ing private land, about 0.5 million acres, is located in the 

 mountains and is chiefly owned by individuals, estates, 

 and hunting clubs. 



About one-half of the 1.8 million acres in public owner- 

 ship is in national forests, mainly in the Pisgah and Nanta- 

 hala National Forests in the mountain region (fig. 12), but 

 other areas administered by the Forest Service include more 

 than 100,000 acres in the Croatan National Forest in the 

 Coastal Plain and, as of June 30, 1940, nearly 25,000 acres 

 in the Uwharrie Ranger District in the southeastern pied- 

 mont. Parts of North Carolina in national parks include 

 about 227,000 acres in the Great Smoky Mountains 

 National Park and nearly 16,000 in the Blue Ridge Park- 

 way. In 1940 and 1941 several new military reservations 

 were established in the Coastal Plain. The forest area 

 shown in table 4 is that of Fort Bragg, Cherry Point Marine 

 Base, New River Marine Base, and Camp Davis. The 



Cherokee Indian Reservation is situated in the mountains, 

 adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 

 Wildlife refuges in Hyde and Dare Counties, under the 

 supervision of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 

 contain nearly 100,000 acres, less than 15,000 of which 

 is forested. 



The 40,000 acres of forest land in Bladen County, form- 

 erly administered by the Soil Conservation Service, has 

 been classified as a State forest because it has been leased 

 to the North Carolina Department of Conservation and 

 Development for 99 years. Six State parks, ranging in 

 size from 142 to 4,000 acres, have been established to pre- 

 serve areas of natural beauty and of scientific and histori- 

 cal interest, and to provide public recreational areas. 

 University forests include several forested areas in the 

 Coastal Plain and piedmont administered by Duke Univer- 

 sity and North Carolina State College. 



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