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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



To summarize, the first step in forestry in Georgia's 

 mountain harawoods is largely economic and legisla- 

 tive, and its purpose is to give us a growing stock to 

 work with. The second step is the regulation of the 

 yield of this growing stock in unit areas, coupled with 

 more intensive silviculture than can be practiced under 

 present limitations. The second step will follow hard 

 upon the first in fact, on our National Forests, of which 

 Georgia claims a share in her mountain region, we are 

 already entering upon the stage of forest regulation, 

 and are beginning at the Appalachian Forest Experi- 

 ment Station, the studies of the reproduction and the 



phases, the opportunity thus offered, and analyses are 

 being made of the results of some of the early en- 

 deavors. In addition, however, the program of the Sta- 

 tion for the current year carries a number of projects 

 dealing with the management of the mountain hard- 

 wood forests. It is significant that with but one ex- 

 ception these projects deal with the two subjects of 

 hardwood reproduction following cutting, and forest 

 protection. These subjects are related properly to the 

 introductory phase of forestry, and reflect the need for 

 immediate information upon the preliminaries of forest 

 practice. This, however, is in the nature of preparatory 



VELLOW POPLAR IS EAGERLY SOUGHT BY THE LUMBER INDTCTRY. 'T SHOULD NOT BE EXTERMINATED FROM THE FOREST 



BY CONSTANTLY CULLING IT OUT FROM AMONG OTHER SPcCIES. 



growth of the forest in relation to logging which must 

 underlie a sound and successful program of timber 

 raising. 



The Appalachian Forest Experiment Station, which 

 was established at Asheville, North Carolina, last July, 

 will work primarily on the problems which are arising 

 in connection with the mountain and Piedmont forests. 

 Asheville, situated in the heart of the Southern Appa- 

 lachian hardwood region, less than 60 miles from the 

 Georgia line, has been called the "cradle of American 

 forestry," for it was there that some of the earliest 

 work in forestry on this continent was done. The work 

 at the station has naturally followed, in its opening 



work, and as rapidly as it is cleared away the Station 

 will concern itself with the maze of technical problems 

 which relate to the intensive phase of forestry which is 

 inevitably approaching and may not be so very far in 

 the future. 



Georgia is now, it is to be hoped, at the threshold 

 of a forestry career. Before proceeding further it 

 would be well to consider the relative timeliness of the 

 two classes of problems which have been touched upon 

 in this paper, and the emphasis which each should re- 

 ceive at the present stage in forest work in Georgia. 

 There is just a bare chance that a forestry program 

 just hatched might suddenly discover itself, to its de- 



