STATE TOTAL 
(21.0 MILLION ACRES) 
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Ficure 4.—Forest area classified according to condition at time of survey. 
in 1934; others in 1936; south units exclusive of area not surveyed.) 
millions of acres. 
TaBLe 7.—Distribution of productive forest area in the several survey units, 
by forest condition 
[In million acres} 
Second growth 
= Old m™ 
Survey unit x Trdor. | Repro- Total 
growth | Sawlog pace: | duction 
size ahi 8 | and 
Pil | clear-cut 
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Combined south. _________ 1.6 3.4 | Sa 1.4 | 10. 1 
@entralls ee ot te 5 2.9 1.9 38) 5.6 
North-central_ --2-.- --_- mL LEZ tea 1 Dan 
IN Ong ney seen tee eet co Dae 4 1.3 1.0 sit 2.8 
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State total_____- al 2.6 8.8 | teeth 1.9 | 21.0 
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3,700 board feet per acre; the partly cut, 2,900, with a 
minimum of 600 feet. In the remaining second-growth 
stands, other than reproduction, the average saw-timber 
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Figures in parenthesis indicate 
feet in scattered trees, but actual 
wood volume averages nearly 4 
cords. % 
The species pattern of the stands 
of reproduction, covering 5 percent 
of the total forest area, is as a rule | 
the same as that of the parent |. 
stand, except where fire protection 
has enabled the more prolific slash 
and loblolly pines to encroach upon ~ 
the more fire-resistant but less 
prolific longleaf. . 
The small acreage in clear-cut 
condition, less than 4 percent of — 
the total, will eventually reforest — 
naturally if protected from fire, 
since much of it has an occasional —} 
seed tree or is open to seeding from — | 
Most of — 
the clear-cut area is in the slash-_ 
the neighboring forest. 
longleaf pine type of south Georgia — 
(fig. 4), where periodic woods burn-_ 
ing has been most prevalent. a 
Distribution of Tree Sizes” 
Georgia’s forest is primarily awl 
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second-growth stand less than 50 | 
years of age. There are eight |] 
times as many pines in the 2inch |} 
diameter class as in the 10-inch — 
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class and about 20 times as many ~ 
hardwoods (table 9). 
of the trees now 2 inches will die as} 
(South units surveyed 
Since many | 
the stands progress, a high proportion of trees in the smaller 
classes is essential. Throughout the State and in all forest |} 
types, the forest stands are generally understocked. | 
Protection of young growth from fire and other causes of 
loss will aid materially and promptly in increasing the — 
density of the stocking. ; 
Forest Sites 
Based upon the height in feet attained by average domin- ~ 
ant trees at 50 years (i. e., the site index), the sites for pine | 
in Georgia (table 10 and fig. 5) compare favorably with 
those of other States in the pine-hardwood region east of | 
the Mississippi. i) 
In general southwest Georgia was found to have more of 
the better slash and longleaf pine sites (i. e., with the site 
index 70 and more) than southeast Georgia. Southwest 
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