10 Miscellaneous Circular 75, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 



have almost no woods activities, the Cherokee and Nantahala are still 

 lacking in transportation facilities, while the Natural Bridge and 

 Unaka Forests, 20 years after exploitation, have hundreds of small 

 sales every year. The virgin stands on the Arkansas and Florida 

 National Forests, depleted as they are from the fires of the last cen- 

 tury, have achieved value through the exhaustion of the privately 

 owned timber of their respective regions, and consequently are now 

 in great demand, and are undergoing harvesting; but, be it noted, 

 not the hurried, unheedful exploitation that the x\.ppalachians suf- 



Pig. 7. — Shenandoah National Forest, Va. A young stand of white, black, and red 

 oak in excellent condition for rapid growth. Slack cooperage and fuel-wood sales 

 have removed defective oaks and chestnut, black gum, maple, pine, and other weed 

 trees 



fered. These forests are being harvested according to the precepts 

 and principles of forestry and yet with profit to the purchasers who 

 carry on the harvest. 



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Prior to 1914 there were no sales of stumpage in this district 

 except from the public-domain forests of Arkansas and Florida. 

 During the calendar year 1924, there were some 1,400 sales, consist- 

 ing almost entirely of salvage materials — stumpage that was re- 

 garded as practically worthless at the beginning of that decade. 



