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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.

There is very little published information on average rates of diameter growth of southern bottomland hardwoods. Probably the best information of this kind is given by Winters, Putnam, and Eldredge,2 who summarize forest survey data on average rates of diameter growth for 4 size classes and 20 species or species groups (including pine and cyress), and for all species together by 5 forest conditions. Diameter growth in 10 years was found to vary from 0.90 inch for cypress 30 or more inches in diameter breast high to 4.34 inches for cottonwood 6 to 12 inches in diameter. The average for all...

Dependable information on the supply of all raw materials is vital to the conduct of the war and to the success of current and future efforts at post-war planning. This economic survey of our forests which are an integral part of the Nation's reservoir of raw material is essential to a complete understanding of resource potentialities and of the industries depending on them. The data presented result from the first Nation-wide field inventory ever to be made of our forest land and the volume, quality, growth, and species of the timber resource. Although undertaken initially as an essential...

The present study has been undertaken (a) to test out the validity of the concept that the soil profile has a definite measurable storage capacity for water and a definite regulating effect on ground-water discharge, and (b) to demonstrate that these functions of the soil profile are analogous to those of detention-type storage basin structures used in flood control and to retention and equalizing reservoir structures employed for water resources conservation