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PA6r THtCfr Forests: T--T1 t- irr 1 Slate tc&lkm Program fa Rc-f :rc:l Idle Acres, Seedling Cisiribulcd The pioneers who first landed on the shores of North Carolina and other places on the coast of the United States probably never conceived of a tree planting pro pram except possibly for a few fruit trees. The great expanses of forest which are mentioned in many old historical documents were usually considered a hin drance to progress instead of one ol the basic raw materials for civ ilization. These early settlers would be amazed at the tremendous efforts that are now being made to refor est many idle acres in this state. The interest has grown greatly from the planting of shade trees, i dogwood and other ornamentals to ' the planting of millions of tree seedlings to reforest idle land. In the state of North Carolina a lofte, plans are being made to in crease the production of the state forest tree nurseries to a 15 mil lion capacity annually as'soon as funds permit. This year three 1 million seedlings have been dis tributed and the demand has ex ceeded the sup.ply by at least one million tree seedlings. The growing of these trees by the Division of Forestry and Parks I of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development, is an intricate problem demanding h'ghly technical skill. From the Forest tree seedlings are a vailable from the state for a bout $2.50 per thousand, the cost of production. Applications for seedlings can be obtained from ' E. M. Foreman, county warden, Core Creek. time that the unopened cones are collected in the early fall until the one year old little trees are shipped out, constant care and pro tection has to be maintained. One bushel of unopened cones of the loblolly or old field pine produces .approximately one pound. of seed ana trom mis pouna oi seea, live to six thousand trees are produc ed. Special attention has been giv en to raising longleaf pine seed lings, the tree that gave the state the slogan of tar, pitch and turpen tine. Although this industry has disappeared from North Carolina, it is hoped that through refores tation efforts, millions of these small seedlings will be planted on idle land. The interest In tree planting ex tmds from grade-school childern to adults of advanced years. The North Carolina Garden clubs last year planted 15,000 dogwood trees as a part of their program. The dogwood is by legislative action the state flower. In North Carolina it is estimated that there are at least a million acres of idle land which should be reforested, and the sooner thjs is done the more prosperous our .state will become, school forests are springing up all over the state and many land owners, large and small, are planting from one to several hundred acres every year. Forest Land (Continued From rage One) ifcants. And then they take the Diiai'icci a wui'i iu wiim me tun ber is worth. This is not only poor business, but H isn't even good common sense. The North Carolina Forest ser vice has many actual eases where they have come into the picture just in time to save the landowner hundreds of dollars and hve pre vented the destruction of hli tim. ber land, fir ont notable case. widow had been offered $2,000 for all her timber-cut clean. Instead she had a forester mark her timber. She received $2,000 for what was marked and still had 60 per cent of her stand .left. In a few years she will be able to harvest another crop from the fine young stand left on her land. Aiding Carteret county in the ?ost of protecting its forests are wo pulpwood companies which are the major landholders In the cdunty: ..International. Paper" com pany of which Southern Kraft is a subsidiary and the North, Caro , Una Pulp company. International Paper company, wKh offices at Charleston. S. C. i recently purchased the holdings of 4 Cozier Wood Packing company in thfs county, increasing their hold ings by about 1000 acres. Offices of North Carolina Pulp company art at Plymouth, T. C. Careless smokers are the biggest single cause of forest fires in North Carolina. According to figures compiled by the" North Carolina Division of Fprestry and! Parks, more than 900 forest fires were started by careless smokers in 1947. North Carolina has more than 3400 manufacturing plants which depend upon trees for their raw materials. Yet last year careless people burned nearly one million dollars worth of valuable timber In the State. The marketable pine stands in