames ,,

crossed fire breaksand headed

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east toward U. & Highway l, a

wide four lane highway running

WARE FIRE SCENES--Smoke, top

from Waycross to Ja;ksonville. photo, billows up from woodlands

The 'fire was held at the highway, south of Waycross. Bud Sunday,

with occasional jumpovers being below, whose tractor, automobile

suppressed at this point, and then turned and raced southward.

and barn were destroyed in the fires south of Waycross, in-

Commission emergency equipment was called in from District

spects damage. Sparks from the Noods shown in the background ignited the barn and house, but

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the house was saved.

G E ORGIA FORESTR Y
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Foresters Attend 4-Day Talmadge To Address
Hardwood Cont roI 5chooI SAF, Alumni, GFA

Foresters who attended the four-day Hardwood Management School held at Macon during March were apprised of the large areas of Georgia forestland in hardwoods and of the methods of solving the probl ems confronting landowner s today in the profitable uti lization of these hardwoods.
The school was held at the Georgia Forestry Center and participating in the sess ions were twenty-five foresters from throughout the state representing the Georgia Forestry Commission and the Southern Region, U. S. forest Service, which conducted the school.

institute sound management practices on an increasing number of acres of hardwoods 1ands throughout Georgia.
Heading the list of instructors were John A. Putnam, Delta Branch, Southern Forest Experiment Station, New Orleans, and Harry Tomlinson, U. S. Forest Service, Atlanta. Other representatives of the Forest Service participating in the sessions were Dbuglas Craig, Ce c il Clapp and Richard Antonie, all of Atlanta. W. H. McComb, Chief, Fares t Management, Georgia Forestry Co mm ission, headed the Forestry Commission group.
Management Foresters of the Commission in attendance at the sessions were Floyd AI Smith, States boro; Frank Eadie, Camilla; Charles Wike, Americus; John Hammond, Newnan; James Reid, McRa e , R. L. Bauerband, Milledgeville; Floyd\\. Hubbard Jr., Rome; Henry Williams, Waycross; Sam Martin, Gainesville; John Harrison, Washington; and Sam Thacker, Atlanta.

Herman E. Talmadge
Former Governor Herman E. Talmadge will address the May 13 luncheon session at the joint meeting of the Georgia chapter, Society of American Foresters; the Alumni Society of the University of Georgia School of Forestry, and the Georgia Forestry Association.
Hu gh Dobbs, Association president, announced acceptance of t he lun c heon invitation by the former governor.
"Our 1955 speaker for this joint session," declared Mr. Dobbs, i s well qualified to address t hese three forestry groups, for his re cord in the field of woodland conservation is indeed an outstanding one.

"It was under his administration," the As sociation he ad added, "that the General Assembly passed a forester registration law, the first state i n t he nation to do s o. It wa s unde r his administration also that Georgia became the fir st state in the sou t h effec t ing creation
of a state Fore s t Re s ear c h Council."

The joint mee ting wi ll be he l d at Augusta May 12-13.

One o f t he sessi o n's hig h l i gh ts will be ann oun cement of win ner s of the Association ' s annual Keep Georgia Green contest.

Hine Receives
Nash Award
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Emanuel County citizens this month will observe the tenth ann1versary of their now famous and highly colorful Pine Tree Festival.
The week-long observance will be highlighted Friday, April 22, with the Festival address, to be delivered by Governor Marvin Griffin, and by the traditional parade.

Willard R. Hine
Willard R. Hine, Assistant R~gional Forester, Southern Region, U. S. Forest Service, Atlanta, has been named recipient of one of the annual national Nash Conservation Awards.
Mr. Hine, one of ten conservationists in the nation named as winners in the professional class, was cited for outstanding work in "promoting reforestation and developing programs to make management service available to small woodland owners."
He will receive a bronze
plaque and a $500 cash award.
Mr. Hine , 1ong a southern forestry leader 1n the field of public education, was graduated from Cornell University's school of forestry with the master of forestry degree. He began his career by performing research work at the Southern Forest Experiment Station at New Orleans.
Coming to Atlanta in 1935, he
served as Assistant Chief, Division of State and Private Forestry, Southern Region, U. S.
Fares t Service. In 1947, he
became assistant regional Forester in charge of the Southern Region's division of information and edur.ation, a pos ition which he holds today.

