directly to the establishment of the 

 South Carolina State Commission 

 of Forestry in 1929 (Bruner 1967 

 unpubl.). Similarly, in Arkansas 

 Charles Gillett took advantage of a 

 disastrous fire season in 1930 to 

 develop a booklet and campaign to 

 dramatize the economic losses it 

 caused. This booklet had much to 

 do with building public interest and 

 pressure, which led to the 

 establishment of the Arkansas 

 State Forestry Commission by the 

 State legislature in 1931 (Widner 

 1968). 



North Carolina and Tennessee 

 farm forestry extension reports for 

 the years 1926-37 indicate types of 

 early activities and 

 accomplishments. Here is 

 Graeber's statistical report for 1930 

 (Maughan 1939). He was working 

 alone in that year; he did not have 

 an assistant until 1935 (Keller 

 1979): 



Method demonstrations held: 



Timber thinning 33 



Selective cutting 3 



Timber estimating 6 



Tree identification 2 



Result demonstrations established: 

 Timber thinning 26 



Selective cutting 3 



Planting 1 1 



Attendance at 

 demonstrations 



Attendance at other 

 educational meetings 



Black walnut seedlings 

 placed with 508 

 individuals 



Other forest tree 

 seedlings placed 

 with 15 individuals 



Radio talks 



News articles 



17,760 



25,100 



2 



60 



1 ,030 



6,137 



During the South's Second and 

 Third Forest Periods 



The 1930's brought in Franklin D. 

 Roosevelt and his New Deal. 

 Establishment of the Civilian 

 Conservation Corps, Tennessee 

 Valley Authority, Soil 

 Conservation Service, and the 

 conservation cost-sharing programs 

 of the Agricultural Adjustment 

 Administration for tree planting, 

 timber-stand improvement, and 

 naval-stores conservation practices 

 led to a great upsurge in soil, 

 water, and forest conservation 

 interest and participation. 



Extension foresters collaborated 

 with and used these programs to 

 expedite and expand improved 

 farm forest management. 

 Tennessee is a good example. In 

 the 1930 , s, extension forester 

 George Shivery started using the 

 Tennessee Valley Authority's unit 

 test demonstration farms as sites 

 for farm forest management result 

 demonstrations, as did extension 

 foresters in the other Tennessee 

 Valley States, then and later. 



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