actions, etc., that have 

 given us this great 

 progress— it's more than just 

 one action— but what were 

 they, which were the most 

 effective. Was it fire 

 control, education, markets, 

 monetary support? How 

 much federal contribution 

 helped to increase the 

 resource? Was it laws or 

 form of taxes or just 

 population pressures. 



Now what interests me so 

 much in this question is that 

 a logical answer would 

 indicate the road we should 

 take in the years ahead to 

 continue this progress .... 



In a chance meeting with George W. 

 Stanley, a vice president of Kirby 

 Lumber Company, and A.D. 

 Folweiler, then Texas State Forester. 

 Myers mentioned the idea to them. 

 Both felt it merited further 

 consideration. Stanley, who was 

 chairman of the Southern Pine 

 Association's forestry committee, 

 discussed the idea with that group, 

 who offered to put up $15,000 

 toward the project if the Forest 

 Farmers Association would do 

 likewise. The association's board 

 approved and provided its matching 

 share with help from the pulp and 

 paper industry and several forestry- 

 related companies. From there the 

 project was off and running with 

 strong staff support from Southern 

 Pine Association's executive vice 

 president Stanley P. Deas, his 

 successor, William R. Ganser, and 

 the Forest Farmers Association. 



A working committee met in Atlanta 

 in 1967. The name "Southern Forest 

 Resource Analysis" was adopted, and 

 Philip R. Wheeler, a prominent 

 consultant, was employed as project 

 leader. The working committee and a 

 subsequently selected advisory 

 committee read like Who's Who in 

 southern forestry. Five other 

 nationally known consultants were 

 selected to work with project leader 

 Wheeler. They were James G. Yoho, 

 Zebulon W. White, Leon A. 

 Hargreaves, Jr., Joseph F. Kay lor, 

 and William R. Sizemore. The 

 Southern Hardwood Lumber 

 Manufacturers Association and the 

 American Plywood Association joined 

 in supporting the project. 



In April 1969—2 years after its 

 inception— the analysis was completed 

 and The South 's Third Forest report 

 was published. Its findings and 

 recommendations were widely 

 discussed and quoted in the press and 

 at professional forestry meetings and 

 congressional hearings. The report 

 was frequently referred to during 

 1969 House Ways and Means 

 Committee hearings on timber capital 

 gains. Shortly thereafter, the entire 

 report was read into the record of the 

 congressional hearings on the 

 National Timber Supply Act of 1969. 



The next month, in May 1969, a 

 Southern Forest Resource Council 

 was created by the four sponsoring 

 organizations to work for 

 implementation of the report's 

 recommendations. Since then, this 

 report has provided a blueprint for 

 increasing productivity of the 



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