Forest resources of southwest Alabama

Abstract

An area of about 8 million acres in southwest Alabama, extending from the Gulf of Mexico northward into the western edge of the Black Belt Prairie, includes two Forest survey Unites: Alabama #1 (the southern part of the area, with Covington, Escambia, Baldwin, Mobile, and Washington Counties), and Alabama #2 (the northern part, with Sumter, Coctaw, Marengo, Wilcox, Clark, Monroe, and Conecuh Counties). These two unites, together, constitute a source of supply for Mobile, an important wood-using center. The southern part of the area, where turpentine and rosin are produced, is in the "naval stores belt": and the northern part is in the "pine-hardwood region east of the Mississippi River." Approximately 71 percent of the land is forested (table 1) with various southern hardwoods, cypress, and longleaf, slash, loblolly, and other pines.

Citation

Eldredge, I.F. 1938. Forest resources of southwest Alabama. Forest Survey Release No. 35. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 37 p.