"We feel," declared Earl M. Varner, Pine Tree Festival secretary, "that this tenth observance of our annual event has a special significance, not only
to the citizens of Emanual County, but to all Georgians. The furestry strides that have been taken in this single de cade, both county-wide and statewide, have indeed been tremendous, and
we intend during this 1955 fes-
tival to give strong emphasis to this progress."

Governor Marvin Griffin, above, will be guest speaker at the Pine Tree Festival.
clition to giving the main address, the Governor also will cr ovn the Far"TI llireau queen.

The parade, to be the largest and most extensive ever held in the Festival's history, will be-
gin at 10 a.m. GOvernor Griffin wi 11 s pe ak at 11 a. m. In ad-
REIGNING FESTIVAL KING AND QUEEN--Left to right, Nella Shepard, and David Rowland.

Mayor Ralph Smith will introduce special gtests and give the welcoming address. The program also will include announceme nts and presentation of winners of such events as declama t i on , essays, pine arrange ments , Tree Farm award, posters, exhi bits and the various floats.
Band con certs, a soap bo x derby, fo r e str y de mon strati on s on t he cou r thouse s quare and & draw i ng for prizes wi ll h i gh1ight t he Friday afte rnoon ac ti vi ties .

The Pine Tree Festiva l golf tournament will be held all day ' Thursday.

Beginning last mon t h, Farm Bureau chapters and school s have been conducti ng e l i min at ion contests.

Ranger Leon Ra y and members of the Emanual Coun ty For e s try Unit will decorate the t own with pine trees,



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Forest Fires---
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Offices and County Forestry Units in areas of lower fire danger and from the Georgia Forestry Center in Macon.
By the weekend of March 12, men and equipment from County Forestry Units in Cherokee, Floyd, Richmond, Morgan, Walton, Fulton, Franklin, McDuffie, Warren, Polk, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson, Jefferson, M:mroe, Candler, Glynn and Wayne Counties either were on the fire line in Ware County or on their way to the line.
Pulpwood, turpentine, and lumber companies and many other forest industry organizations in the area threw all available manpower and equipment into the fight, and by Monday morning,
WOODLAND SCENE--Smoke and flames rising from the burned and burning acres rose into the air and could be detected for miles around the area.
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March 14, more than 200 men, several giant bulldozers, 35 light or heavy fire suppression units, five airplanes and one helicopter, furnished by the Georgia National Guard, were fightin~ fire in Ware COunty.
Soon the fire situation developed into three major danger areas. The first, the "Fort Mudge" fire was centered ~5 miles south of Waycross. This fire, the same which had corre out of the swamp, raced to U. S. 1 and headed South, jumred across the highway in the Fort ~fudge community, ran east to southeast through Fort Mudge pasture to John's Pond, a swamp, where it was blocked off by backfiring from the old Hoboken Road.
Guyton DeLoach, Di~ec~or, Georgia Forestry CommiSSion, gave special praise to employees of Union Bag and Paper Corporation who successfully held back the flames from their southward march at this point. Jack M>ore, Hank Haynes, Sid Kennie, and George Brack were leaders in this group.

