Table 2. — Forest area of south Georgia, classified according to forest type and topographic situation 



Major forest type 



Flatwoods 



Rolling 

 uplands 



River 

 bottoms 



Swamps, 



bays, and 



ponds 



All situations 



Turpentine pine types: 



Acres 



1,400,600 



456. 100 



940. 900 



47.700 



47, 600 



Acres 



1.697,600 

 361, 300 

 657, 700 



Acres 

 5,600 



Acres 



23.900 



20,500 



674. 200 



424, 500 



275, 800 



Acres 



3. 127, 700 

 837,900 



2. 282, 300 

 479, 300 

 448,800 



Percent 

 31 



Longleaf-slash pine - . 



8 3 





9,500 

 7,100 

 7,000 



22 7 





4 8 



Turpentine pine-hardwoods ... 



118,400 



4.5 







Total . 



2, 892, 900 



2. 835, 000 



29,200 



1, 418, 900 



7.176,000 



71 3 







Nonturpentine pine types: 



338, 900 

 84,900 



343. 000 

 122, 300 



47,600 

 67,200 



199. 900 

 207, 900 



929. 400 

 482, 300 



9 2 





4.8 







Total . 



423, 800 



465. 300 



114,800 



407. 800 



1.411,700 



14.0 







Hardwood types: 



13,200 

 3,100 

 35.900 





259, 700 



605,300 



878.200 

 70,500 

 278, 300 



8 7 





67,400 

 235. 300 



.7 





3.100 



4,000 



2.8 







Total .. 



52.200 



302. 700 



262, 800 



609.300 



1,227.000 



12.2 









4,700 





28,800 



222,000 



255,500 



2.5 











I 3, 373. 600 

 Percent 



3. 603. 000 



Percent 

 35.8 



435.600 



Percent 



4.3 



2, 658. 000 



Percent 

 26. 4 



10.070.200 











100. C 



correlation of the data on area, volume, and tur- 

 pentine history, the forest types and species have 

 been assembled into 4 groups: turpentine pines, 

 nonturpentine pines, hardwoods, and cypress 

 (Taxodium spp.). In the type map at the end 

 of this publication, no effort has been made to 

 locate the 11 forest types or the forest type groups; 

 instead, the map shows those generalized areas in 

 which certain major species are characteristic and 

 dominant. There is obviously no correlation be- 

 tween the broad type areas shown on the map and 

 those shown in the detailed type classification 

 discussed in the tables and the text. Also, because 

 of the small scale used, the narrow, hardwood 

 "stringers" along the streams could not be shown 

 accurately, and the map consequently does not 

 give a true picture of the extent of the area domi- 

 nated by hardwoods. 



Turpentine Pine Types 



The turpentine-pine group, made up of forest 

 types in which the gum-producing species (long- 

 leaf and slash) predominate, includes the longleaf 

 pine, longleaf-slash pine, slash pine, slash pine- 



cypress, and turpentine pine-hardwood types. 

 As shown in table 2, these types characterize about 

 71 percent of the forest area and are most prevalent 

 in the flatwoods. In these types, slash pine makes 

 up 48 percent and longleaf 28 percent of the cubic 

 volume (table 3). The remainder is composed of 

 loblollv and other pines, cypress, and hardwoods. 



Nonturpentine Pine Types 



Nonturpentine pine types, composed largely of 

 loblolly (up to 52 percent of the cubic volume), 

 with some shortleaf, pond, or spruce pine, charac- 

 terize only 14 percent of the forest area. They are 

 found mainly on the more fertile, well-drained soils 

 along the streams and have taken over much of the 

 abandoned farm land of the uplands. This upland 

 invasion has to some extent taken over areas 

 formerly occupied by old-growth longleaf pine. 



Comparison of Mohr's type maps, 3 published in 

 1896, with the type map of today shows that during 

 the last 40 years the northern boundary of the 



3 Mohr, Charles, the timber pines of the southern 

 united states. U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Forestry Bui. 13, 

 37 pp., illus. 1896. 



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