strong in the South, which is quite 

 understandable since the region has 

 such a heavy concentration of private 

 timberland owners. 



The Association of Consulting 

 Foresters has strict membership 

 standards, including a professional 

 forestry degree, substantial practical 

 experience, and participation in a 

 continuing education program. 

 Edward Stuart, Jr., of Yorktown, 

 VA, himself a consulting forester, 

 served for many years as executive 

 director until the association's 

 headquarters was moved to 

 Washington, DC, and he was 

 succeeded by Arthur F. Ennis. 



The Association of Consulting 

 Foresters provides its members with 

 an effective voice in national and 

 local affairs, and it has been a strong 

 advocate of State licensing of 

 professional foresters. With over 200 

 consulting foresters practicing in the 

 Southern States in 1985, and with 

 many of them members of this 

 organization, the Association of 

 Consulting Foresters has become a 

 strong positive force for increasing 

 timber production in the region. 



In assessing the impact of forestry 

 associations on productivity of 

 southern forests, an important 

 perspective can be gained by looking 

 at where the region stood as the 

 Nation emerged from World War II. 

 Much of the prewar initiative had 

 languished during the conflict and 

 was only now being resumed. 



In 1948, some 82 percent of the 

 Nation's forest wildfires occurred in 



the 12 Southern States. Of the area's 

 almost 200 million forested acres (81 

 million ha) needing fire protection, 

 only 63 percent received it. In 1948 

 just two Southern States, South 

 Carolina and Virginia, boasted 

 statewide fire protection. Even more 

 significant, however, fire-protection 

 and -control expenditures in 1950 

 averaged only 47 percent of basic 

 minimum requirements, even on the 

 protected acres, Southwide. Progress 

 in protecting the region's forests was 

 being made, but at midcentury there 

 remained a long way to go (Myers 

 1950). 



It is also interesting to note the 

 breakdown of harvests and drains 

 from the southern forest, as reported 

 by the Forest Service for 1947: 



Percent 



Lumber 



45 



Fuel wood 



18 



Hewed crossties 



3 



Pulpwood 



11 



Fence posts 



1 



Other uses by people 



10 



Destructive mortality 





(Fire, insects, disease, 





etc.) 



12 



Most of the forestry and related trade 

 associations formed nationwide and in 

 the South were initially established to 

 address the broad issues of 

 conservation, forest development, and 

 trade promotion, or merely to 

 encourage establishment of a State 

 forestry agency. As the movement 

 matured in the post-World War II 

 era, the aims of these groups became 

 more sophisticated and selective. 



