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THE FORESTER. 



June, 



The entire western margin and the out- 

 lying areas just mentioned, are occupied 

 by the so-called post oak {Quercus minor) 

 timber and commercially are of no gen- 

 eral value. The areas, however, give rise 

 to another problem for future forest ad- 

 ministration ; namely of replacing the oak 

 timber by certain pines or other valuable 

 species a thing which, apparently, would 

 be possible to a valuable degree. This 



constitutes the most valuable element in 

 each case. The first is the Shortleaf Pine 

 (Pinits echinata), which occupies an 

 area of over 25,000 square miles, forested 

 with a mixed growth of pine and hard- 

 woods, lying in the northeast corner of the 

 State and southward along the east side as 

 far as Angelina County. The second is 

 the Loblolly Pine (Piuus Tteda), which 

 occurs with lowland and swamp hard- 





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FIG. 2. FOREST TYPES IN THE TEXAS REGION : I. SHORTLEAF PINE AND HARD- 

 WOODS ; 2. EOBLOEEY PINE AND SWAMP HARDWOODS ; 3. LONGLEAF PINE ; 

 4. POST OAK TIMBER ; 5. TIMBER OF THE CRETACEOUS HILE 

 COUNTRY MIXED CEDAR, OAK AND OTHER SPECIES | 

 6. ROCKY MOUNTAIN FOREST TYPE. 



leaves the East Texas forests proper which woods over an area of some 6,000 square 



in turn present three forest types, each miles bordering the coast prairie as far 



offering its peculiar problems of forest west as Houston and thence northward to 



management. Each of these types is the Shortleaf belt, but interrupted by the 



characterized by a species of pine which third type, the Longleaf Pine (Ptnus pal- 



