Cultivated agricultural land. — Land being used for the pro- 

 duction of farm or orchard crops, or that shows evidence of 

 having been so used during the preceding 2 years. 



Idle agricultural land. — Cultivated land that has been idle 

 for 2 years or more but has not reached the abandoned stage. 



Abandoned agricultural land. — Formerly cultivated land that 

 shows distinct signs of having been abandoned for agricul- 

 tural crop production; no attempt has been made to main- 

 tain it as improved pasture. 



Improved pasture. — Cleared or open land that is under fence, 

 used primarily for grazing and upon which an attempt has 

 been made to maintain a sod. 



Other areas. — Areas included within the corporate limits 

 and suburban or industrial sections of cities and communi- 

 ties; power, rail, and highway rights-of-way; marsh; non- 

 meandered waterways; and prairie. 



Forest Types 



Longleaf pine. — Longleaf pine constitutes at least 75 percent 

 of the board-foot volume in sawlog-size stands and 75 percent 

 or more of the dominant and codominant trees in under- 

 sawlog-size stands. This type is found on the drier soils of 

 both the fiatwoods and rolling uplands. Scrub oak areas 

 that show promise of coming back to longleaf pine are in- 

 cluded in the longleaf type. 



Longleaf-slash pine. — Longleaf and slash pine together con- 

 stitute at least 75 percent of the board-foot volume in saw- 

 log-size stands and 75 percent or more of the dominant and 

 codominant trees in under-sawlog-size stands, neither 

 species alone accounting for 75 percent. This type is found 

 in a few areas in the fiatwoods that are dry enough for long- 

 leaf pine, and that have escaped fire for a sufficient length 

 of time to permit the slash pine to become established. 



Slash pine. — Slash pine constitutes at least 75 percent of 

 the board-foot volume in sawlog-size stands and 75 percent 

 or more of the dominant and codominant trees in under- 

 sawlog-size stands. This type is confined largely to the 

 fiatwoods and adjacent ponds and swamps — that is, to 

 moist situations where sufficient time elapses between fires 

 to permit the establishment of slash pine. Scrub oak areas 

 that show promise of coming back to slash pine are included 

 in the slash pine type. 



Slash pine — cypress. — Slash pine and cypress together con- 

 stitute at least 75 percent of the board-foot volume in 

 sawlog-size stands and 75 percent or more of the dominant 

 and codominant trees in under-sawlog-size stands, neither 

 species alone accounting for 75 percent. This type is found 

 principally in low depressions in the fiatwoods, and in 

 deeper swamps and ponds than the pure slash pine type. 



Turpentine pine — hardwood. — Neither pines nor hardwoods 

 alone constitute 75 percent of the board-foot volume in 

 sawlog-size stands, nor 75 percent of the dominant and 

 codominant trees in under-sawlog-size stands; but at least 

 half of the pine consists of longleaf and slash pines. 



Nonturpentine pine. — Loblolly, shortleaf, pond, sand, or 

 spruce pines, alone or in mixture, constitute at least 75 per- 

 cent of the board-foot volume in sawlog-size stands, and 75 

 percent or more of the dominant and codominant trees in 



under-sawlog-size stands. Scrub-oak areas that show 

 promise of coming back to nonturpentine pines are included 

 in the nonturpentine-pine type. 



Nonturpentine pine — hardwood. — Neither pines nor hardwoods 

 alone constitute 75 percent of the board -foot volume in 

 sawlog-size stands, nor 75 percent of the dominant and 

 codominant trees in under-sawlog-size stands; but more 

 than half of the pine consists of nonturpentine pines. 



Scrub pine. — Sand or other scrub pines constitute at least 

 75 percent of the board-foot volume in sawlog-size stands, 

 and 75 percent or more of the dominant and codominant 

 trees in under-sawlog-size stands. 



Bottom-land and swamp hardwood. — Hardwoods constitute 

 at least 75 percent of the board-foot volume in sawlog-size 

 stands, and 75 percent or more of the dominant and co- 

 dominant trees in under-sawlog-size stands. This type is 

 characteristic of the larger stream bottoms, and swamps, 

 bays, and branch heads. 



Upland hardwood. — Hardwoods of good form and quality 

 constitute at least 75 percent of the board-foot volume in 

 sawlog-size stands, and 75 percent or more of the dominant 

 and codominant trees in under-sawlog-size stands. 



Scrub oak — scrub hardwood. — Scrubby or stunted oaks and 

 hardwoods that have come in after fire or cutting character- 

 ize this type, which usually occupies areas originally stocked 

 with longleaf pine and is ordinarily found in the rolling 

 uplands. 



Cypress. — Cypress constitutes at least 75 percent of the 

 board-foot volume in sawlog-size stands, and 75 percent or 

 more of the dominant and codominant trees in under- 

 sawlog-size stands. 



Topographic Situations 



Fiatwoods. — Low, flat topography with resulting poor 

 drainage; the soils are generally sandy and usually support 

 a stand of mixed pines. 



Rolling uplands. — Rolling or hilly topography, well- 

 drained, with light soils (a small sand-dune area is included 

 with the rolling uplands in this report). 



Swamps, bays, ponds, river bottoms, branch heads. — These topo- 

 graphic situations are grouped because of the similarity in 

 their physical features and in the timber species they support. 

 They are low, wet, poorly drained areas, frequently under 

 water, or alluvial forest land subject to inundation, bordering 

 rivers and their tributaries, supporting mixed stands of 

 cypress, pine, and some hardwoods. 



Forest Conditions 



Old-growth uncut. — Old-growth stands from which less than 

 1 percent of the volume has been cut. 



Old-growth partly cut. — Old-growth stands from which 10 

 percent or more of the volume has been cut, but in which the 

 remaining old-growth sawlog-size timber contains at least 

 1,000 board feet of hardwood or hardwood and pine mixed, 

 or 600 board feet of pine per acre. 



Second-growth sawlog-size uncut. — Second-growth stands from 

 which less than 10 percent of the sawlog-size trees have been 