North Carolina are at least 12 per cent lower todav than Mwr worm in 19W. , i' . - - - What Fcrester Spaalis (Continued From Page One) the direct supervision of af district forester, now blanket the State, ex cept for a few counties lying in the Upper Piedmont Region. These ; Districts are broken op into a i county system of fire control, ! whereby the county forest warden I is responsible for his particular I county. The county forest warden is the key man in the fire-fighting organization. He issues all tools and eoipment for fighting and inspects the same to see that fhf y ate teot in first class con dition. He is expected to attend personalty a many .fires as pos sible during the day and night, and often he is fighting fires continuously without rest for several days and nights. He Is responsible for the renorts on all fires so that a record of dam aged timber and land may be maintained. When a fire is reported it is in vestigated at once. With such tire fighting equipment as knaps3cks, brush hooks, fire flaps raks. water buckets and axes the fire warden goes out on his job. If the fire is a large one. heavier equipment such as tractors and plows are taken to the head of the fire where a fire line is plowed to ston the blaze. As soon as Pos sible, he determines the extent of the fire, and organizes the fire fighting crew aeainst it. This mav take five minutes or five days ac cording to the headwav the fire got before it was detected. Other than fire fiannng, tiie for est warden is expected to turn in a certain amount of time on fire prevention work. Signs must be rwsted. schools must be visited, fire prevention booklets and leaf lets must be distributed. Law en forcement activities also take a ereat deal of his time He is the man who must have the co-operation of the people in his countv if he is to be successful iri his work. Public opinion is the key to his success, and to the success of the forest fire prevention throughout the entire State. Unless the neonle want to keep fires from their for ests, no amount of forest fire fiehting or prevention methods will be effective. Ar integral $art of the fire de tection system in North Carolina are the more than one hundred lookout towers scattered throwh out the protested areas, being to rw as to afford maximum vlsa bilitv. These towers, most of which are steel construction, are usually about one hundred feet in height, but even so, the number of towers has not renewed the point of overlapping visibility from adjacent towers. Therefore aux iliary observation posts have been established at different sfraeetic points. The tower of fhe Duke Chapel in Durham, the top of the Court House in Carthage an many other prominent landmarks are used as observation posts. , Knowing that most fires are matt-caused, the logical question asked the forester is "Why do peo ple burn the woods?" A recent survey by the United States De partment of Agriculture among the Southern woodland owners showed that the most common causes of wood fires were care lessness, indifference and lack of appreciation of the forest values destroyed. One out of five fires was set because of grazing, and nearly as many from attempts to kill snakes and insects. About even 'per cent were attempting to remove the fire hazards near their homes and buildings. In Carteret county a few fires are known to have been set for spite and revenge and a great many fires are set to open up the woods to improve -game habitats. Desire for excitement and thrills were the reasons for setting some fires. Thus we have a brief picture of what is happening in North Caro lina in regard to the protection of her forests from the worst of all forest enemies. The people of North Carolina have been slow to realize the dangers that have re sulted from this forest destruction. They have been slow to see that such continued forest depletion will mean disaster to the economy of the enth-e State. There are too many people and to many indus tries who depend wholly dt partly off the forests and forests products for their very existence to take the matter of forest waste so lightly as it has been taken in the past. : Fartaaately, there an and More sne and woriten1 coming' forestry-minded, realiz ing that to delay good forestry practices any longer win result In a lower standard af living for all concerned. The Getters As sembly, speaking for tfttf pftfpftr of North Carolina, took definite action toward establishing a more sound forestry program