communication). Georgia has 

 emphasized regeneration 

 investments, particularly on 

 marginal cropland, by providing 

 comparative investment 

 information by soil series for pine 

 reforestation versus corn and 

 soybean enterprises (Gunter, 

 personal communication). VPI and 

 SU estimated an aggregate forest 

 management and harvesting 

 productivity increase of $850,000 

 as a result of short courses, 

 workshops, and other meetings for 

 3,700 landowners, foresters, 

 loggers, and others in fiscal year 

 1984 (Haney 1984 unpubl.). 



Urban Owners of Rural Land — 



Georgia and Texas extension 

 foresters have made special efforts 

 to reach nonfarm owners of forest 

 land who live in major urban areas. 

 These people have become the 

 majority among nonindustrial 

 private forest owners in some 

 States (for example, Georgia). 

 Georgia extension foresters are 

 holding seminars at individual 

 forest industry corporate 

 headquarters in Atlanta along with 

 1-day bus tours to get owners into 

 the field. One such seminar drew 

 350 people from four adjoining 

 States, who owned land in 10 

 States (Gunter, personal 

 communication). Texas has had 

 such a program in the Dallas and 

 Houston areas since 1968 and has 

 an extension specialist located in 

 Houston. Two night meetings plus 

 a weekend tour have been held 

 annually in each city, with 60 to 70 



attending (Walterscheidt, personal 

 communication). 



County Forest Landowner 

 Organizations — North Carolina 

 extension foresters first began 

 helping expedite the formation of 

 organizations for nonindustrial 

 private forest owners at the county 

 level in the late 1950's. Today 

 there are county forestry 

 associations in 60 of the State's 

 100 counties, with a total of 3,000 

 members who meet three to four 

 times per year with one meeting a 

 field tour. Industry foresters and 

 consulting foresters can 

 participate, but officers generally 

 have to be nonindustrial private 

 owners. These associations have 

 proven to be an excellent means 

 for getting improved forest 

 management on the ground carried 

 out by members, who share their 

 experiences with others as well 

 (Levi and Huxster, personal 

 communication). 



4-H Forestry — Early 4-H forestry 

 programs in Mississippi from the 

 1930s through the 1950's piqued 

 the interest and curiosity of quite a 

 number of smart young people 

 from small farms. They were 

 induced to enter the 2-year 

 preforestry program at Mississippi 

 State (which was later expanded 

 into a full 4-year program). Many 

 transferred to other colleges to 

 finish their bachelor's degrees. 

 Many southern leaders in 

 industrial. State, and Federal 

 forestry got their start in this 



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