professional forestry education 

 lagged behind that in the North 

 and Midwest (Dana and Johnson 

 1963). It follows that a high 

 proportion of the South's early 

 foresters were educated elsewhere. 



I attempted to estimate the South 1 s 

 contribution to forestry education 

 as of 1929. In that year the Society 

 of American Foresters published a 

 directory of its membership. A 

 total of 148 junior and senior 

 members were located in the 12 

 Southern States (Society of 

 American Foresters 1929). In 1985, 

 34 of these people were still 

 carried on the membership rolls. 

 Thirty-one of the 34 had received a 

 professional forestry degree. Only 

 one of these had graduated from a 

 southern school. 



By this very shaky evidence, I 

 estimate that 1 out of 31, or 3.2 

 percent, of the professionally 

 educated foresters in the South 

 near the end of the bonanza period 

 had been educated in the South. 



During the South 's Second and 

 Third Forest Periods (1930 to 1985) 



Development of University 

 Programs — After 1930, six factors 

 created surges in demand for 

 professional forestry and forest- 

 products graduates and for 

 scientists in these fields that led to 

 rapid expansion in southern 

 resident instruction programs. 



In 1933, the establishment of the 

 Civilian Conservation Corps, the 



Soil Erosion Service (later the Soil 

 Conservation Service), and the 

 Tennessee Valley Authority 

 created a demand for foresters 

 during the worst of the Great 

 Depression, when the employment 

 outlook for other professions was 

 bleak. Nationwide, enrollment in 

 forestry schools jumped by 69 

 percent from 1933 to 1934 and an 

 additional 43 percent in the 

 following year. Existing forestry 

 schools were flooded (Dana and 

 Johnson 1963). 



The South also benefited in the 

 1930's from the growth of the pulp 

 and paper industry. The industry's 

 development of wood-procurement 

 systems and forestry programs on 

 its own lands, and its initation of 

 conservation programs with 

 outside landowners contributed to 

 a growing demand for trained 

 professionals and, later, 

 technicians as well (Clepper 1971). 



During the 1930's, three new 

 professional degree programs were 

 established in the South— at VPI 

 and SU in 1936 (in the biology 

 department — forestry became a 

 separate unit and program in 1959), 

 at the University of Florida in 

 1937, and at Duke University (the 

 graduate level only) in 1938 (Dana 

 and Johnson 1963). 



World War II greatly reduced 

 enrollments, and no new resident 

 instruction programs were 

 established until 1945 (Dana and 

 Johnson 1963). But the war did 

 reveal a need for trained wood 



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