la the State. But anless every man, woman, and. child ia North Car olina becomes forestry -conscious we cannot continue to have tha , Mg standard af Bvnf mW M jay, . ' TEey Mean to Pf ft. C. WINRVTOBTH. : District Forester North. Carolina has a total for est are of approxlmatery 18,400, 009 acres, which" represents about 99 pef cent of the State's total land area. Of (his forest area, a boot one" and half million acres is In various forms of Federal ownership? the1 remaining 17 mil lion Kcres is Very largely privately owned and W the forest area with whfch the Division of Forestry and Parks is directly concerned. The above statement bears out the fact that North Carolina is a state where fhe forest resource v"Me 7 well-being 7f Wa mw . sou in thstate has a closer tie with agriculture, industry, em. IA.,Jr.f ftnAnVia tioAWt.tAn puniic water supplies, ana eieciric power production than the forest resource. - Because K contributes sa vitally to the welfare of the people and industry of the state, it should be recognized as an in tegral part of the' whole economic and social structure of North Car olina. In order to appreciate the real value of the forest resources toi til nnnnlA ff rh errata n ftr fn. I rt . f.rt. should hP hrnueht nut Of the mote" thaw W million acres of forest, about one half is on farms, yielding more than 20 dif ferent products with a value of over $50,000,000 each year. Forests help to protect fhe watersheds of over ion hvdroelectric develop ments and many municipal water supply systems. In 1943 there were 3.500 indus trial plants in North Carolina classified as primary forest indus tries, "and secondary forest indus tries constitute an important posi tion in the economy of the state. In respect to employment, all fo- rest industries of North Carolina provided work for 71,000 persons in 1944. The workers were evenly divided between woods work, pri mary plants and secondary plants, and the wages paid in the paper an pufp industry were the high est of all manufacturing industries in the state. Although it is so evident the fnrosts nlay such an important part it the economy of the state, forest stands generally are less than 50 per cent stocked. A spe cial study of fhe loblolly pine type one of the best shows only 30 per cent of the saw-timber area and IS per cent of the under sawlog - sre area satisfactorily stocked. Stands of the remainder iare progressively poorer down to the treeless areas. Since quality is definitely tied in with tree size and thrift, the kind of trees mak ing up the growing stock is of prl mary importance. In North Caro lina it too often has been fhe practice to cut all the larger and better trees; where trees are left they are too often quite small, and of poor form and inferior species. This situation calls for increas ing the utility of the forest re source by improving the quantity and quality of the growing stock through better forest practices; intensifying protection against fire, insects and disease; a reason able program of State ownership of the poorer lands; ami increased forest research in frmberland man agement, forest products utiliza tion1 and marketing. Forests have been a source of revenue and employment to the people of North Carolina from the time of the first permanent white settlement about 1650 somewhere east of the Chowan river. The seemingly boundless forest affect ed the everyday life and policies of the developing colonies. In 1732 Governor Barrington wrote to the Colonial Secretary in Eng land that "Abundance of sawmills are being erected here by which . ' trade in boards and other sawed timber." And again he wrote of "granting 9,000 acres or more to each owner of a mill. As early as 1750, long leaf pine lumber was exported from Wil mington to the West Indies and England. Exploitation of the fo rest resource did not begin on any scale, howevca, until atfer the erection of the first steam sawmill at Wilmington about 1818. From 1820 to 1880, lumber production remained at a fairly even level. Then large scale logging began in the virgin longleaf stands of the Coastal Plain and lit lest than 20 years most of them were cat ont. About 1000 the lumber industry turned to the loblolly- and short leaf pine stands, where operations have continued ever since. About this time, , too, band-sawmills b gan to cut the virgin hktfdWooda Of the North Carotin mountains. H li Tin; 1 ii I Ti the builders propose to Carry on'neeuing vnnxmv, aim nut-ipiani TREES By JOYCE