Coastal Plain and the piedmont, most of the forest 

 is in small tracts held by farmers, although there are 

 a few large holdings in the mountains. National 

 forests make up almost 5 percent, and State, county, 

 and municipal forests more than 2 percent of the 

 forest area. 



Forest Types 



The distribution of major forest types is shown on 

 the map inside the back cover of this report. Their 

 areas, and proportionate distribution among the three 

 survey units are given in. table 5. 



On the map the major type names are loblolly 

 pine-hardwoods, longleaf pine, bottom-land hard- 

 woods, shortleaf pine-hardwoods, Virginia pine- 

 hardwoods, and mountain hardwoods. Some modi- 

 fications of these have been made in the text for the 

 sake of brevity and convenience. Thus the moun- 

 tain hardwoods are combined with many small 

 bodies of hardwoods on upland soils under the term 

 "upland hardwoods;" the relatively small area of 

 Virginia pine-hardwood is combined with shortleaf 

 pine-hardwood under the name "shortleaf pine 

 type;" and the loblolly pine-hardwood is referred to 

 as "loblolly pine type." The major types are really 

 groups of types, including more or less well defined 

 and characteristic aggregates of species, not belong- 

 ing to the major type, whose areas are too small to 

 be adequately shown on the map. 



Table 4. — Forest-land ownership in South Carolina, 1938^ 



Table 5. — Distribution of the area in each major forest type, by 

 region, condition, and age class, 1936 — Continued 



Ownership 



Area 







Acres 



4.421,000 



5,689,100 



520,000 



51,000 



23,000 



Percent 



Farm 





National forest 



4 9 



Other Federal 



5 











Total 



10,704.100 



100 







1 Unpublished manuscript, Forest Service. 



Table 5. — Distribution of the area in each major forest type, by 

 region, condition, and age class, 1936 



Item 



Loblolly 

 pine 



Longleaf 

 pine 



Shortleaf 

 pine 



Bottom- 

 land 

 hardwoods 



Upland 

 hard- 

 woods 





Acres 

 4,006,200 



Acres 

 1,762,100 



Acres 

 2,026,300 



Acres 

 2,160,200 



Acres 

 723,800 



Region: 



Southern Coast 



Plain 



Northern Coast 



Plain 



Piedmont 



Total 



Condition: 

 Sawlogsize: 

 Old growth... 

 Second growth 

 Under-sawlog-siz. 



Cordwood 



Reproduction. 

 Clearcut 



Total 



Age class (years) : 



Less than 10 



10-29 



30-49 



50-69 



70-89 



90 and older 



Total 



Percent 

 30.6 



17.6 



9.6 



53.9 



28.5 

 7.1 



10.0 

 25.5 

 32.0 

 20.6 



54.4 

 45.6 



43.7 

 6.7 

 3.4 



15.3 

 32.4 

 30.0 

 11.6 

 5.2 

 5.5 



6.7 

 93.3 



7.7 

 44.2 



43.0 



4.7 



.4 



4.3 

 35.8 

 31.5 

 17.5 



6.1 



Perce, It 

 32.0 



22.8 

 6.0 



9.6 

 8.6 

 9.5 

 14.8 

 15.1 

 42.4 



30.4 

 53.2 



17.2 

 20.7 



52.8 

 9.2 



16.4 

 17.8 

 13.2 

 31.7 



Each major type varies considerably in the pro- 

 portions of different tree species. Average propor- 

 tions of the species in the several types in terms of 

 cubic volume are shown in table 6. 



Loblolly Pine Type 



The loblolly pine (fig. 19) is South Carolina's most 

 important forest type, both in size and value. It 

 occupies slightly more than 4 million acres, or 38 per- 

 cent of the State's forest. 



The loblolly pine type covers 41 percent of the 

 forest in the southern Coastal Plain and 46 percent 

 in the northern Coastal Plain. On the piedmont, it 

 occupies 22 percent of the forest land but is confined 

 to the eastern half, where it is the dominant type. 

 The loblolly pine areas include pure stands, mixed 

 stands of loblolly and hardwoods (in which the pine 

 is predominant), and small, often pure stands of 

 pond pine. Loblolly pine forms about 69 percent of 

 the cubic volume in the type; the remainder is short- 

 leaf, pond, and longleaf pines, blackgum, sweetgum, 

 oaks, and other associated species. 



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