Tryon Daily Bulletin, Fri., Jan.
Mrs. L. B. Barnette
Mrs. Geneva Ford Barnette, 71,
of Rt. 3, Inman, S. C., daughter of
the late William Broadus and
Bessie Gurley Ford, died
Wednesday morning in Spartan
burg General Hospital.
A native of Greenville County,
she was a former resident of
Tryon. She was a member of
Holston Creek Baptist Church.
She is survived by her husband,
Lonnie B. Barnette; sisters, Mrs.
Norman Brown, Mrs. Raymond
Mathis of Inman, S. C.
Services will be held today
(Friday) at 3 p.m. at Holston
Creek Baptist Church with burial
in Evergreen Memorial Gardens.
Petty Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
HOMEOWNERS BURN
“GREEN JUNK”
By Tom Byrd,
NCSU Agric. Infor.
SYLVA — Go ahead and toss
another log on the fire.
You may smoke up the
neighborhood, but you are not
going to turn North Carolina into
a desert by heating your home
with wood. Twice as much wood
will be grown in the state this
year as will be consumed.
In fact, forestry expects are as
happy as woodstove dealers over
the surging interest in wood for
home heat. What is making the
foresters happy is not that you
are beating the Arabs out of a few
petro-dollars. They are smiling
because the stuff you are
probably burning is what they
call “green junk.”
By burning green junk, the
foresters say you are helping to
pave the way for better forestry
in North Carolina.
The connection between burn
ing wood and better forestry is
clearly illustrated here in
Western North Carolina. Jerry
McAbee, area forestry agent for
the N. C. Agricltural Extension
Service, can stand on one
mountainside and see tens of
thousands of forested areas.
“This land could be producing
high quality sawtimer and veneer
logs if the green junk could be
used or removed in some way,”
McAbee said.
Most of the land — about 60
percent — is in holdings of 100
acres or less. And many of these
small woodland owners are
victims of what foresters call
“topgrading” or “highgrading”.
Their woodland has been cut
over time and time again, and
each time the logger took only the
25, 1980
best trees. The land is now
covered mainly with trees that
are crooked, forked, diseased or
of an undesirable species.
Big pulp and paper companies
have the money to remove the
“junk” and restock their land
with high quality trees. Small
woodland owners usually can’t
afford to cut wood for which there
is no market.
“A good market for firewood
would solve a lot of our forestry
problems,” McAbee said. “ We
could get rid of the junk and
either replant or allow the land to
regenerate naturally with top
quality timber trees, such as red
oak, yellow poplar, white ash,
black cherry and basswood.”
McAbee has looked into the
economics of shipping firewood
by rail from Western North
Carolina to places like Charlotte,
Winston-Salem and Atlanta.
Loggers are available who
would be willing to cut wood and
deliver it to a railhead for an
average price of about $35 a cord,
McAbee said. Wood handlers at
the railhead would probably
charge $10 to $15 a cord. Freight
charges on rail shipments
between Sylva and Charlotte are
about $21 per cord. This would
leave $29 to $34 per cord for the
person handling the wood in
Charlotte if wood retailed for $100
per cord.
McAbee said the economic
feasibility of shipping wood out of
Western North Carolina for home
heat looks better each time the
OPEC oil ministers meet.
In the meantime, McAbee is
working to develop markets
closer home. He helps woodlot
owners conduct “cut your own”
firewood sales and he has helped
“firewood producers” develop
local markets into a full time
business.
Dick Allison, an extension
forestry specialist at North
Carolina State University, said
current markets for low-grade
hardwood are probably more
limited in Western North Caro
lina than anywhere else in the
state. However, the same
situation exists to some extent all
over the state.
About 80 percent of North
Carolina’s 19 million acres of
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forestland is in the hands of about
240,000 private, small and often
absentee woodland owners. This
land is estimated to be producing
at only 40 percent of capacity.
Pulp and paper companies get
twice as much annual production
from their land.
The key to better forestry on
the smaller acreages, Allison is
convinced, is to provide an
incentive for landowners to
remove the low-grade wood and
restock. A market for firewood
could provide this incentive.
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