FOREST POLICY. 



tains having gentle slopes. Even firewood can be disposed of to 

 a certain extent. Fires and insects, however, handicap the forest- 

 er's work. 



The Wind Cove national park, in the southern Black Hills, 

 created in 1902, is said to be a Yellowstone without geysers. 



9. Irrigation: During the census year, 44,000 acres of farm- 

 land, irrigated from works (notably deep artesian wells) costing 

 $285,000, produced crops valued at $208,000. 



FORESTRY CONDITIONS OF TENNESSEE: 



1. Area: 27,300 square miles, or 65% of the State, are 

 under forest. 



2. Physiography: Vast bottom lands along the Missis- 

 sippi, subject to inundation. Cumberland River in the north and 

 Tennessee River in the south. Cumberland and Alleghany 

 Mountains in the east, the latter with summits over 6,000 feet 

 high. Low mountain ranges in central part. 



3. Distribution: The Mississippi bottom lands show gi- 

 gantic hardwood forests without undergrowth and a sprinkling 

 of swamps stocked with cypress, red and black gums. Cypress 

 is said to be of poor quality. Amongst the hardwoods are found 

 cottonwoods, gums, red and cow oaks, hickories, elms, beeches 

 and white oaks of huge proportions. 



In the middle division of Tennessee (Blue Grass region) 

 agriculture has entirely superceded the forest. Here have grown, 

 originally, the finest red cedar, black walnut and yellow poplar. 

 Now farm wood-lots even are strangely absent. In the original 

 forest there were further found white, red, green and blue ash; 

 white, chestnut, burr, cow, yellow, chinquapin and Texan oak; 

 red, black, sugar and ash-leaved maple; white linden, hackberry, 

 honey locust; winged and American elm. On dry hills, fire has 

 played havoc with the forest. Here white and post oak are rap- 

 idly removed for cooperage, whilst black, Spanish and scarlet 

 oak, chestnut and black hickories are badly handicapped by fires. 

 Chestr.ut is usually dying or dead. 



The "Black Jack Lands" (marilandica) are large stretches 

 of strongfy calcareous soil, stocked with a stunted growth of 

 black jack, extremely monotonous and much less productive than 



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