LECTURES ON FOREST POLICY 



By C. A. SCHENCK, PH.D. 



Director of the Biltmore Forest School, and Forester to the 

 Biltmore Estate, N. C. 



FORESTRY CONDITIONS OF ALABAMA: 



1. Area: 38,300 square miles, or 74% of total area, are 

 wooded. 



2. Physiography: The Cumberland Mountains force the 

 Tennessee River into Alabama, where it forms a huge curve. The 

 Appalachian Mountains send a double chain of mountains, in a 

 northeast to southwest direction, from Chattanooga to Birming- 

 ham. Tombigby River and Alabama River join just before emp- 

 tying into Mobile Bay. Chattahoochee River on Georgia line. 

 Southern section of State undulating, swamps alternating with 

 slightly elevated dunes. Mountains near Birmingham bear coal 

 and iron. 



3. Distribution: The southern third of the State is oc- 

 cupied by long leaf and Cuban pine; the former on dry, th 

 latter on wet land. Four large isolated tracts of long leaf pine 

 (unaccompanied by Cuban pine) in the northern half of State. Taeda 

 occurs all over the State in varying proportion, accompanying 

 here long leaf, there echinata or hardwoods. Echinata is found, 

 generally, outside the region of Cuban pine and does not proceed 

 to the coast. Best stumpage of echinata on upland, with oak 

 undergrowth. Pine stumpage estimated, in 1880, to be 21 billion 

 feet b. m. Enormous cypress swamps along the rivers. Outside 

 the long leaf pine sections, the hardwoods, notably black, Span- 

 ish and post oak, prevail in number, but not in importance. In 

 the curve of the Tennessee River, the southernmost sentinels of 

 the fine hardwood and red cedar forests once typical for Tennes- 



