I40U0 ACRES-IOOOTREES PER ACRE 



1920= HAND PLANTED = 1925 



EIRE PROTECTED PINE FORESTS 





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21. — In eastern Louisiana the Gaylord Container Corpora- 

 tion of Bogalusa (successors to the Great Southern Lum- 

 ber Co.) have more than 30,000 acres of land planted to 

 pine: A, Portion of a 4,300-acre slash pine plantation 

 established in the winter of 1924-25 and photographed in 

 October 1925 when the trees were 10 months old; B, Octo- 

 ber 1932, plantation 7 years old; C, December 1935, plan- 

 tation 11 years old, prior to thinning operations; D, Feb- 

 ruary 1936, after thinning to remove undesirable, crooked, 

 suppressed, and other surplus trees. Pulpwood was cut to 

 a 3-inch minimum top diameter, or about 4 to 5 cords per 

 acre. Fuel wood was cut down to a 1-inch top diameter. 



Forest allows natural reproduction to become established. 

 Photograph A was taken in 1933; B, in 1939, identical 

 location. Only those areas which fail to reforest naturally 

 are hand-planted. 



23. — On Dan Howell's property, near Lake City, Fla., fire 

 lines are plowed and maintained with tractor plows. 

 Approximately 16,000 miles of plowed fire lines existed 

 on the 3,135,000 acres of private forest land under pro- 

 tection in Florida in 1937. The equipment shoivn in the 

 picture will build 16 to 17 miles of 8-foot firebreak with 

 a 6-foot ditch in an 8-hour day. 



22. — The 208,000-acre Suwanee Forest of the Superior Pine 

 Products Corporation at Fargo, Ga., has been under sus- 

 tained-yield management for years. Four forest rangers 

 and a fire crew of from 8 to 10 men are kept constantly 

 available for fire fighting. A radio system, with trucks 

 and towers equipped with short-nave sets, enables the 

 fire dispatcher to get in immediate touch uith suppres- 

 sion crews. Some 5,000 miles of fire lines have been 

 plotted and, with 100 miles of road, break up the area 

 for fire-control purposes. Fire control on the Suwanee 



24. — Mature slash and longleaf pine timber in the naval 

 stores region of the South is often turpentined 3 to 6 

 years prior to cutting. The ivorked-out trees are then cut 

 for pulpwood, poles, piling, or saulogs. f-ib6S22 



25. — Three miles west of Runnelstotvn, Perry County, 

 Miss., this old field loblolly pine ouned by a farmer ivas 

 cut selectively by a contractor for the Masonite Corpora- 

 tion. Cutting conservatively has left the stand so that 

 another cut can be made in 10 years. F.353336 



