The
Longleaf Alliance
came up with some doozies of old fire-suppression propaganda
at the
Longleaf Workshops at Wiregrass Tech today.
WOODS FIRES
EVERYMAN’S ENEMY
Just in case you couldn’t visualize this enemy well enough,
how about as a pale skeleton on a white horse with a B-movie torch?
DEATH RIDES
THE FOREST
Ooh, those shadowy letters!
If all else fails, go for fake religious injunctions, such as
This sums it up:
“Taking fire out of the longleaf forest is like taking rain out of the rain forest.”
But there’s a lot more to learn about the formerly largest-ranging forest in North America.
The
Longleaf Alliance
is doing a series of
Longleaf Workshops around Georgia, in conjunction with the
Georgia Forestry Commission
I went to the one at
Wiregrass Technical College at Valdosta.
Here is EJ Williams giving an overview:
Good crowd: more than 50 people.
More later.
We’re on break now.
-jsq