that demand, inflicted minimal 

 damage on the forest overall. 



While towns were being 

 built, migrating settlers were 

 clearing lands for farming. If 

 the soils became depleted, 

 these people simply moved 

 on to try their luck over the 

 next horizon. In the southern 

 yellow pine belt, seed trees 

 left along the edges of 



clearings seeded in 

 abandoned lands. 



The naturally seeded pine 

 stands that survived the era 

 of animal logging supported 

 the South's gum-naval stores, 

 small sawmills, and pole and 

 piling operations for 

 generations (Hartman 1981, 

 unpubl.). 