This fire~ in its southward race along U. S. Highway 1, threatened the Georgia Forestry Corrmission District Headquarters office and nearby residences of personnel. fumes were evacuated and women and children transported to Waycross, but the flames bypassed headquarters and the res idences. Flames leaping eastward across the highway, however, eventually were responsible for the loss of more than an estimated fifteen thousand acres in the 36,000 acre Waycross State Forest, described by Mr. DeLoach as ''some of Georgia's finest timber." This same fire destroyed a barn, a tractor, and an automobile belonging to a Ware County turpentine operator and farmer al mg U.S. 1, &d Sunday.
Further north, another offshoot of the swamp fire, which came to be known as the "lliubl e Branch fire," crossed U. S. 1 five miles south of Waycross, threatened a nearby motor court, and raced seven miles to the Brunswick highway. Here an army of equipment was massed, but the
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'WHIRLEYBIRD' READY FOR RISE- -Lt. J. H. Strickland, of the Georgia National GUard, readies his helicopter for ~n observation flight over the burning forestlands .. Lt: Strickland ~nd his aircraft provided a valuahle contribut_IOn to the fire fighting efforts, not only through observatiOn work,, but by
dispatching supplies and materials as well.

TOURIST ATTRACTION--ON THE TRAGIC SIDE--The
broad, four-laned u. S. Hi_ghway 1, the main
thoroughfare from Waycross to Jacksonville, served
as a vantage point to view the wildfires which
were ravaging hundreds of acres at a time.

RESULTS OF FLYING SPARKS--Sparks, carried away from the main bodies of fires and deposited hundreds of yards away, set fires like this and constituted one of the major problems in halting advances of the wildfires.

MOTEL THREATENED--This motel on U. S . 1 south of Waycross ~as threatened by wild f ire which leaped across the highway. (photo above)
MECHANIZED ATTACK--Vehicles 1 ike this and 31 other similar I ight and heavy tract or-and-plow fire suppression pieces were thrown into the fight against flames in Ware Count.v.

REMAINS OF DEER CORRAL--Herds o f Ok efenokee deer once browsed on the green and luxu riant vegetation undering these towering pines . Th e corral's wire fences proved no deterrent t o t he roarin g flames
FIREBREAK--This firebreak stopped the flames at the POint shown below.

GEORGIA FORESTRY 7

New Act Strengthens Forestry Laws

A comprehensive Act enacted by the recent session of the Georgia General Assembly has greatly strengthened, broadened, and made more effective the laws and regulations c on c erning the functions and s cope of ac t ivity of state forest r y in the sta te.
Consisting of forty sections, the Ac t r epres ents an essential and long-needed overhauling of l egis lation governing the operation of the Georgia Forestry Commission and provides legal tools necessary to expand, intensify and advance publi c , private and industrial forestry in the state. The Act was authored and engineered to pass age by Rep. John Sheffield, of Brooks County, a graduate fores ter, forest products dealer, landowner, and Assembly conservation leader, in company with Rep. Robert L. Scoggin, Floyd County; Hou s e Speake r Marvin .VIoate of Hancock and House Floor l e ader Denmark Groover, Jr., Ribb County.
The new laws , whi c h, with stated exceptions, "supersede all previous laws of this state r e latin g to the organization, rowers and duties of the Forest ry Commission," define the duti es, qualification, manne r of

selection and powers of the Georgia Forestry Commission; provide for the appointment of a Director, and defining his qualifications, powers, duties, compensation and expenses; authorize the Director and Commission to promulgate rules and regulations relating to operatior of the Forestry Commission; authorize the Commission to acquire land and other property and to receive gifts and donations; provide for annual reports; provide for action against insects anddiseases prevalent to forests; and quarantine in such cases, provide for injuction; provide for regulations governing the controlled burning of lands and punishment
for a violation thereof; rrohibit fires burning uncontro led; prohibit the setting of backfires in certain instances; provide for receipt of all federal funds; provide for management, disposa 1, lease and sale of lands and products by the Commission; provide for cooperative agreements with counties and other persons; provide for forest ry investigators and define t heir powers and authority; provide for c reation of unit forestry boards in the dis cretion of t he Commission; authorize the Gove rnor to declare emer gencies

and prohibit hunting, fishing, camping, picnicking or other similar activities and d~clare penalty for violations thereof; provide for the purchase of aircraft and other equipment; provide for the entry on lands by the Commission, its agents, or others acting at their direction, to make investigations or combat forest fires; provide that the provisions of this act are separable; and repeal conflicting laws.
The following Acts were not repealed or modified by the 1955 Assembly action:
The Act Creating a State Board of Registration of Foresters and defining its duties and powers, approved February 21, 1951; the Act creating the Georgia Forest Research Council and defining it duties and powers, approved De c em be r 10 , 19 5 3, an d the Regional Forest Fire Protection Compact Act Approved December 10, 1953.
The Forest Fire Protection Act, approved February 23, 1949, and the Forest Fire Emergency Commit tee Act, approved February 23, 1949, were amended by _the 1955 Ac ts.

