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the soil, a humus colored clay, derived from limestone, its popu- 

 lation is mostly of the same color. The region covers about 4300 

 square miles and only one quarter of its area is forested. The 

 Chunnennuggee Ridge or the Blue Marl Region rises from the 

 Black Belt to the southward, in a well defined escarpment across 

 the State, and it covers 2300 square miles. The forests occupy 

 one-half of the area, and they consist of the usual dry oak and 

 pine woods on the upland, swamps along the streams and the 

 hammock type of woodland in the ravines and second bottoms. 

 About one quarter of the forests consists of the pines and an- 

 other quarter of the various oaks. The Post Oak Flatwoods oc- 

 cupy only 335 square miles in Alabama. Although these flats 

 are commonly designated as post oak flatwoods, it would seem 

 from the authors list that the Post Oak consists of only 9 per 

 cent, of the forest, and all of the oaks together only 29 per cent. 

 The pines lead in the composition. Loblolly 20 per cent., Shartleaf 

 12 per cent., and the Longleaf 2 per cent. 



The Southern Red Hills, occupy 8,000 square miles, the larg- 

 est region, and extend in a broad belt across the State. The hills 

 are somewhat broader than the valleys, and in some places they 

 extend out into plateaus and ridges, standing 200 feet above 

 their streams and about the same distance above the sea. The 

 soil is mostly red loam, although there are frequent outcrops of 

 stand. Most of the ridges are or have been covered with longleaf 

 pine forests, but this pine forms only 10 per cent, of the forest 

 as a whole, Pinus Taeda being slightly more common, forming 

 12 per cent, of the forest. About 60 per cent, of the region is 

 still wooded. The activity of the lumber industry in this region 

 approximates the average for the whole State. The Lime Hills 

 Region covers 1300 square miles, and in spite of the fertility of 

 the soil is about two-thirds forested with Cedar, Redbud and 

 Mulberry on the limestone outcrops, with the various oaks and 

 scattering Longleaf Pine on the drier uplands, and with the mag- 

 nolias, Beech and Spruce Pine on the slopes. 



The forests of the Lime Sink Region and of the Southwestern 

 Pine Hill contain the largest percentage of pine of any region 

 in Alabama, 51 per cent, in the former and 61 per cent, in the 

 latter, and in each of these regions Longleaf Pine leads with 35 

 per cent, and 50 per cent, respectively. In the Lime Sink Reg- 

 ion, which occupies 1300 square miles, nearly all the forest has 



