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CABARRUS COUNTY BOARD OF C~ISSIONERS ANNUAL REPORT NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION OF FOREST RESOURCES 1981-1982 FOREST MANAGD'~NT Received 86 management requests, serviced 80 this year. Total acres involved - 2,040. Total acres marked for harvesting and thinning - 589. Total acres of pulpwood cut from pine plantations - 150. Total cords cut - 1,244. Total income to !ando~ners and cutters from these sales - $48,516. Total acres harvested for sawtimbgr - 251. Total board feet cut - 1,474,000. Cords harvested along with sawtimber - 380. Total income to landowners fr~, sale of sa~vtimber, pnlpwood, and fire wood - $100,400. Nine lando~ers have applied for cost-sharing assistance for site preparation and tree planting, which covers approximately 220 acres~ FIRE WOOD We had 83 requests from citizens for fire wood this year. Approximately 300 cords were cut. ~is was sold at $6 or $7 pep truck load, which brought about $2,100 fr~n the sale to lando~ners. FOREST INSECTS AND DISEASES 'Ihere were 15 old beetle spots cut this year which cut approximately 247 cords of pulp~ood. This brought about $9,633 to lando~.mers and cutters fr~l~ the sale. During the year, many r~quests for assistance on shade trees ~ere serviced. The problems were identified and methods of control were rec~mnended. INFORMATION AND EDUCATION Articles were placed i~ the Tribnne and D~ily Independent concerning fire control, forest ,mnagement, fire wood, Smokey Dear progrm~s~ ~brest tree seedlings, ban on burning, lifting of the ban on buPning, Rural Development Panel meetings, and Future Fathers of America forestry contest. cOOpERATION ! attended Deur Connty Firemen's Association meetings, ten Chief's meetings, and nine volnnteer fire department meetings. I attended meetings with the ASCS, Rural Development Panel, ~CD, SCS, and Natural Disaster Assessment meeting.