~EW GREENE COUNTY H~AOQUARTERS--Personnel of the Greene County Forestry Unit proudly display their new sign in front of the new
unit headquarters located in Greensboro.

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When the big one," a record Georgia wildfire disaster, broke out of the Okefenokee Swamp last month and ravaged an estimated 25,000 acres of ware County timberland, a powerfu I array of modern-day mechanized equipment was thrown into the battle.
Here the crowning, racing timber-eater boils up in fury, and in the foreground a fire patrol plane prepares to take off from a highway on a new foray in support of ground fire fighting forces .

APRIL, 1955

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Rangers In The News

Rece ~ t Keep Georgia Green activities in Crisp County cited by Ranger William Tvedt include plans for constructing two large billboard signs in the county and 16 road signs. The signs will urge residents to Keep Crisp County Green and to prevent forest fires. Plans also are under way by the Keep Green committee for forestry essay and lecture contests.
Cash prizes were awarded recently by Ben Hill County's Keep Green Council for a series of window displays arranged by school and civic organizations. Ranger J. C. Bowen reported Ashton High School won first
place prize of $25. Gateway
Garden Club placed second, with
$15 prize, and the Home Demonstration Council received $10
for placing third.
Hooper Matthews Jr., of McRae, Assistant District Forester, Georgia Forestry Commission; Nelson Brightwell, of Tifton, Assistant Extension Forester, Georgia Extension Service, and
E. 0. Powers, of Tifton, Naval
Stores Conservationist, were judges.
Ranger Ray Thomas' Gwinnett County Forestry Unit recently held an outdoor "control burning school" to teach residents of the county how to burn safely around woods, fields and buildings. The Ranger described the work of the forestry Unit but emphasized care and caution on the part of farmers and landowners could increase even more the Unit's efficiency. Ranger Thomas demonstrated safety rules to fo 11 ow in burning off fields and brush piles and urged Gwinnett County citizens to notify the Unit before they burn.

FIRE DANGER SIGN--Elbert County citizens easily can check the forest fire danger rating in their county by lo9king at this new danger barometer'' at Elberton. Ranger Albert M. ~looney turns the barometer pointer to the danger reading of the day as District Forester George Collier watches.

Vol. 8

GEORGIA FORESTRY
April, 1955
Published Monthly by the
GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION, State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia Guyton DeLoach, Director

No.4

Members, Board of Commissioners:

K. S. Varn, Chairman ____________________________________________________ ____ __ _Waycross

Sam H. Morgan ____________ Savannah

C. M. Jordan , Jr._______________Alamo

John M. McElrath..____________Macon

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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__ Richard E. Davis

ASSOCIATE EDITORS _________________ Robert Rutherford, Catherine Dismuke

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DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION:

DISTRICT I-Route 2, Statesboro
DISTRICT 11-P. 0. Box 26, Camilla
DISTRICT III-P. 0. Box 169, Americus
DISTRICT IV-P. 0. Box 333,
Newnan
DISTRICT V-P. 0. Box 328, McRae

DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 505, Milledgeville
DISTRICT VII-Route 1, Rome
DI STRICT VIII-P. 0. Box 811, Waycross
DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416, Gainesville
DISTRICT X-P. 0. Box 302, Washington

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gwlf etUUduu e~ Radio School

~04 ~i4e .fou ReJuctiMt

Sixty of the state's 137 Forestry Units have been selected for the Less than One-Fourth of One Percent Club," a group composed of County Forestry Units which have held the yearly fire
loss in their respective counties to less than ~of one percent of the total forest acreage

The counties have received
official commendations from the Georgia Forestry Commission for outstanding service in combatting forest fires and for drives that have reduced fire loss."

