THE FORESTS OF CALVERT COUNTY 



BY 



H. M. CURRAN 



Area of County. 



The total area of Calvert County is 218 square miles, or 139,520 

 acres. This includes 3-120 acres of marsh. The total land area is there- 

 fore 136,100 acres. Thirty-seven per cent of this, or 51,000 acres, is 

 timbered, and the remaining 85,000 acres is either in cultivation or was 

 formerly and has been recently abandoned. The accompanying map 

 shows the distribution of wood and farm lands. x\bandoned fields with 

 a growth of scrub pine are not included in the timbered areas. 



"Woodlands. 



All available land is or has been under cultivation. The timber is 

 confined to the not roiidily tillable areas along the streams. These 

 wooded sides of the stream depressions furnish the only important type 

 of timber found in the county. The name " slope timber " is given to 

 this type. It resembles very closely the shore timber of Cecil County. 

 The timber of the bottoms is not uniform in composition, and its small 

 area prevents the discussion of it as a distinct type. Small areas were 

 measured to show the composition of tlic stands. Old field growth of 

 loblolly and scrub pines were also measured for stand tables. 



Slope Timber. 

 The 51,000 acres of timbered land in the county are practically all 

 included within the slope timber. The distribution of this type is seen 

 from the map to be along the sides of depressions occupied 



