Sizes Of Timber Stands In The Piedmont Of South Carolina

Herbert A. Knight

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Sizes Of Timber Stands In The Piedmont Of South Carolina

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Authors:

Herbert A. Knight

Year:

1978

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

Res. Note SE-276. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. 8 p.

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Abstract

Diseconomies of scale in the management of small tracts of woodland create interest in the average sizes of timber stands. The 1977 inventory of the Piedmont of South Carolina revealed that about 30 percent of the timberland there is broken up into stands smaller than 10 acres.

Keywords

Commercial forest land, forest type, stand age, ownership class, size of condition

Citation

Knight, Herbert A. 1978. Sizes Of Timber Stands In The Piedmont Of South Carolina. Res. Note SE-276. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. 8 p.