Units, recognized for their forest fire coutrol achievements, their Rangers, and the percentage of forestland loss includes the following:

Baldwin, Elmer Meeks

. 126

Bleckley,

.179

Catoosa, Ralph Clark, Jr. . 237

CFLUA, 11. W. Darley

. 172

Chattahoochee, J. W. Wright .008

Cherokee, E.L. Rolan

. 133

Clarke, A.J. Cote

. 024

Columbia, L.W. Lorenzo

.140

Consolidated TPO, D.T. Spells

.145

Coweta, E.P. Eubanks, Jr. . 144

Decatur, Joe Stanford

.212

Dougherty, W.A. Binns

.210

Douglas, fred Baker

.225

Elbert, A.M. Mooney

.074

Evans, A.D. Eason

.133

Fannin, H.f. Davenport

.036

Gilmer, J.L. Dover

.076

Gordon, J.C. MeDearis

.053

Green, H.E. Moore

.111

llabersbam, W.A. DeMore

.012

Uarr is, B. M. Moon

. 224

Heard, W. D. Millians

. 1 37

Jackson, James McElhannon . 225

Jasper, M.O. McMichael

.046

Jefferson. George Barfield .153

Jones, E. T. carnes Lamar, D. R. Smith

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Lincoln, W. 11. Dawkins . 193

Macon, Chesley Gilmore

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~\ad i son, 11. L. Winn

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Marion, John 0' Donnell

. liO

~lcDu ff ie -Warren, J. f. LOoney

. 211

~1e riwether, A.L. Thornton .150

~lonroe, W. W. Jackson

.135

Morgan-Walton, W.O. Palmer 105

Murray, J. W. Jacksm

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~luscogee, f. M. Cook

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~ewton, A.C. Dennis

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Oglethorpe, J.IJ. Buckman . 006

Pickens, D. G. McWhorter . 094

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RADIO SCHOOL- -H. f. King, of the General Electric Co111>any, (left photo), instructs Georgia Forestry Commission radio technicians. l~nry Canno~. (right photo), Commission Communications Engineer, heads a learn by doing'' session.
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Held In Macon
How better to use and maintain two-way radio in the conservation of forests was the theme of the Georgia Forestry Conrnission' s radio school held at the Georgia Forestry Center in Macon last month.
Commission radio technicians from throughout Georgia attended the school which specially emphasized maintenance, radio installation in aircraft, and the extension of the Commission's administrative radio network.
In elaborating on the purpose
of the school Communications En-
gineer Henry Cannon explained that "maintaining 880 radios is the major task of the Commission's specially trained radio technicians. Each of those technicians covers a complete forestry district and provides round-the-clock servicing for the radio sets under his supervision. Without an efficient communications system, any forest fire suppression operation is seriouslyhampered. lt is with this realization in mind that the Georgia Forestry Commission operates and maintains in peak condition two-way radios, most of which are of the highly effective FM type. Installed in lookout towers, fire suppression and fire patrol vehicles, planes and dispatching headquarters, these radios serve as an instantaneous link between the corps of Commission workers who spot fires and those who man the firelines."

Technicians attending the school included: J. E. Ervin,
Statesboro; John Harter, Camilla; Hylard Cosey, Newnan; carl Sanson, Milledgeville; Olin ~obinson, Rome; N. L. Raulerson, Waycross; Albert Young, Washing~
ton.

Instructors included R. L.
King, General Electric. Company,
and G. A. Weaver, Civil Aero-
nautics Authority.

Forest Fires--( Cont i nued f~ om PaR e 5)
fire jumped the Brunswick highway at Coggin's Still, threatening several houses, but eventually was halted at a point
about SQO yards to the east of
the Wa yc ross-Brunswick highway.

