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GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION 

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This Commission, created at the last ses- 

 sion of the Legislature, has begun activi- 

 ties, looking to the conservation of Geor- 

 gia's forest resources, in earnest. Though 

 no appropriation was made available for its 

 work, voluntary contributions from enthu- 

 siastic citizens have made it possible to go 

 ahead. C. B. Harmon, secretary of the 

 commission, points out that unless immedi- 

 ate action is taken to preserve the present 

 timber and protect the young trees already 

 growing, all Georgia lumber will have to 

 be imported at high prices, made higher 

 with the freight rates. 



The Legislature authorized the appoint- 

 ment of an investigative committee to re- 

 port on forestry conditions in the state, 

 and the Governor appointed J. H. Mills, 

 of Jackson, representing the farming inter- 

 ests; E. M. Thorpe, of Townsend, of the 

 pine belt; Mrs. Robert Berner, of Macon, 

 a prominent club woman ; Boitnell !H. 

 Stone, Blairsville, hardwood section; M. L. 

 Brittain, State School Superintendent; J. 

 Phil Campbell, Athens, Director of Exten- 

 sion ; L. W. McCalla, State Geologist and 

 Mrs. Lollie Belle Wylie, Publicity Chair- 

 man. 



An ambitious program already mapped 

 out by the Commission includes the cir- 

 culation of literature to every citizen who 

 is interested in forest conservation in the 

 State. 



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SYRACUSE WELCOMES NELSON 

 BROWN 



Nelson Courtlandt Brown has returned 

 to his former work as head of the Depart- 

 ment of Forest Utilization at the New 

 York State College of Forestry at Syra- 

 cuse. 



Mr. Brown left the College in May, 1917 

 to accept an appointment as Lumber Trade 

 Commissioner of the United States De- 

 partment of Commerce and the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers Association to in- 

 vestigate the effects of the war upon the 

 lumber trade of Europe, the results of the 

 destruction of the forests to maintain the 

 fighting armies along the various fronts and 

 the possible needs for American lumber 

 after the war. In connection with this very 

 important work Mr. Brown toured all the 

 principal lumber producing sections of the 

 United States and Canada, with the Lum- 

 ber Commission, and spent two years in 

 Europe. He was a great deal of the time 

 along the active fighting fronts in France, 

 Italy and the Balkans, and investigated 

 forestry practice and the lumber industry 

 in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, 

 Italy, Greece, Serbia and portions of 

 Northern Africa. 



Colonel W. B. Greeley, head of the For- 

 estry regiments and Chief of the United 

 States Forest Service, arranged to have Mr. 

 Brown transferred from the United States 

 Department of Commerce to the War De- 

 partment, and while in this position as 

 Civilian Engineer of the American Expe- 

 ditionary Forces, he purchased in Spain 

 lumber, railroad ties and other supplies for 

 the United States Army. 



As a result of his investigations, Mr. 

 Brown has published two monographs 

 through the United States Department of 

 Commerce, "The Lumber Market and Re- 

 construction Requirements in Italy" and 

 "The Lumber Market in Spain and Portu- 

 gal." He recently issued a book entitled 

 "Forest Products, Their Manufacture and 

 Use" which has been adopted as a text 

 book in many of the forestry schools and 

 universities. Mr. Brown has also written a 

 number of valuable articles for lumber 

 trade journals, and popular and scientific 

 magazines. 



Since completing his work with the Grov- 

 ernment he has been actively engaged in the ' 

 domestic and foreign lumber trade as a 

 partner in the .'\merican Woods Export 

 .\ssociation, 30 Church St., New York 

 City and the American Woods Company, 

 being also closely affiliated with the Amer- 

 ican Lumber Sales Company which took 

 over the contract for the disposal of 135,- 

 000,000 feet of the surplus stock of the 

 United States Shipping Board. Mr. Brown 

 returned to Europe in 1919 and spent the 

 winter of 1920 as consulting adviser to the 

 Republic of Czechoslovakia on the manage- 

 ment and exploitation of the Hapsburg 

 Crown Forests which recently came into 

 the hands of the new republic. He made 



