shifted to the State and 

 Private Forestry branch of 

 the Forest Service. 



Following the end of World 

 War II, the Forest Farmers 

 Association Cooperative, 

 then located at Valdosta, 

 GA, spearheaded a drive 

 for more adequate pro- 

 grams of forestry research 

 to meet the growing de- 

 mands for information on 

 use and management of 

 southern forests. The result- 

 ing expansion of research 

 by the Forest Service in the 

 South was conducted to a 

 large extent through about 

 20 research centers, with 

 investigations generally 

 oriented to local or subre- 

 gional forest types and 

 problems. With the aid of 

 local advisory committees 

 and cooperators from forest 

 industry, forestry schools, 

 and other groups, these 

 centers became major 

 forces in the technical 

 advance of forestry in the 

 South. 



In the 1950's emphasis 

 shifted from such geograph- 

 ic orientation to a more 

 functional approach, with 

 research in depth on prob- 

 lems that could have broad 

 regional relevance. Also 



beginning in this period, 

 scientists were provided 

 with modern laboratory 

 facilities and support staffs 

 at a number of experimental 

 forests and other locations, 

 such as the Southern 

 Institute of Forest Genetics 

 at Gulfport, MS, and the 

 forest fire laboratory at 

 Macon, GA. With increasing 

 frequency, Forest Service 

 researchers were located at 

 universities to foster closer 

 cooperation with university 

 scientists. 



As part of a reorganization 

 of the U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture in the 1950's, 

 research on forest insects 

 was transferred from the 

 Bureau of Entomology and 

 Plant Quarantine to the 

 Forest Service, and research 

 on forest diseases was 

 moved from the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, Soils and 

 Engineering to the Forest 

 Service. Researchers from 

 these agencies had long 

 cooperated with experiment 

 station scientists and readily 

 became part of the Forest 

 Service organization. 



Since the mid-1 960's the 

 experiment stations of the 

 Forest Service have been 

 administered under a sys- 