KILMER I fMmt that I shaft Mver see A poem lovely as a tree, A tree whose hungry month is prest Against the tweet earth's flowing bresst; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may In summer wear A nest of robbint la her hair; Upon whose bosom snow tai !; Who intimately Uvea with rain. ' Foe sat are made by fools like me, fat esuy Gttf caa mat t jV. ': !; eT The mS "ScaT t early settlers destroyed most of the virgin timber there in clearing land fof agriculture. Fro f 900 the cut of all species wfS gradually increased, reaching some 2 billion board feel irt f909 and 2 1-4 billion board feet in the "a yent, TT4. By this time a I large' part of the rich accumulation I of Virgin timber was grine, and the forest industries began adjust-, ing requirements to the periodic F yields of second-growth timber. This adaptability to changing con ditions enabled them to continue I timber, although usually of lessef ' h"f I'8'0 most of the cut-over forest land , Of the tllSXe. Naval stores, produced first in Vtrgmia soor after 160f were sfaph products' of North Carolina; by 1700. Copper stills for the distillstion of turpentine were ifr troduced in 1834. With the pas sage of the British free-trade law of 184 and the increasing use of turpentine in the paint and var nish industries, such emphasis was pl-ced upon the production of na val stores that lumber was tern- PoMrilv of oniary importance T naval sor '"dutr? "rew " '. pidly, except for the period of the Civil War. reaching maximum production between 1870 and 1880. Tn the last vear of that decade North Carolina exported nearly half a million barrels of turpen tine. But with the expansion of longleaf pine losing, naval stores production fell off steadily, dwind ling to an insignificant 160 barrels in 1940' The present dav forest resource ; r M,.k r'ii.'t mi v. i,M ncou Ai rnnservative estimate, it has a stumpaue value 'of nearly $400,000,000. The for- ests of. the stale are also signili - cant from a regional and nstion il standpoint. Within the state's hn.inHario.! i 9 nor eont of the commercial forest land and 12 per cent of the sound wood volume in ibe South. Although North Caro lina boasts only 4 per cent of the nation's forest land and 3 per cent of its wood, its forests are so fa vored by soil and climate that they produce over 7 per cent of the total annual growth of saw timber. In 1938 North Carolina and nvre operating sawmills man any other state, and ranked first in the' South and fourth in the nation in lumber production. The annual drain on the forest resources of the state is greater than the new volume of growth. This affords a serious forest man- agement problem which together Mjny livW,g gp,. But theV will not with thOorest fife problem is IheT. their nets. This was em- primary concern of the Division of Forestry and Parks. The Div teion offers to forest land owners in North Carolina technical forest ry advice and assistance, through its management foresters, district foresters and assistant district for esters. These foresters are quali fied to give land owners and industry information and assist ance in keeping their land produc tive by establishing good cutting and protection practices. Such practices are often referred to as sustained-yield management, and must be carried on to remedy the over-all forest situation as it now exists. Two forest nurseries are opera ted by the Division. One is near Hendersonville, and one near Clay ton, in Johnson county. The com bined total poteritial outpijt rtf these nurseries is estimated to be approximately 15 million trees'. Loblolly pine, short leaf nine, long leaf pine, white pine, yellow popu lar, black locust, red cedar and black walnut are the principal species raised. With approximate- , ly one million acres of forest land . i . I ii . i :i 1 i ing It would take 87 years to do the job, running our nurseries at top capacity of 15 million trees annually, and allowing for about 1,000 seedlings per acre. Needless to say if North Carolina is to hold to its present forest industries, idle land which is only suitable to grow trees must be put into pro duction, i The forest fire control program in this State has since its begin ning been based upon a voluntary cooperative financial arrangement between the Department of Con servation and Development and tha boards of commissioners of the several counties. The program has gradually built up excellent support among the County Com missioners and the citizens, to the