Forest Resources of the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley

Sonja Oswalt

doi:10.2737/SRS-GTR-177

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Forest Resources of the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley

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Authors:

Sonja Oswalt

Year:

2013

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Southern Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2737/SRS-GTR-177

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-GTR-177. Asheville, NC: USDA-Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 29 p.

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Abstract

At one time, the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley was covered by almost 25 million acres of forest. By the mid-1980s, all that remained of the valley’s forested land was roughly 6.6 million acres. This report addresses a gap in data about this land by providing, for the first time since 1986, comprehensive new estimates of forest area, volume, carbon, and tree species stocking change.

Keywords

Bottomland hardwoods, Forest Inventory and Analysis, Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, stocking

Citation

Oswalt, Sonja N. 2013. Forest Resources of the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-GTR-177. Asheville, NC: USDA-Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 29 p.