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This publication summarizes the data on forest area, timber volume, and timber growth collected by the Southern Forest Survey in the Ozark region of Arkansas, the 24 counties in the mountainous northwest portion of the Stats (figure 1). The survey, made between April 1947 and April 1948, was the first of its kind in this section of the State. The remainder of Arkansas, covered by the Southern Forest survey in 1935 and 1936, will be resurveyed in 1949.

The southern pulp and paper industry is again on the march. Practically as soon as the war was over several plants started expansion programs, and construction was started on a number of mills. Investigations and surveys now under way also indicate that additional new pulp and paper mills can be expected to locate in the South in the near Future. This is not news to you members of the industry, but it does point up the need for a review of the South's timber supply in order to see if annual yields of wood are large enough to meet present requirements and at the same time allow for some new...

In the conventional cutterhead arrangement the presure on the lumber passing through the planer is exerted downard-forcing the stock against the lower bed line first.

This statistical release presents data by county on volume and kind of pulpwood produced during 1947 in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. It is third in a series of annual reports on pulpwood production published by the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. The first report covered 1945 production in the Carolinas and Virginia, and the 1946 report covered all five states.

The South, as discussed here, includes the coastal states extending from the Potomac south to Florida and west to the plains of Texas, plus the inland states of Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Within its boundaries lie almost the entire commercial range of the southern yellow pines and a large part of the Nation's supply of hardwoods. It contains 183 million acres, or 40 percent, of the commercial forest land in the United States and 1.9 billion cords, or 28 percent, of the timber. Practically all is easily accessible by water, rail, or good roads. Even more important from the long-range...

This statistical release presents data on 1946 pulpwood production by county in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. It is the second report of this kind published by the Forest Survey at the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, the first one covering 1945 production in the Carolinas and Virginia.

Although the growth and yield figures cited in this paper are sketchy and far from complete, they indicate that management in bottomland hardwoods has a promising future. The data presented are based or stands grown without management. If management in bottomland hardwoods results 'in greatly increasing yields and incomes, and in reducing costs, as it has in pine, the future of our bottomland hardwoods and of the bottomland hardwood industry in the South is secure. Detailed facts and much of the "know how" of management remain to be determined .

The great expansion of the wood pulp and paper industry in the South is one of the major developments in the United States forest scene in recent years. Since 1936, when the current expansion started, wood-pulping capacity in the 12 southern States from Virginia to Texas has nearly quadrupled--the result of new mill construction and expansion of existing mills. About half of United States wood-pulping capacity is no in the South. The annual value of the finished products of the industry in the South is three-quarters of a billion dollars.

One of the first of the modern regional stations, the Appalachian (now Southeastern) Forest Experiment Station celebrated its Silver Anniversary on July 1, 1946. What are the accomplishments of the Station and its cooperators? How much has forest science advanced as a result of its existence? This report is an attempt at an ojective summary, an account of stewardship over a quarter-century of service.Only the highlgihts of progress and accomplishment will be presented in this portion. A more detailed description for each major field forms the latter half of this report.

Eastern cottonwood is by far the most important of ten closely related native species of cottonwood-most of which have numerous varieties and apparently hybridize frequently. It is one of our fastest-growing native trees and the wood is widely used in many different product8. Because of exceptionally fast growth and relatively high value. eastern cottonwood is a very promising tree to grow in plantations under intensive management.