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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER ??" ? ?? ?? 1 i ? / Town Of Waynesville Is Setting Fine Example Of Practical Forestry Watershed Brings Town $250,000 The records show that the Town of Waynesville is doing an unus ually good job in forestry. The program of the Town on the 9,000-acre watershed is proving practical and profitable. About $250,000 has been added to the town treasury from the sale of about 10 million board feet of timber. At the time the town was selling timber, over 80.000 tree seedlings were being planted on the area for a crop of saleable timber in the future. The tree seeding' plantings be gan in 1950 when TVA gave the town 25,000 seedlings. The same number were planted in 1851, with 4.000 being planted in 1952, All of these were white pines. In 1954 4,500 yellow poplars were planted, and last year there were 5,000 yellow pipes and the same number of white pines plant ed. The town purchased from ,the i state nursery 2.000 yellow poplar seedlings in 1950 and this year have bought 10,000. Planting seedlings is not the only phase of the program for the future, however, as in 1954 2.000 poplars were transplanted. These were taken from an area where they were too thick and moved to . give room for growth, and ma turity. In 1954 800 northern Red Oaks were also transplanted from the j thickly occupied areas. All this shows that preparation is being made for the future, as 1 well as reaping a profitable har- I vest at present. W. W. Davis, a forestry expert, is carrying out the work for the town, and spends his time cruising the timber stands, ana seeing that transplanting of trees, or seed lings is kept up. WHITE PINE thrives in this area, grows fast, and produces fine wood. This pictnre was made on the Champion Paper project at Lake Logan. A similar project as this Is on the Waynesville watershed. > I * N.C. Tree Farm Program Tops Million-Acre Mark ! CtCtification of seven North Carolina woocuana properties, com prising 42,053 acres, as tree farms sent the state program spiraling over the million-acre mark, ac cording to J. B. Lattay of Bolton, chairman of the North Carolina Tree Farm Committee. Addition of six new tree farms ?one of the seven properties cer tified had its acreage added as a supplement to an existing tree farm?brings the state's total tree farms to 130 and total acreage to 4^)02.890. Timberlands in the tree farm program are privately-owned tax paying lands being managed for sustained timber production. Following the meeting here, Mr. Lattay said he hopes these cer tifications will help , to interest oilier landowners in the nation wide tree farm movement. Spon sored nationally by American I Forest Products Industri es, Inc., Washington, D. C., the American Tree Farm System now has more than 7.000 tree farmers in 40 states with nearly 38 million acres of land enrolled in the industry pro gram of good forest management. To qualify as a tree farmer, an owner must demonstrate ability and willingness to manage his woodlands under accepted forest practices for continuous produc tion. Protection of the woodlands from fire and over-grazing are other major points of the program. "More and more landowners are coming to realize the importance of growing trees as a crop," Mr. ' Lattay said, i ine program is sieaany moving forward, and tree farmers are bcnefitinf themselves as well as the wood-using industries "which de | pend upon outside sources for much of their' raw materials." Certified at the meeting were lands of the following tree farm ers, listed with acreage by coun ties: ? Mrs. Guy M. Beaver of Kanna polis. 60 acres in Rowan; William L. Woods of Yadkinville, 30 acres in Yadkin; C. O. and L. A. Hogan of Route 2, Chapel Hill, 122 acres in Orange; W. C. Kelly of Route 1, Troutman, 95 acres in Iredell; Corbett Lumber Co. of Wilming ton, 400 acres in Pender; the Mead Corp. of Sylva, 35,546 acres in Jackson; Bruce B. Cameron of Wil mington, 5,800 supplemental acres in Hyde. Members of the?Tree Farm Com mittee are professional foresters, qualified to pass on the merits of woodlands over the state. They are Chairman Lattay of Bolton, Riegal Paper Co.; Harold Blanchard of Wtiiteville, Sledge Lumber Co.; J. P. Harper of Ral eigh. International Paper Co.; William Maughan of Durham, Cary Lumber Co.; Herman Hermelink of Charlotte. Duke Power Co., and J. Ray Orr of Asheville, Champion Paper and Fibre Co. The North Carolina National For est* have 32 cooperative agree ments covering financial arrange ments, road maintenance, fire pro tection, land acquisition, city water sheds. mining, forest products sales, recretional improvements, and wildlife with individuals, firms, , municipalities, and state and other federal agencies. (aternUcfa i GREEN fOBISTS | / ?KJL-.? Mill payrolls, taxes paid by forest industries, wood harvests, useful forest products?all can be counted up in hard cash. It's harder to put a price tag on recreation?fishing, hunting, picnicking?and harder still to compute in dollars and cents the vital part forests play in soil and water conservation. Green forests make our community, our state and our country strong, pros perous and beautiful. Keep them that way by being careful with fire while you're in the woods. 3 il # Keep the friendly North Carolina BANK Green The First National Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Member Federal Reserve System Organized 1902 i Watershed Progress Is Pointed Out (EDITOR'S NOTE. The follow ing article was written for The Mountaineer's forestry edition by Carl B. Dalton, service forester of the N. C. Division of Forestry in cooperation with R..A. Vogen berger, TV A forestry represen tative.) In a recent issue of Readers Di gest Peter Fauk discussed the ques tion "Is a Forest Working for Your Town?" One short paragraph in this article mentioned briefly some of the benefits derived by the Town of Waynesville and surrounding communities through the applica tion of a sound forestry program on the Waynesville Watershed. Let us take this opportunity to look, a little deeper into this program and see what it has meant and what it can mean in the future. First, let us look at the water itself. The people of Waynesville should consider themselves fortu nate indeed In having their own watershed. Wtih the ever increas ing population and growth of in dustry. the question of an adequate water supply is rapidly becoming a serious problem throughout the entire nation. How is it that Waynesville has been so fortunate? Let us turn back the pages of time some 40 or 50 years when a group of far sighted city fathers purchased 8.200 acres of mountain land at the head of Aliens Creek. All of the property had been acquired by 1B15 and for the first 30 years or so the town management did not allow the area to be used for any purpose other than as a source of water. In these early days, this was considered wise management because of the common methods of logging at this time. In 1954. the nation was nearing the end of World War II, wood and lumber needs were pressing and the town officials began to consider the possibility of using the watershed to supply some of the needed materials at the same time obtaining additional revenue from the property. The first step came in the form of a request to the North Carolina Department of Forestry and TV A Division of Forestry Relations to examine the area and determine the feasibility of a timber-cutting program. Upon examination it was found that the area held some very good timber and it was estimated that if managed properly the water shed could yield more than one million feet of lumber per acre for an indefinite period, providing, of course, the area was managed under a selective cutting opera tion; that is where each tree is examined individually and only those selected and marked for cut ting which are mature, over-ma ture and defective. Since the primary purpose of the (See Expert. Page 8) 4-H CLUB boys are being shown the proper the crest need for hundreds of thousands more method of putting out tree seedlings. Thousands still exists, of seedlings have been planted in Haywood but I What these Trees] I Mean to /6a/1 Recreation?steady jobs?lumber and plywood for homes and furniture?pulp wood for paper?taxes to support schools and government. Protected and wisely managed forests mean all these and more. They tnean insurance for water supplies and hillsides free from erosion. These are some regions why people should always be careful with fire in the woods. PREVENT FOREST FJJtES KEEP NORTH CAROLINA GREEN town Of waynesville J. H. WAY, JR., Mayor G. C. FERGUSON, Town Manager.^
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