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?Continued 1- rum Page On* t FOREST PAYS ; OFF IN TREES. : GAME. TOURISTS j i.us shaped Forest Service pol- I icies toward grazing, {arming i U..U lugging o.i me watei sheas | which It eel the mountain lanes | ..it forest Service also is pro tecting tne walcisiitus ui Uu- ; inerous cities (Brevard, Marion I and Hendersonville are ex- 1 amples i and industries like the gnat Ecusta and champion I i apcr companies and the Enka 1 >.ay oil corporation. . inc l/u?sliun of Timber The Nantahala forest, besides raiiKing mg.'i'tn annual rainfall, alio is unique in the varie ty ot native trees to be found ... uie coves and along the ridges. A man making the trip 1 iks-m u*c ^icumom to tile o,Uuu iuot pearjs oil tne x emiessee line v?..i ooserve more different spe cies 01 uees tnan he win unu .a a trip across all oi Europe, from uie oritish Isles to Tursey. uie early li/jU's wnen J. I uc.ueit btone, now regional I loi ester for tne 11 Southern suites, was assistant supervisor oi the Nantahala forest, the lougnmcent American chestnut accounted for 50 to 60% of the on these mountains. In those years the blight was just reaching the Nantahala country. Today all the chestnuts I are dead. The blight was the most damaging blow ever struck I our mountain counties. Even to day the whitened trunks of dead chestnuts accounts for 19% of ' tne commercial timDer in the Nantahala forest. Mr. Stone estimates that there are ouu.uuu.OOO board feet of saw logs in the forest today. He re ports that the growth is run- 1 ning along at an estimated 12, 000,000 board feet each year. The Forest Service policy is' to narvest the timber crop as it 1 matures. However, since large tracts m the Nantahala are now understocked, the service is lim Iting the yearly cut to some thing like 7,000,000 feet. The remainder (5,000,000 feet each year) is reinvested in forest capital until the Nantahala reaches full production. At the time the annual growth will be cut from the land' as it matures. in 1944, when war demands Heavy Wartime Cut were heavy, almost 50 million board feet of timber were cut off the Nantahala forest alone. Today the annual cut is run ning along at 30-40 pillion board feet, about 7 million in green timber and the remainder in dead chestnut. Most of the timber is logged by mountain people (a result oi a policy to lit forest use into the local economy) and it is logged on a selective basis. Be fore a tract is cut over, trained foresters mark the mature trees and they also mark the cull rees which should be removed | o permit the maximum produc- : ion of quality timber. Recently loggers completed heir work on a tract whleh ran irom Way an Crest uowa to juiy Jonn Creek tn the heart jf in? Nantahala forest. Mov-^ ing tnrough this tract (on loot and by cart, a casual ooserver scarcely would be aware that the land has been logged. This sort ol cutting represents the harvesting of a crop, not the exploitation 01 a natural re source. The sustained yield program of uie Forest Service insures the native people ol steady em ployment and it also insures mat heavy consumers of logs (like the pulp mills at Canton and Sylva > will have a source of supply In the future. Returns 25 Per Cent The Forest service returns 25% of the income from the timber sales to the counties in lieu of taxes. In Graham codn ty 72% of the forest land lies within the Nantahala National Forest. During 1944 the timber sales weie large and Graham aiarriy realized 16 cents an acre from this rebate. Last year th? Nantahala paid an average of e cents an acre to the counties trom timber sales, about the amount formerly realized In ^Another 10% from timber sales is used for the upkeep ol the 250 miles of Forest Service maintained roads. These roadi are heavily used by residents ol the county. ill North Carolina, where, ac cording to Regional Forester Stone, we are cutting 8% more timber each year than we grow this sustained yield program is important. Without it we would continue to dip into our capita instead of living off the annual income produced by our forests But the program of the United States Forest Service Is only a short skip in the right direction There are 18 million acres ol commercial forest land in North Carolina. Of this only one mil lion acres are in national lor ests. The state, counties and municipalities own some and tht rest (about 16.5 million acres) is privately owned. Of the privately owned for est roughly 10 minion acres art on small farms. Until the in dividual farmer can be educated to use his forest land properlj and to treat trees as a crop North Carolina is likely to con tinue dipping into its capita: reserve. Mr. Stone says that thi! educational problem is the big gest headache faced by the For est Service in the South today. The Game and Fish Crops The game and fish producer in the forests also are consid ered crops and are harvestec each year. There are 1,290 mile: of trout and bass streams oi the Nantahala National Forest Each year these are stocked ant opened to the public orn specifi ed days. Last year 12,768 fisher men worked the waters of thi Pisgah National Forest. In th< Nantahala the number wa MACON THEATRE Matinee 3:15 ? Night 7:15 - 9:15 Friday Oct. 1 Tyrone Power In "Mark .of Zoro" Saturday Oct. 2, Double Feature Program Gilbert Rowland In "Riding The California Trail" Leon Erroll In 'Jod Falooka and The Knockout' Owl Show at 10:30 Out at 12:00 O'clock "Trail