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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



December 



land is less than 100 feet above sea 

 and is for the most part under 50 feet. 

 This region is fairly heavily wooded 

 and the lumber industry is here of 

 considerable importance, but almost 

 exclusively in the manufacture of lum- 

 ber for local consumption. It is esti- 

 mated that 40 per cent of the region 

 is wooded, or over one million acres 



The forests of this region occur in 

 much larger bodies than in the Pied- 

 mont Plateau, but there are no such 

 immense continuous tracts as found 

 in the Appalachian Region. The lum- 

 bering here is characterized by an 

 abundance of small saw mills many 

 portable in contradistinction from 

 the lumbering in the Appalachian Re- 





Barrens Timber; a Thin Stand, Due to Fire. 



practically, all of which is second 

 growth under 150 years in age. Be- 

 fore the civil war a much larger per 

 cent was cleared and worked as farm 

 land than at present, but since that 

 time much of it has been abandoned 

 and has grown up, for the most part 

 to a thick growth of scrub or loblolly 

 pine. 



gion, which is carried on mostly by a 

 few large operators. The lumbering 

 is mostly of second-growth yellow 

 pine 40 to 100 years old which has not 

 had time to attain the large dimen- 

 sions of virgin timber. 



The forests of this region are over 

 half yellow pine, which occurs some- 

 times in mixture with hardwoods, but 



