and shortleaf pine stands 

 in the Piedmont. 



The 1 920's saw a steady 

 expansion of these small 

 station staffs. By 1 927, the 

 Southern Station roster had 

 grown to 23 employees. 

 Passage of the 

 McSweeney-McNary For- 

 est Research Act of 1928 

 gave further impetus to 

 research in southern forestry 

 through expanded funding 

 and staffing. New programs 

 in the New Deal period of 

 the 1 930's brought addition- 

 al finances to support a 

 growing research staff and 

 a broadened variety of 

 studies. In this period, the 

 Civilian Conservation Corps 

 also made valuable contri- 

 butions by building access 

 roads to experimental 

 forests, constructing head- 

 quarters buildings, and 

 furnishing labor for installing 

 experimental plots. 



The new recruits who joined 

 southern forest research 

 organizations in this period 

 came from several forestry 

 schools, "bringing new 

 interests, specialties, tech- 

 niques, and enthusiasms 

 that helped create a stimu- 

 lating intellectual climate" 

 (Wakeley 1964 unpubl.). 



Continuing growth brought 

 the budget of the two 

 southern forest experiment 

 stations to nearly $350,000 

 by the outbreak of World 

 War II. 



During the war years of the 

 1 940's, available research 

 personnel were largely 

 occupied with emergency 

 projects designed to provide 

 information and other assis- 

 tance to wartime agencies. 

 Monthly surveys of lumber 

 production and special 

 studies of equipment and 

 material needs of the forest- 

 products industries fur- 

 nished essential data for 

 defense programs. Utiliza- 

 tion specialists supplied 

 technical information to 

 loggers, millmen, and others 

 in the forest industries. 

 These specialists subse- 

 quently staffed the postwar 

 "Forest Utilization Service" 

 at both southern forest 

 experiment stations as part 

 of a nationwide effort to 

 relate utilization research 

 like that conducted at the 

 Forest Products Laboratory 

 at Madison, Wl, more closely 

 to the needs of forest 

 industries. In the late 1960's, 

 these programs of "technol- 

 ogy transfer" from research 

 to field applications were 



