SOUTH CAROLINA INAUGURATES SYSTEM OF FOREST PROTECTION

A North Carolina Industry First to Co-operate with South Carolina Commission

          The Champion Fibre Company of Canton, N. C. has just received notification from the recently created South Carolina Forestry Commission that theirs is the first industry to enter into a co-operative forest protection agreement with the State of South Carolina. The agreement provides for the protection of six thousand acres of second growth pine lamia in Clarendon County.

           The Champion Fibre Company has owned these lands for several years and has been conducting reforestation experiments upon them. However, on account of the lack of any forestry organization within the Sate it has heretofore found the matter of protecting these lands from forest fires most difficult.

           It is anticipated that the creation of the South Carolina Forestry the beginning of the development of a definite forestry program for that State.