To Alcatraz Sunday Oct. 3 Marsha Hunt In "Inside Story" Monday and Tuesday ? Oct. 4 and 5 V Wednesday and Thursday- --Oct. 6 and 7 UNIVERSAL' INTERNATIONAL I . orescnU ?U?.w - Sate ION CHANEY Tki Wolfman pltyttf by DracuJa plirri b j BfU LU60SI TH Monger *jrri ky GLENN STRANGE ?nHl?r (1.5S6) but U% of th? flihtrmen in the Nantahala made limit catchea against only tf% for the Plsgah. j Working with the North Car- I i bllna Wildlife Resources com mission, the forest Service helps m aaage tour areas on the Nan tahala (Fires Creek, Standing I Indian, Wayah Bald and San- 1 teetiam, wnere annuai nun^s i are held for black bear, wild boar and deer. The lorest also provides some racoon, 'possum and fox hunting, and there Is the basis for some excellent fu ture gunning for grouse. Except lor bear? 20 were tak en oif the Santeetlah manage ment area last year ? most of the hunting is in the stage where stocks are being rebuilt, j These streams and game areas along with the ALUOA and i VA lakes provide an important at traction for tourists. It Is difficult to evaluate the watershed management work of tne Forest Service in terms ot dollars and cents, it is even more difficult to guess at tne part played by the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests in our tourist industry. But with out question those forests are i bringing many millions ol dol lars' worth of tourist business ' to this state each year, j The forests, along with the ' Qualla reservation and the Smoky Mountain National Park, 1 embrace a*ii area of something , like four million acres mot ah j publicly owned, of course) and this area contains some of the finest mountain scenery in tne ! Eastern United States. Moreover" ? the area is within relatively easy reach (200 miles) of some ; 13,000,000 people, it oners a summer climate vastly superior to that found in the surround ? ing natlands. j Tourists are aware of the j highly publicized fcimoKy Moun 1 tain Park, but not many vis itors appreciate the recreational I resources of the national lor i ests- Certainly lrom the stand point of accessibility the Nanta ; ^a'a and Pisgah forests oner ( more than the Smoky Mountain Park. There is one major road through the park while the two . ioresis are threaded by 11 im ; portant U. S. highways. Al?ng the highways in the Nantahala National Forest there are nine picnic areas, one maj , or camping place (with trailer space) and two (Arrowood Glade I ancl Cliffside Lake) combination r areas where swimming is avail able. The same sort oi develop ' ment is found in the Pisgah ( forest. 5 ''ft scenic resources of the Nantahala forest equal those found any place in the South ern Appalachians. During June and the front part of July the 1 },aUr? ' pink and purple rhodo, . en"ron and azaleas wash the 1 mountains in progressive wave.* s ? J color- Then. along about Oc l the hardwoods take fire with the first frosts and the ? Cowees, tne Nantahalla, u,? Balsams, the Snowbirds and the - ?heo?hs are a roiung, S.X.O..C ? hazed blaze of color. s Nantahala gorge (placi s ?. !^e noonday sun in Cheio - e legend), the Shooting Creel i d1S,1- .the view from Wayal Ba d, the many white wate falls- Dry Fall., Bridal Veil Cullasaja Falls? and the mile after-mile of twisting moun win roads (try the Windini Stairs) open up a lush, unoe . lievably green mountain coun. try which is delightful to per .sons accustomed to corn ant cotton for vegetation. If you prefer the back coun try away from the car windov sight-seers, then the Nantahals n 5,? Pis&ah) will serve yoi well. For long walkers there i; the Appalachian Trail, whict runs from Mount Oglethorpe lr Georgia north some 2,050 mile' to Mount Katahdln in Maine Ana the Appalachian Trail i/ just one link in the 320-mile system of horse and footpath! which thread the forest. | The finest tract of virgin cove WATCHES Elgin, Bu'iova's and Parker* DIAMONDS Keepsake and Columbia well known national maker* SILVERWARE 1847 ROGERS and Community brands JEWELERY Ring*, Bracelets, Necklacesses, Tie Sets, Cigarette Lighters, Watch Bands, and etc Grover Jamison Jeweler htrdwuufta In the Solith* Hi highlands 11 loftkted Ota the Jay** Kilmer Memorial Forest, a part of the Nantahala, in Orataam eounty. This 3,840-acre area was selected affer a nationwide search and In 1938 it was set aside in remembrance of tne lnan who Wrote ' Trees." The Joyce Kilmer forest can be reached by car but the 101 est Itself must be traveled cn foot. There are 20 miles of trails. It Is a place floored In fern and liurel and rhouodren dron, where trees drive upward in 170-foot columns and flitei the sun until the light is as soft as forest murmurs. Yellow pop lars six feet through shoulder dark hemlocks almost as large along the creeks and . on the cupped sides of the coves. | Except for the Joyce Kilmer tract? a memorial to man anu to a time which has escaped us ?the Nantahala forest does not have an idle acre. Mr. Renshaw : and his staff of rangers have put the forest to work. They an , Duilding up the spc.ige-like soil cover which protects the water sheds; they are raising annual crops of timber and of fish and game, too; and they are re:;u lating the harvesting of tiuse crops in such a way that the New Seivss Be ldlng and Loan Stock Opens October 1 There's no easier way to SAVE Ask us for details MACON COUNTY BUILDING & LOAN Association Bank of Franklin Bldg. yield li A perpetual yield. 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