percent of the area occupied by sawtimber and under-saw- 

 timber size, and 33 % percent of the area occupied by re- 

 production. Non-stocked areas would be at a minimum. An 

 examination of Table 16 will give the reader an idea of the 

 approximate conditions as they exist in the sample coun- 

 ties. 



Individual sample counties, within the same region and 

 between regions, show a wide variation in degree of stock- 

 ing. In the North Coastal Plain, Bertie County has 71 per 

 cent stocking in the sawtimber and under-sawtimber size. 

 This is probably due to the presence of a large amount of 

 over-mature hardwood timber in the river swamp type and 

 to the fact that timber cutting in the 10 inch-14 inch di- 

 ameters (D.B.H.) classes has not been as heavy as in other 

 sample counties in this region. 



Pender County, in the Southern Coastal Plain, may be 

 used to illustrate the opposite condition. This county shows 

 30 per cent stocking in the sawtimber and under-sawtimber 

 size. Heavy cutting for logs and pulpwood, and lack of pine 

 reseeding, is responsible for this condition. 



Development of regional and state totals, from data ob- 

 tained in the sample counties, is shown in Table 17. 



An examination of Table 17 will show that the worst 

 stocking conditions are found in the South Coastal Plain. 

 The understocked condition in this region is due substan- 

 tially to lack of pine seed trees and the prevalence of un- 

 restricted fire. It should be borne in mind that if there is 

 no pine on a large proportion of the forest land in the 

 Coastal Plain, there will be nothing there but scrubby 

 hardwoods. 



Table 16. 



ESTIMATED DEGREE OF SATISFACTORY STOCKING AS DETERMINED 



FOR THE 21 SAMPLE COUNTIES IN PER CENT 



County 



Commercial 

 Forest 

 Acres 



Degree of Satisfactory Stocking 



Sawtimber and 

 Under-Sawlog 



Reproduction 



Total 



Degree of 

 Non-Stocking 



NORTHERN COASTAL PLAIN 



Beaufort 363,779 



Bertie 306,916 



Currituck 80,022 



Halifax 239,357 



Tyrrell 213,481 



Bladen 424,795 



Harnett 238,134 



Jones 231,931 



Pender 465,111 



Richmond 191,411 



Wayne 175,824 



Caswell 152,842 



Gaston 85,233 



Randolph 303,483 



Wake 306,320 



Yadkin 94,122 



Ashe 90,138 



Buncombe 271,632 



Caldwell 220,551 



Graham 169,100 



Jackson 252,724 



44.2 



31.8 



76.0 



24.0 



71.4 



20.1 



91.5 



8.5 



50.0 



21.2 



71.2 



28.8 



48.2 



34.3 



82.5 



17.5 



43.8 



39.4 



83.2 



16.8 



SOUTHERN COASTAL 



PLAIN 







38.7 



28.2 



66.9 



33.1 



39.7 



26.4 



66.1 



32.9 



38.9 



35.5 



74.4 



25.6 



30.6 



34.2 



64.8 



35.2 



40.6 



22.8 



63.4 



36.6 



46.8 



33.8 



80.6 



19.4 



PIEDMONT 









45.7 



36.9 



82.1 



17.9 



52.0 



31.3 



83.3 



16.7 



55.0 



26.0 



81.0 



19.0 



68.3 



21.9 



90.2 



9.8 



60.8 



27.2 



88.0 



12.0 



MOUNTAINS 









39.8 



29.2 



69.0 



31.0 



66.0 



16.0 



82.0 



18.0 



61.5 



23.6 



85.1 



14.9 



61.0 



25.0 



86.0 



14.0 



35.0 



36.0 



71.0 



29.0 



Table 17 

 ESTIMATED DEGREE OF SATISFACTORY STOCKING ON REGIONAL BASIS 



Region 



Total 



Degree of Satisfactory Stocking 

 in Per Cent 





Commercial 



Forest Acreage 



of Region 



Sawtimber and 



Under-sawlog 



Size 





Reproduction 



Degree of 



Non-stocking 



Per Cent 



4,140,752 



52.2 





30.0 



17.8 



5,607,685 



37.7 





30.5 



31.8 



5,039,742 



58.2 





26.9 



14.9 



3,748,679 



54.0 





25.4 



20.6 



18,536,358 



49.9 





28.3 



21.8 



North Coastal Plain 

 South Coastal Plain 



Piedmont 



Mountain 



State 



(25) 