extent that 78 of the 100 counties ar cOMJPerstina this fiscal year. The goal of the Division is to have all )00 counties placed! under fire North Carolina ' ' mu m - i . ... I ,i .... ,.!, MM in ii nn A GOOD job of constructive, forestry was dona when the trees in this area were cut. hfaturt trees were cleared out, making room for natural reproduction of new growth from seeds dropped by the teed trees left standing: The tag oh the tree- in the foreground wsrni producers not to cut the tree. Some state require that it lesst four healthy ieed trees per acre Be left standing until the natural reproduction it at least IS feet high. State Officials (Continued From Paje' OneV Resourfes commission. j Thursday will also be guest day. ' AmonS tne uests Mpected ' I L. Ward. New Bern, member of member of the State legislature, Sgt. Tom u"- wew Bern, state nignway Patrol. James Stingley, forester in 1 iSe " ' 7"1"' t'on, Dr. J. V. Hoffman, former , dn of the forestry school, North v-amiina oian- onirni-, naiiSp. 'y Natinnnl Forest, rnd members of the Carteret county board of commissioners. To be discussed Friday will be improvement of law enforcement during the past year, review of fire statistics, revision of tower m.n, Wntinn nf forest fires and the forest nutsery program, , ate aftpmoon, and evenings will be devoted to recreation. Hunqry Germans Continue Te Keep Dogs, Cais, Chicks MUNICH (AP) Germans are hnnerv. Thev are crowded into nhmsh; in . cllmmnrv of the Mir nich city regulations which showed that 21,500 inhabitants Of the city (population 700.000) have licenses to keep animals into their dwel lings. In 1945, there were 6,(100 less. Most popular are fowl, under standable In a country where it is smart to raise chickens fo stretch the meager ration. Owners have listed 73,000 chickens, geese and other fowl. There are 31.000 rab bits. One aged woman keeps 15 dogs in her kitchen. -In the parlor of a villa h a horse. That's what the records say. protection and if Is hoped that this will be achieved in the next few years. The need for 100 per cent control is evident from the fact that the average annual fire dam age to North Carolina's forest land is approximately $1,000,000. These damages are quite conservatively estimated and in many Cases of individual fifes the damage was much heavier than these figures indicate. What the future has in store for the forests of North Carolina de pends upon (a) the continued re adjustment of the wood-using in dustries to the ever-changing tim ber supply and quality, and (b) the rapidity with which forest owners and operators will adopt better protection and management practices. The obstacles fo a full er utilization of much of the state's timber and of the waste from the timber operations are chiefly economic. Perhaps the most im portant of these is the cost of handling and transporting. None of these obstacles is unsurmount ahle and, with improved techno logical processes and equipment, uses which are now uneconomic may become good opportunities for new industrial development in the future. Clearly the forest-products in dustries constitute a valuable part Of the economic structure of North Carolina. The foret resource up on whieh thev denend is extensive, but unless thA net "Tro-vth of wood Lrnuals or excaed the average drain, the industrtet must eventu ally decline for lack of raw material. The picture of North Carolina's resources and their ef fect on the lives of all its citizens Is as simple at this; at much wood must be grown as is used. It is encouragin? to note that the for est industries of the state are' increasingly awara of the fad that better forestry practices must be extended' throughout fhe entire state if these industries are to continue in business. The" average citizen must also better realize hit responsibility in this matter if he it to continue to have the standard of living, or even a better one, than ha now enjoys. t , i ..? t' t '"1 - 5 Woodpeckers A Menace OSLO (AP) The municipal authorities in the small community of Valsoyfjord, southwestern Nor way, have declared war upon wood peckers. The birds have concen trated their efforts in an attempt 1 ,0 break down the electricity sup ply of the small community. The wooden posts, supporting the trans mission wires, have been damaged, and are now to be replaced by new cues. The authorities are paying Jl for every woodpecker killed. Smokey, The f tail year fonit Rici frihoy enough limber to Wild aver 800,000 fivt-rqpin homil Win faffed ifx mooilly el tkra Hrti? .No lljtrf iflft Lijfttrrins iraftt Ich than OM out ai tm. ii.in i inh.1 Ii, ' r -ti i ; , u I j ...