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Title: Annual report, 1954
Identifier: annualreport195450sout (find matches)
Year: 1955 (1950s)
Authors: Southeastern Forest Experiment Station (Asheville, N. C. )
Subjects: Forests and forestry Southern States Periodicals; Forests and forestry Research Southern States Periodicals
Publisher: Asheville, N. C. : Southeastern Forest Experiment Station
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Figure 28.--Pine growing stock volume decreased 2.1 million cords, or 2 percent, between surveys. Since the first survey, enough abandon- ed farmland reverted to forest to add more than 2.5 million acres to the forest area. Also, improved fire protection contributed to better stocking. In 19 36 an estimated 5.4 million acres burned over in Georgia; by 1952 the burned-over area had been reduced to about 600,000 acres. The planting of pine on more than 300,000 acres has also helped. Other important trends were re- vealed by the resurvey. Thirty-four per- cent of the forested area is now in hard- wood types, compared to 22 percent during the first survey (fig. 30). Type conversion is aided by cutting practices which leave hardwoods as the residual stand. Also, the growing space occupied by cull trees is increasing at a rapid rate, and in the period between surveys the volume in cull trees, principally hard- woods, more than doubled.
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Figure 29.--Percent change in number of pine trees between surveys. - 38 -

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