South. As a demonstration 

 area, the Crossett Forest 

 had no peer. Thousands of 

 visitors from the United 

 States and abroad, includ- 

 ing many owners of small, 

 nonindustrial properties, 

 have been impressed by 

 the annual harvests of 

 timber from so-called "farm 

 forties," as well as by other 

 demonstrations of high 

 levels of timber growth and 

 profitable forestry practices. 



Research on even-aged 

 management was later 

 included in the program at 

 Crossett. C.F. Grano and 

 associates provided com- 

 parisons with the demon- 

 strably effective selection 

 methods of management 

 that had long been under 

 intensive study at Crossett. 

 Research has documented 

 advantages of even-aged 

 systems of timber manage- 

 ment that are now practically 

 universal on the extensive 

 holdings of pulp and paper 

 companies and other large 

 ownerships in the South. 



Studies similar those at 

 Crossett have been under- 

 taken at other research 

 centers and experimental 

 forests in major subregions 

 throughout the South. 



Examples include the re- 

 search center at Alexandria, 

 LA, long under the direction 

 of W.F. Mann, Jr., which 

 concentrated on problems 

 of management in the 

 longleaf and loblolly - 

 shortleaf pine types. Here 

 such practices as direct 

 seeding, thinning, and 

 plantation management 

 received special attention. 



A research center at Nacog- 

 doches, TX, emphasized 

 research on techniques of 

 prescribed burning and 

 management of wildlife 

 habitat. On the Hitchiti 

 Experimental Forest near 

 Macon, GA, studies were 

 mainly directed toward 

 management of loblolly 

 pine in the Georgia Pied- 

 mont (e.g., Brender 1973). 

 Scientists at Cordele, GA, 

 and Olustee, FL, working in 

 cooperation with university 

 researchers, developed 

 guidelines for management 

 of slash pine in the coastal 

 plain region (e.g., Bailey 

 and others 1982). At these 

 and other research centers, 

 the research and demon- 

 strations of forestry prac- 

 tices provided fundamental 

 knowledge on the silvicul- 

 ture of all the major southern 

 pine types -information of 



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