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ustris), which occurs typically in pure 

 forests over an area probably not exceed- 

 ing 5,000 square miles. This body of 

 Longleaf Pine is the westward continua- 

 tion of the large Longleaf Pine area of 



of the cut of the past few years has been 

 taken from the longleaf forest, and since 

 this is the most valuable forest area while 

 at the same time the smallest, it presents 

 the most urgent as well as the moit criti- 



FlG. 3. LONGLEAF PINE LAND AFTER LOGGING OPERATIONS, SHOWING WASTE AND 

 DEBRIS, AND AMOUNT AND CONDITION OF TIMBER REMAINING 

 UNCUT. JASPER CO., TEXAS. 



Western Louisiana and is thrust in be- 

 tween the shortleaf and loblolly areas. 

 In the longleaf area also, the bayous and 

 streamways are accompanied by the lob- 

 lolly and swamp hardwoods. 



Lumbering operations, directed chiefly 

 to marketing more than locally the pine 

 timber have been carried on in all these 

 forests for more than forty years, but the 

 lumber business in Texas and Western 

 Louisiana has only within the past ten 

 years assumed dimensions at all compara- 

 ble to those of the recognized lumbering 

 states. In 1SS0 the total cut in Texas 

 forests was estimated at 328,000,000 of 

 feet. In 1900 it reached the high mark of 

 one billion feet. By far the greater part 



cal problem for forest management. Con- 

 fining attention, therefore, to the Longleaf 

 Pine forest we may inquire into the condi- 

 tion of affairs more minutely. (Fig- ') 

 In the first place, it is (aside from its 

 inherently greater value as timber land | a 

 more critical and difficult question than 

 either that of the shortleaf or the loblolly 

 forests just because the Longleaf Pine 

 curs in pure forest formation : for while 

 in the former cases a forest stand of some 

 kind is left on the ground, in the latter case 

 a tract of forest may be of such uniformly 

 large sized trees that logging operations 

 leave almost nothing upon the ground. 

 From the forester's point of view, of course, 

 such a cut as that would never be ne< 



