Three-fourths of the sawlog-size area is second 

 growth (table 7), and four-fifths of this is pine (fig. 

 25). 



Figure 25. — Second-growth sawlog-size longleaf pine on the 

 Coastal Plain. This stand is in the period of most rapid board- 

 foot growth, and many of the trees with their long, straight boles 

 are valuable for poles and piles. 



Under-sawlog-size Condition 



Forests with less than 600 board feet per acre have 

 been classified as under-sawlog-size and subdivided 

 into three condition classes: cordwood, reproduc- 

 tion, and clear-cut. 



The cordwood class — stands of small trees with 

 occasional sawlog trees (fig. 26) — comprises 34 per- 

 cent of the South Carolina forest, ranging from 28 

 percent on the northern Coastal Plain to 44 percent 

 on the piedmont. The high proportion on the pied- 

 mont results partly from intensive utilization which 

 is being practiced in this region, and partly from the 



Figure 26. — Cordwood size loblolly pine. The marked trees are 

 removed in thinning. 



large areas of young timber on land that was aban- 

 doned after the boom cotton years of the first World 

 War. Some of these old fields were slow in restock- 

 ing, hence the resulting stands are thin and the trees 

 limby; nevertheless there are many excellent stands 

 of young timber. Pine types predominate in 72 per- 

 cent of the cordwood condition class area on the 

 Coastal Plain and in 82 percent on the piedmont. 



Forest areas bearing only seedlings and sprouts 

 less than 1 inch in diameter were assigned to the re- 

 production class (fig. 27) which occupies 692,400 

 acres, or 6.5 percent of the South Carolina forest. 

 Since most unburned cut-over areas have enough 

 trees exceeding 1 inch in diameter to qualify as cord- 

 wood condition, the reproduction class is found 

 chiefly on abandoned fields that have reseeded with- 

 in the last few years and on recently burned, cut- 

 over areas. 



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