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THE FORESTS OF ALLEGANY COUNTY 



Most of the large White Pine is now gone. Defective old White 

 Pines are frequently seen scattered over slopes now covered with 

 young hardwood forests (Plate XXVII, Fig. 2); only an occasional 

 sound White Pine is to be found. 



Shortleaf Pine is similarly exhausted. Small groups and scat- 

 tered single trees are to be found in patches of hardwoods on farms 

 in the lower hill country, or forming thin belts skirting the lower 

 slopes of the higher, wooded mountains. Only occasional large 



FIG. 15. Portable steam sawmill. 



trees are to be found (Plate XXX, Fig. 1). The majority are now 

 too few or of too small size to furnish any considerable amount of 

 timber. 



The saw timber now available consists chiefly of White Oak, Chest- 

 nut Oak, Red Oak and Chestnut, with only occasional logs of second 

 growth White Pine, Shortleaf Pine, Pitch Pine, Basswood and Shag- 

 bark Hickory. The approximate acre yield of timber now standing 

 amounts to from less than 500 to about 2,000 board feet; exceptional, 

 isolated small bodies would cut from 3,000 to 6,000 feet per acre. 

 These supplies occur, however, at long intervals, and, as already 



