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JsHistory Fire Cc fire control by a " besan in a small with the Legisla' of the basic of forest fire laws. This * ,w carried no fiscal "" ar. l was adminstyoi th Carolina Ceo'Economic Survey immediate pre-1 ?a# f" ... .h,. present Depart-. \ -v.it >:t and Deve- j ; However, cooperation j L I'r.itetl States Forest .vjjt time enabled the 'J.', appomt a few part'wardens principally counties, whose du-i -f largely eduactional. fjceral cooperation was the Weeks Law of ??ist< Of front S380 II y between 1915 E for ] ayment of fire I olmen in the I the State. I rere made direct I by the Federal! I. certification; rest r of their; I "" r I terest to note that [ st Fori stei" was I ll use in 1915. | [ : this official. L jetrtrei a forestry Ex-' U Geological and Econt die State Forester was L a: assistant to take ; |jf the fue-control work. | L star was appointed I p title of Chief Forest t-'r" Between 1915 and tX repot ts on the oc- j t of forest files were 1 t front data furnished by r correspondents throughI the years 1915-20, the 3! work that was act- j red out was done large-! t.r:dual landowners and ! Protection Associations. | s: of these Associations J xd ur.der the leadership ' Pate Forester, and they of groups of forest I rs whose property was 1 sand who handled th*ir. Moatrol work throug i ssments on a per-1 the General Assembly : first law authorizing n'. Counties to cooperate with the Survey in i rf forest-fire protec-! lur.ber of Counties took j i advantage of this au- j ir. ar.d during 1921, | * :f County money was , 'he work. In 1922 this " as about S931. and in nse to about S3.500. ' -forest Wardens, under 1 telle compensation, had ' wr.ted in about twenty- 1 lies ar.d were being su ~ two salaried forest- 1 -* field who were called '< f'-iesters. ? the General Assembly 1 the Geological and Srrvey as the Depart- 1 ! Conservation and Deve- ! At that time the Fed-;1 available under the 1 ,c% Law of 1924 1 K to the Week Law) for ' nit in the State ' ' 530,000 annually, and IbtT rVn.tl? 1 owperaunj , State appropriated an , Jl'j ^B-'- the first lookout tow- < H*utneted v>v the State . n .,vas a wooden Cameron Hill in Har^?-"y During the next - twenty-five steel' a few miles of con^B '--shone line were: the State Forest Serv-, M f the Fed^Bt.erjer.cy Conservation ' ^ppam in l&:;3. the tow-1 made rapid strides. ^B^i telephone lines were I * C. C C. Camps un- ' state Forester's direc- I Counties. At present, action and reporting' * the State Forest Servof ninety-one lookout, seven more on or-1 ^fchthe CCCi and about 1( and fifty miles of m (telephone lines. Plans 1 ^FPkte State-wide detec- f hew ever, call for 1 hundred and thirty- ' and about fifteen l< miles of telephone line. I < ^Bjtfty-nine percent of \ ^Br^na's-one million ac- il area is forest land. |i the value of the land l< the worth of the 11 ^F^cts cut from them,l values from the stand-11 ^ hate and fish and re-': Watershed protection, W** in wood-using in-1' it is conservatively ' 1 ^Ffiat this state has an l investment oL 11 ^F m its forest iands. \ I ^H'der&i Government, (i ' Of Forest >ntrol In State through several of its branches, owns and gives adequate fire protection to nearly 1.500.000 acres of forest land in the State. The remainder of nearly seventeen million acres is largely privately owned. It is this latter area with which the Department of Conservation and Development is concerned. In 1930. the State had some ten million acres of this under a measure of fire protection. During the depression years, this protected area dropped as low as six and three-quarters million acres. At the present time, it has risen to about 11.720.000 acres. Furthermore, at present, fifty-eight of the State's one hundred Counties are cooperating financially with the Department in this work. PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, for" the defense and protection of those liberties which we as citizens of North Carolina and the United States of America enjoy and arc pledged to defend, a permanent reservoir of natural resources is essential; and WHEREAS, the forest? of North Carolina constitute one of our most valuable resources from which materials for the construction of barracks, ships, planes, wharves and other military and civilian essentials can be obtain,1 . nxJ cu, anu . WHEREAS, the forests products industries of our state rank third in importance, being exceeded only by tobacco and ttxtius: and the forest land represents about 60'r of our States total land area, our state ranking first among ali the states :n the American Union in the number of operating saw mills and four ..h in a total lumber production, a'\VHEREAS. during the year 1841 728,94" acres of privately owned -forest land in North Carolina and burned over by fire, a WHEREAS, only 1'' of the state's forest fires are caused by lightning and the remaining 99 , resulting from the acts of man and classified as preventable and the interest and welfare of the citizens of this state and the cause of national detense are involved in the reduction of fire losses and the preservation of our national resources: V o W. THEREFORE. 