- " - fti -- - - - VJj ! 1 ' "lija e CovM k b fvck rlilj at oploikxi, (parla (tm train, onto accldcnli, trc,7 No oftrfn. It'l trot that thtit itart torn llm, but compared to tk bis llr-ilailr, ky an Intlfnikcant. ' X g1" l3'"'',IJ " '" tt4tlMttV - I tuv '' It; " y - 7Bemencv you can -SCARBOnO -SMT.iT LUI1DEH CO. Lenoxville Boad B 4531 Etsshtf Fanners Given OK OnBearTrapping; Permits Needed Farmers who are snffering loss es to agricultural crops by bears, iind who are unable to destroy bears in the act of committing da mage will be issued permits to set tnips for them according to Execu- tive Director Clvde P. Pntton, of the N. C. Wildlife Resources com mission. Reports of bear depredations coming especially from cmintii-s in the eastern section of the state have made action by the Wildlife Resources commission necessary. Pstton said. I Under state law, the Wildlife Re- j sources commission" . . . shall have ; power to issue permits to kill any species of birds or animals which may become seriously injurious to agriculture or other interests in j any particular community, or such birds or animals may be captured alive by it or under its discretion and planted in other sections of I the Mate tor restocking, or may be disposed of in such other man l nor as it may determine: l'rovidvd, i that birds and animals committing depredations mav be taken at any time without a permit while com mitting, or about to commit, such depredations. Any permit issued pursuant to this section shall ex , pile within four months after the 1 I oaie 01 issuance. i Bears may not bp taken in any manner other than provided fur. in the law. In cases where farmers are not able to pprehend and kill bears in the act of committing damage to crops, special permi'.s to I rap them may be issued. Farmers who wish to trap bears must eonl act their local game pro tector who will determine whether actual damage has been caused. If it is apparent that a permit to trap bears is justified, game pro- Fire-Prevent in "Who set the 100,000-home bonfire?" 1 Yurii lof rlx f bis voarmlfa woro Sro IttMtt fkM ofto1 aors vocorlM Wont Aawfco'v HwfM ty w r rbii ITOlnt oi.iifMi bWyl H U kntMMtiv Htal fm W Philippine Vttetm Beceivr Homesteads MANILA (AP) FilipWl veterans who served with thf American Army are being sent to the almost untouched wilderness oi Mindanao island under U. S. Vet erans Administration ausp ces to carve out netf lives for thtmwelvcs in the jungle. The VA announced tha. the fast group of 24 ex-soldiers left in mid July from Manila to begin on ths farm training The VA will pio vide subsistance allowances. The Philippines is giving the ooldiet-s homesteads. is a nior.fi'.- und.' Inking. Prig. C.en R. B. f.ovftt, VA locj manager stid: "It will be neces sary for them to build h')u-es and roads and clear land to estaoiish I their ronimunitv. The" -we tkin? i farm animals, tents, carperter tools and farm equipment. Mvv are ! confidently taking their fam.'ies." I Another hazard will be provided ' by th presence in the nearby mountains of a gang of holdout Japanese stragglers who bavo been reported to have indulge I in kidnapping and even some cannibalism. Thirty technically trained for esters are employed bv the North Carolina Division of Forestry and y Parks. These foresters are quali- t, fied to give management advice to timber owners throughout the State. tevlors will recommend that a ner m'if h'e' issued bv his ilistri-t super . visor. Permits will be issued im mediately and without charge by district supervisors. i Locations of bear'traps must be - . clearly marked to prevent acel- dents to people who might be en- d.mgered. District game protectors will make sure that adequate no tice is posted around bear traps. Permits to trap bears will be r issued only to land owners or te- ' nants. All bears trapped or killed in the act of damaging crops must be turned over to gam' protectors for disposal to charitable organiza tions for use as food. Bear, Asks . . . Trim, ii k crtmWi cmy IMxftf Nof Tky itarttd only imafl (ronton f tW forr tat rkat mohJ amf bsnwd vr AjMKlct'i Nairn lor)b Utt yrar. 4 ! I fd catOrttT AJMoat H lonit tm 9af 10 t b tmt m tonti by tftot AuMiftEaR cWfioWf Mro ylsaf CcNtviraiti rob AiMrfca of Amit of Sonus ytorlyf tiro. AaHrlco iMMtoaitl SI 0 i I
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