organizations plus industry, trade 

 associations, and conservation groups 

 to sponsor a Southern Forest Fire 

 Prevention Conference in New 

 Orleans. Again the aim was to 

 stimulate greater action for forest-fire 

 prevention and protection. The 

 conference was highly successful and 

 resulted in increased appropriations 

 and better law enforcement in many 

 Southern States. 



In 1928, another monumental forestry 

 bill, the McSweeney-McNary Forest 

 Research Act, was passed with strong 

 support from the American Forestry 

 Association and a number of other 

 national organizations. This bill 

 provided for a comprehensive 10-year 

 research program by the U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture, including 

 range management and timber survey 

 as well as forestry. The Act set in 

 motion the 1930 Forest Service 

 timber survey, which pointed out the 

 great reproductive potential of the 

 southern forests and was responsible 

 in no small measure for the pulp and 

 paper industry's migration to the 

 area. Within 15 years after the start 

 of the survey, 30 plants with an 

 investment of $200 million were in 

 operation in the Deep South 

 (Eldredge 1947). 



In the midst of the Great Depression, 

 the American Pulpwood Association 

 was formed in 1934 by 

 representatives of the pulp and paper 

 industry. Headquarters, orginally in 

 New York City, were moved to 

 Washington, DC, in the mid- 1 970' s. 

 Much of the association's early work 

 centered on investigations and reports 



of national legislation affecting the 

 industry, including wage and hour 

 provisions and stream pollution. In 

 later years it has concentrated more 

 on development of pulpwood 

 production projections, evaluation of 

 different types of harvesting 

 equipment, safety, training of 

 harvesting equipment operators, and 

 better logging procedures. In this 

 regard the American Pulpwood 

 Association has put out several 

 valuable equipment and training 

 publications in recent years. The 

 association currently maintains 

 southern offices at Jackson, MS, and 

 North Charleston, SC; and much of 

 its work exerts a strong impact on 

 forest productivity in the South, 

 which currently produces almost two- 

 thirds of industry's wood 

 requirements. 



One of the oldest segments of the 

 forest industry organized a southern 

 association in 1935, when the 

 American Turpentine Farmers 

 Association Cooperative was 

 established in Valdosta, GA. Judge 

 Harley Langdale, Sr., a prominent 

 landowner and large gum turpentine 

 operator, was one of the leaders in 

 founding the group and served for 

 many years as its president. The 

 American Turpentine Farmers 

 Association has long administered the 

 Commodity Credit Corporation's 

 turpentine farmers' loan program, 

 cooperated closely with the Federal 

 Government in the Naval Stores 

 Conservation Program, and worked to 

 secure technical assistance for 

 operators from various forestry 

 agencies. It strongly supports forest 



