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3 _ Percent of the forest land under cooperative protection 
in the different survey units is as follows: 
ser, 
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Combined south units (10.5 million acres)... .....-.02-02+-0--05- 35 
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North-central unit (2.5 million acres). .........-.ceeececeeeeeess 5 
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In south Georgia, where timber-protective organizations 
have been developed, cooperative forest-fire protection 
has been given to a larger area than in any other part of 
the State, but still almost two-thirds of the forest lands 
there are not so protected. In north Georgia, owing 
largely to the presence of a national forest that includes 
21 percent of the forest land, nearly half of the total 
forest area has organized forest-fire protection. 
In central and north-central Georgia, cooperative fire 
protection is in its early stage of development; in neither 
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Figure 3.—Cooperative forest-fire protection 
in these veral survey units, 1939. Figures in 
parenthesis indicate millions of acres. Data 
furnished by the Georgia State Forester. 
of these important areas does it cover more than 10 per 
cent of the forest. The State forest service and extensio: 
agencies are working to improve this situation, but the 
large number of small holdings makes it a difficult task. 
In central Georgia alone, for example, there were 64,000 
farms in 1935, and the dissemination of forest-fire protec- 
tion and other forestry principles among the majority of 
these landowners will require time and the concentrated 
efforts of all forestry agencies. 
Increased public aid, both State and Federal, is required 
to improve materially the fire-protection situation, but 
very encouraging is the recent adoption of a State consti- 
tutional amendment authorizing counties to appropriate 
money for this purpose. In 1939, 12 counties were using 
this means of raising funds to be employed in matching 
the State funds, and it is believed that additional counties 
are ready to start this work as soon as the State has funds 
for its share. 
STATE TOTAL 
(21.4 MILLION ACRES) 