To the west of the Way c ross State Forest a third major f ire, the Suwanee Lake fire, was r esponsible for the loss of hundreds more acres.
With the proclamation of a ban on control and other burning, set by Mr. DeLoach on March 11, law enforcement officers of the Georgia Forestry Commission, working in close cooperation with local law enforcement officers, clamped strict enforcement on the area.
Charges of setting fire were placed against one person in Ware County and a Liberty County negro, but investigators reported that public cooperation throughout the ban area "was gratifyingly good."
Meanwhile, other counties in the Waycross, Statesboro, McRae and Camilla districts of the Commission were fighting battles of their own, not so large as those in the Ware County area, but still requiring round-theclock services of personnel in many of the affected counties.
Throughout District 8, Rangers reported a total of 5H~ fires burned more than 63,000 acres in the first 15 days of March alone In District 1, more than 600 fires burned 15,000 acres.
The fire situation in these three dist r i cts at this writing s till remained dangerous witp t he ban on burning sti ll on in Distr icts One and Eight. In Ware Coun t y fir e fight e rs pointed out a wi ldfi r e now confined t o t he Black Hammock a re a s outh of Wa ycross c ould wi t h r i s ing wi nds , jump hea vi ly p a t roll ed lines across a series of wide firebreaks and, pushed by a s t ro ng south wind, sweep through heavily wooded areas almost to Waycross.

MOPPING UP--constant patrolling of lines and breaks a nd mopp ing up operations to insure that fires, once controlled , were "dead out" were among the important phases of the fight against the Ware County wildfires.

An intensive salvage operation now is under way throughout all South Georgia lands which had been burned. Landowners of the burned area, including the Georgia Forestry Commission, with
ts severe losses on the Waycross State Forest, and pulpwood companies, are faced with removal of the timber be fore it becomes prey to insects and diseases. Last month Commission officials met with forest industry leaders in the area to discuss selling of salvagable timber.
" The t e r r i b 1e a f t e r ma t h o f these March fires in South Georgia," de clared Commission Dire ctor DeLoa ch, "will be fel t f or many years to come. The fire scene s t hemselves; - f] ames jumping 2000 yards, wildfire he ads c r e ating 40 mile an hour winds, flame s moving mor e than two miles an hour, and flames shooting 60 feet in th e air above tree t op s --were so terrifying words cannot adequately picture th e f erocity and havoc. The fires should, however, serve as a warn ing to all Georgia as to t he very vital need for caution i n handling any sort of fire or f l ame, whether it be match, cigaret, campfiee, burning off fires and trash burnings.

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Pike, H.M. Rawlins

.U73

Polk, J,J, carter

.196

Putnam, Dick Lynch

0 008

R~bun,

.015

Schley, L.S. Tondee

0 027

Stephens, 0. J. Dean

. 200

Stewart, H. L. Branyan .183

Taylor, Austin Guinn

. 171

Terrell, J. W. Bowen

.223

Turner, Loren Posey

.160

Troup, George M. Knott . 1 40

Upson, J, E. Johnson

. 059

Ware, 11. F. Osbo r ne

. 144

Washington , c. c. Rttodes .150

Wayne, W. G. Morris

. 196

Wheeler, Alston Cherry

.159

Wh it f ield, C. V. Bramlett . 006

Wilkes, T. 11. Bullard

.031

Wilk inson, If. D. Billue . 216

Guyton DeLoach, Director of the Commission, gave his praise in commending each Forester or Ranger heading the respective
Unit, and asked that "in keeping the forestland loss from wildfire to less than one-quarter of an acre out of every one-hundred woodland acres protected by your forestry unit, you have, with the cooperation of the citizens of your county, performed an outstanding service to your community and to your state."

Georgia Forestry
April, 1955
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When you burn brush or trash have water and fire fighting tools handy. Then watch the fire until it is completely out. Prevent forest fires. Keep Our State Green.

Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Atlanta, Georgia