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NORT.~ UAROLI~'^ D~JiSION O? FOR~ST RESOUEC~S R~DORT TO 0ABle. US 00UNTY BOARD OF GO.~4ISSION~S FISOAL YEAR 1980--81 FOREST b~NAG~4k~qT Received 75 requests, sorvicsd ?1, with 1,935 acres involved. Total acres marked and designated for thinning or harvesting is 270. To~al acres thinned is 26?, which cut 2,650 cords of pulpwood. This brought approximately $103,3~0 back into ~he couflty to landowners and cutters. Total acres harvested - ~68. This consists of c!eareutting, harvesting saw~imber, pulpwood, and fire wood. There were &,040,000 boa~d feet , 722 cords cut, and about 600 cords o£ fire wood cut. Total for the year is mbo'at $207,901. Two hundred one acres were prepared for planting, which consists of bulldozing, scalping, and fuelwood removal. Two hundred twenty acres were plaeted in Lob- lolly pines. Nineteen acres of this was open land which needed no site pre-. paration. FIRE WOOD We assisted abc'u% ~O citizens %o find places to out fire wood. FOREST INSECTS AND DISEASES We salvaged 31 spots of beetle-infested %rees~ which cut 599 cords and 184,000 board feet of saw%imber. 'These trees were dying or dead and were sold fo~ p,/lpwood and savtimber. Approximately $~4,330 was brought back into the county from %his ~ale. INF0~MATION ANDEDUCAT!0N Twenty-two articles were placed in .newspapers this year. Articles were on Smokey the Bear programs, woods, brush, and grass fires~ the'ban on burning, and the lifting o£. the ban. O~her articles were on cut%lng £ire wood, beetles, tree seedlings, the new Assistant County Ranger, FAA Forestry contest~ and forestry progrOms. We eon%acted ~dio stations seven times for fire prevention purposes. We placed displays on £orsstry and fire control in the Courthouse and County Building this year. We made visits t~ five county schools, grades two through six. We attended meetings with the SOS, SWCD supervisors, Home~Economics Extension Servico~ and the ASCS. I attended two schools at Ltnville Training Facility in November and December, 1980. We worked with Mr. Price and SCS with two schools.