﻿FOREST MANAGEMENT OF LOBLOLLY PINE. 41 



SUMMARY OF TREATMENT FOR TYPICAL STANDS. 



The following is a summary of treatment to be recommended for 

 typical existing stands in which loblolly pine occurs, the object being 

 to favor the species and usually to make it or to maintain it as the 

 predominating tree. 



Loblolly on Moist to Wet Soils. Including Flats, Bottoms, and Swamps. 



(1) Mature stands of hardwoods with a slight admixture of loblolly 

 pine. — Ths object here should be to remove the old stand in such a 

 way as to secure as much natural reproduction as possible of loblolly. 

 The scattered seed tree method (as described on p. — ) will be the 

 simplest one to use, clean cutting all the hardwoods and leaving from 

 four to six loblolly seed trees per acre well distributed over the area. 

 Disturbance ^of the forest floor in logging will assist reproduction of 

 pine. The use of fire to improve seed-bed conditions is also bene- 

 ficial, but not entirely necessary. Surface burning should be carried 

 on before the seed-fall of loblolly pine, which means any time before 

 the first of November. Fires after seed-fall should be confined to 

 piles of brush made in logging. Where the pine is not seeding at the 

 time of the cutting, it will probably be better to remove the hard- 

 woods in two cuttings, the first one opening up around the loblolly 

 trees so as to cause them to produce abundant seed two years or so 

 later, and a second cutting during a good pine seed year, or after the 

 pine reproduction has taken place. The first cutting should leave 

 enough hardwoods to keep the ground uniformly shaded, in order to 

 prevent a luxuriance of hardwood undergrowth from springing up. 



(2) Oulled-over to severely cut-over mixed hardwoods and pine, the 

 former predominating. — In these stands most of the mature pine has 

 been removed, but there is often a considerable number of small 

 pine poles and a good amount of pine reproduction, which should be 

 favored by making general improvement and disengagement cuttings. 

 All mature hardwoods should be cut out; all trees of undesirable 

 species, such as red maple, mature and immature, should be cleaned 

 out, especially where suppressing pine; sapling and small pole hard- 

 woods of good form and desirable species should be left wherever 

 not interfering with pine; loblolly pine should be planted or sowed 

 in vacant spots. 



(3) Pure stands of merchantable loblolly pine on old fields or in small 

 groups in original forests. — Cut, using the scattered seed-tree method, 

 or else the method of successive thinnings (see pp. 30 and 31). 



(4) Pure stands of immature loblolly pine. — Should be thinned as 

 recommended on pages 38 to 40. 



(5) Mixed immature stands of pine and hardwoods. — Should be 

 thinned as recommended on page 40. 



