Figure 19. — Pond pine in a pocosin in the tidewater area. On better sites this type produces good quality saw timber. 



The longleaf and Virginia pine, cove hardwoods, and 

 white pine types together encompass about 13 percent of 

 the forest land. The longleaf pine type, once very exten- 

 sive in eastern North Carolina, has been largely replaced 

 by loblolly pine. Scattered stands of merchantable tim- 

 ber and a few patches of young second growth are to be 

 found in the southern tidewater counties, but the only 



considerable area that shows promise of maintaining its 

 type status is located south of Sanford and west of Fayette- 

 ville. The Virginia pine type extends from the central 

 piedmont northward and westward to occupy the eastern 

 slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains. About half of the 

 type is practically pure pine and the rest is a mixture of 

 Virginia and shortleaf pines with oaks, yellow poplar, and 



Figure 20. — I d-gr ow th red 

 spruce on the Black Mountains 

 in the fisgah National Forest. 



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