1 JMELVILLE BROUGHTON. for the purpose of bringing the matters abov mentioned to fhe a^ tention of the people cf Noith Carolina, and for the purpose of stimulating more interestt in. th. etfort., to protect and pre the forest resources of our state, do hereby designated and P claim the week of March 15th2lst. which includes Arbor Day on Friday March 20th. as FOREST PROTECTION WEEK, and Si vpon all public officials, agencies of the press and radto. state's various law enforce ment agencies, the seh^^ J r j sr zst-Ass the ensuing year to P t MJSSrw Governor Erection Of Ar"'f,nh Camps Big J?f) 0ne of thrust carpentry jobs of all time was begun ^ September, 1940wlhen ^ ^ Army called upon the * fS industry to inmillion men. . 2 billustry delivered mor 0ver Hon board feet of himl*r^ 50 Army camps in Ninety Forest Towers Owned A t. CarvifP TIOW I ne fttait ri/icoi uv> ...v 3wns and operates about 90 for3St fire lookout towers and some )00 miles of telephone line in its 'ire detection system. Most of these towers, and particularly those within 75 miles of the loast, are already actively includ3d in the growing: network of Aircraft Warning Observation Posts. Such towers represent deal "spotting" posts for air:raft, whether friendly or hostile. Forest Service 'phone lines, being argely in isolated areas or along secondary roads, are often subjected to more than their share > f "insulator-shooting." Such vandalism now might easily represent the difference between prompt telephonic reporting of suspicious aircraft over our coast ?nd untold delay in such reporting. r ? ???????? j Cut Out Canopy Of Forest Smoke During these times of alertness along our Atlantic seaboard we j cannot afford to tolerate the | dense canopy of forest fire smoke | which has afflicted those coastal I ! areas so often in the past. Such j a smoke-screen, extending as it \ often has even for some miles j out to sea, might well constitute j an invitation to some hostile a..-1 tion. Forest fires ? and their j sir.' ke?must be abolished. Pulp Industry Shows Big Growth One of the outstanding deve: lopments affecting forestry in j the South during the last decade | has been the rapid expansion of 1 the pulp and paper industry. During this period, about $150,000,000 of new capital has been invested in this region in the j | form of new pulp mills or addi-1 tions to old ones. North Carolina j has shared in this development. J Obviously, these pulp mills are' every hit as dependent upon an i adequate and lasting wood sup- j ply as are the sawmills. The ans-1 wer lies in forest protection and . wise and scientific forest management. "Doctor," said the patient, "I'm bothered with a curious pain. | , When I bend forward, stretch j out my arms, and make a semi- i circular movement with them I feel a sharp stab in my left 1 shoulder." i I ' i J T JL The Man, V Precaut 1 THE STATE PORT PILOT, History Of Foi In State Of IS By J. S. HOLMES, STATE FORESTER When the new North Carolina ' Geological Survey was established in 1891, authority was given i to the State Geologist, Mr. Joseph A. Holmes, to conduct "forestry investigations," and Mr. W. W. Ashe, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, and of Cornell University, was appointed an assistant in charge of timber investigations in June, 1891. Mr. Ashe continued his somewhat intermittent connection with the Survey until 1909. when he resigned to accept a permanent position with the United States Forest Service. From 1891 to 1905, when the Survey was reorganized as the North Carolina Geological and Ecnomic Survey, and Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt was appointed State Geologist, an average of somewhat less than S900 per year was expanded by the Survey for forestry investigations. During this! period a number of important informational and educational reports were prepared and published. Following the resignation of Mr. Ashe, the position of Forester in the Geological and Econ-! omic Survey was offered to Mr. John S. Holmes, who had for several years been carrying on won; wun tne unueti states | Forest Service throughout the southern states. Mr. Holmes ac"he Bes s Beffl GET Protection Of Our foman And Child I ion To Protect Our < or esc ton Pi SOUTHPORT, N. C. est Program * forth Carolina cepted the position and started. work June 1, 1909. Cooperation I ivas secured from the United States Forest in a study of forest conditions and Bullentin 20. "Forest Conditions in Western North Carolina" was published in : 1911. Following this a series of Press Bulletins on the timber re- j sources of the various Piedmont I Counties was issued from time to time, uj) to 1919, when federal cooperation in this study was withdrawn. A study of the WoodUsing Industries of the State was made in 1909-10 under a cooperative agreement with the United States Forest Service and