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The coniferous forests of northern Maine and New Hampshire are composed principally of red spruce (Picea rubens) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea) in varying proportions.

Valuable second-growth Allegheny hardwood-hemlock forests are found in the High Plateau section of the northern Allegheny Plateau. These forests are valuable as a habitat for wildlife, for regulating streamflow and protecting against erosion, for recreation, and as a source of timber products for industry.

Pure pine stands are the most profitable forest crop on upland sites of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The stands have been common in the past, because loblolly pine and pond pine usually made up most of the first forest growth on abandoned farmland. And apparently nearly all upland sites have been tilled at one time or another.

Fast-growing hybrid poplars are now being tested in plantations scattered from Maine to West Virginia to find out how the different hybrids respond to a wide range of environmental conditions throughout the Northeast.

Small forest properties occupy about 3.4 million acres, or 25 percent of the total forest land, in the spruce-fir region of Maine and New Hampshire. Careful management of these small forest properties is important to the region and to the owners.

In 1948 the U. S. Forest Service's Northeastern Forest Experiment Station set up a research center in West Virginia to study forestry problems in the Appalachian Mountain region. It was named the Mountain State Research Center.

Using the climax forest as a guide to growing the species best suited to the climate and the site, the author offers a silvicultural system for managing the spruce-fir forests of eastern North America. Based on ecological principles, such silviculture is aimed to bring about forests that are inherently healthy and have a natural resistance to insects and disease.

The Forest Survey is conducted in the various regions by the forest experiment stations of the Forest Service. In Indiana the project is directed by the Central States Forest Experiment Station with headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. This Survey Release presents the more significant preliminary statistics on the forest area timber volume, timber growth, and timber drain for the State of Indiana. Later, an analytical report for the State will be published which will interpret statistics on forest area, timber volume, growth, and drain in the light of existing and anticipated economic conditions.

Almost all hardwood trees in the forests of the Missouri Ozarks are prolific sprouters. This ability plays an important role in the development of both managed and unmanaged forests. The ability to sprout is a big help in maintaining a forest cover. It is primarily responsible for the very existence of most of the hardwood forests in the Ozarks today. Persistent attempts for more than half a century to clear land have been unsuccessful on about half the original forested area in the State. These attempts, although unsuccessful in eliminating the forest cover, have drastically reduced the...