Appropriations 1961 1962

General Funds $282,215 $295,012
Special Funds 2,000 2,000

Total $284,215 $297,012
Staff, 1961: 6O. Staff, 1962: 54.

BOYS' FORESTRY CAMPS
Advisory Board

Chairman: Stuart F. Hamill, Jr.

Earle Bracey; Louis A. Fatkin; J, William Hunt, Mrs. Ralph
C. Isiminger; Raymond Miller; Frank Powers; Robert W.
Stemple; W. A. C. Irwin, District Forester, Department of
Forests and Parks.
David L. Curran, Superintendent

301 W. Preston Street, Baltimore I Telephone: 837-9000

The State Department of Public Welfare operates three forestry
camps for boys in cooperation with the State Department of Forests
and Parks. These camps were created by Chapter 370, Acts of 1955.
The three camps were combined into a single administrative unit with
one budget and one central business management unit. These camps
serve older boys received on transfer from the Maryland Training
School for Boys, Boys' Village of Maryland and the Maryland Chil-
dren's Center (Code 1957, Art. 88A, sees. 39 and 39A). Boys selected
for transfer must be at least 15% years of age, must be in good physi-
cal health, and must be interested in an active outdoor work and living
experience. The camps were created in the conviction that older boys
could be guided back to good citizenship under care in these camps;
and that at the same time, the boys would be assisting in the conser-
vation of the State's natural resources and contributing to the cost of
their maintenance. During the fiscal year 1960, the camps served a
total of 321 boys.

Boys' Forestry Camp—Green Ridge
Robert G. Wolford, Supervisor
Flintstone (Allegany County) Telephone: Greenleaf 8-4372

Green Ridge Forestry Camp for Boys was established in May 1965
as a specialized institution to be operated by the State Department of
Public Welfare in cooperation with the State Department of Forests
and Parks. It has facilities for 30 boys. The average daily population
during fiscal 1960 was 26 boys.

Boys' Forestry Camp—Lonaconing
Ralph D. Swauger, Supervisor

R.F.D. #1, Box 56-A, Lonaconing (Allegany County)
Telephone; Homestead 3-2244

The apparent success of the first Boys' Forestry Camp at Green
Ridge prompted the 1956 General Assembly to appropriate capital
funds for two additional camps and operating funds for Camp II
(Chapter 98, Acts of 1956). The first of these two camps is located in