published in the latter year as Economic Paper Number 20. This study was revised "under a similar agreement ten years later and published as Bullentin 30. During the last few years of Mr. Ashe's connection with the | Survey he had made repeated efforts to secure constructive leg-1 islation for the protection of the j forests of the State from fire. [ This effort was continued under a somewhat broadened program j by Mr. Holmes and a proposed j bill was prepared and introduced into the General Assembly at each successive session. It was not. however, until 1915 that the basis of the present fire law was enacted. Although the fire law of 1915 carried no appropriation, cooperation with the United States Fort Tim0 Forests Is A Job w n Brunswick Coun Wood Lands?Let Prote rotecti ?st Service enabled the Survey to j appoint a few part-time forest j wardens whose duties were large- j ly educational. In the latter part | of 1920 the State Forester was i allowed an assistant to take j charge of the forest-fire protec- j tion work of the Survey and Mr. W. Darrell Clark was appointed! Chief Forest Fire Warden. Between the passage of the 1915 law and the appointment of the Chief Forest Fire Warden, the annual reports on files from vol- j untary correspondents were pub-1 lished as Economic Paper Num.1 ber 4S, "Forest Fires in North i Carolina. During 1915-16-17," and ] Economic Paper Number 51,1 "Forest Files in North Carolina FARM YOUTH TO ENROLL FOR MOBII.IATION WEEK National 4-H Mobilization! Week, April 5-12, will afford North Carolina's 60,000 club members an even greater opportunity to do their part in the war | effort, says L. R. Harrill, 4-H Club leader of the N. C. State | College Extension Service. A concei ted effort will be made to reach every young: person eli- ] gible for membership, and followup work will be continued through the summer. During the late fall, a National 4-H Achievement i Week will be observed at which results of the 4-H program will be reviewed and recognition giv- ] en to club members, leaders, and j clubs for accomplishments in the i Victory program, Harrill pointed out that these farm youngsters have already accomplished much in the Nation's drive for victory. They have col- j lected usable scrap materials, I to ... ire It THI m k V ?sSa ti ^1 mm ' Wt'"'9 * W %' W :?' ' I ; Jr Jr Starts! s is hich Calls For The ty, Resolve Now' 's Make Every Wei ction ve hi WEDNES1 Little Cities A) Not Immune Little cities and towns in > costal states, like North Caro-;o lina, arc as apt to the bombed p from the air as some of the big- j e ger plares. But the smaller cities jare not well organized to take J f, care of civilian defense. !o Last week and this week, in a j" series of meetings around North J1 Carolina, mayors and other offi- j1 cials of the little cities and the . big cities are getting together to! j see what can be done about it.! Officers of civilian defense or-j ganizations and members of j county commissioners have also j been invited to attend. .e Six meetings are being held, j1 1 * - ? * - Cl lit ci 11?Ill according iu c. w. omcuucig, president of the North Carolina ^ League of Municipalities which is 11 sponsoring the series for local |" government officials. Meetings c were held at Burlington March 0 12. Greenville March 13, and are v to be held at Fayetteville March 16, Charlotte March 17, Asheville J March 18, and Hickory March 19. Smedberg, who is city man- j ager at Greensboro, announced that Daniel W. Hoan, Field Representative of the Washington | Office of Civilian Defense will e speak at each meeing. Hoan was ^ mayor of Milwaukee for 24 years before becoming a natural, jj figure in civilian defense work. ; I planned gardens, increased food t and feed projects, and conducted d a more intensified health and 1 citizenship training program. li INI I ? ! Co-operation Of [o Exercise Every F ek.... Week isociati JAY, MARCH 18, 1942 nd Towns : To Bombing Smedberg said the municipal fficials discussed their mutual roblems of defense, and receiv- . d definite instructions from loan and North Carolina Deense Director, T. S. Johnson, on rganizing and carrying on civiim defense and protective activiies in all types of municipal!ies. fini be Hands Are Now Understocked i.:e findings of the U. S. Forst Survey show conclusively hat the South's timberlands are nderstocked. "VV i t h adequate ire protection and good forest nanagement the growing stock n many localities of the South ould be doubled in two or three ecades," say officials connected i-ith the 3'irvey. Home Insulation Expert Here Jesse E. Hardy, Fayetteville, in he past two weeks, has insulatd the homes of C. L. Taylor, trthur Fowler and L. Baggett, Jr. Hardy will be in Whiteville gain next week. He says that le has insulated 350 houses in fayetteville with rock wool in he past year and that not only Ices his product insulate against leat and cold, but reduces fire lazard. I f If f HE i i Every 'ossible w L Ion 0 f
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