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FOEEST CONDITIONS IN LOUISIANA. 



Table 2. — Standing yellow pine in Louisiana. 

 [Billions of board feet. Thus, 67.7=67,700,000,000 board feet.] 



Species. 



Total. 



East of 



Mississippi 



River. 



North of 

 Red River. 



South of 

 Red River. 



Longleaf pine 



Shortleaf and loblolly pine 



Total yellow pine . . . 



52.5 

 15.2 



10.9 

 .6 



7.5 

 10.1 



34.1 

 4.5 



67.7 



11.5 



17.6 



38.6 



More than three- fourths of the total stand of yellow pine in 

 Louisiana is longleaf. In the group of parishes south of the Red 

 River, including portions of Natchitoches, Rapides, and Avoyelles 

 north of the river, longleaf forms more than half of the total stand 

 of all species. In the group of parishes east of the Mississippi River 

 (Florida parishes) longleaf forms almost the entire pine stand. 

 West of Washington, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Livingston 

 Parishes the original stand was chiefly shortleaf pine, but most of 

 the land has been cut over and is now in cultivation. There is very 

 little pine in West Carroll, Richland, and Franklin Parishes, which 

 are included in the group north of the Red River. What pine there 

 is grows chiefly in Franklin Parish, and is in greater part shortleaf. 

 Some pine is found in Acadia Parish in the middle of the prairie 

 region. The amount of pine outside the groups shown on the map, 

 however, is negligible. The dots on the map represent the 82 yellow 

 pine mills each of which cuts 10,000,000 board feet or more annually. 

 One of these mills cuts some cypress, and others may cut some hard- 

 woods, but most of them cut pine exclusively. 



Table 3 shows the estimated stand of cypress and hardwoods in 

 Louisiana, divided chiefly with reference to the alluvial region com- 

 prising the Mississippi flood plain north and south and the minor 

 valleys of the Red, Sabine, and Pearl Rivers. The map (fig. 2) 

 shows the parishes included in each group. 



Table 3. — Standing cypress and hardwoods in Louisiana. 



[Billions of board feet. Thus, 15.7=15,700,000,000 board feet.] 



Species. 



Total. 



North 

 Mississippi 



River 

 parishes. 



South 

 Mississippi 



River 

 parishes. 



Red, 



Sabine, 

 and Pearl 



River 

 parishes. 



Other 

 parishes. 



Cypress 



15.7 

 36.4 



0.6 

 13.8 



14.3 

 9.5 



0.7 

 10.9 



0.1 



Hardwoods 



2.2 







While both cypress and hardwoods are confined chiefly to the al- 

 luvial region, cypress brakes are found also in the yellow-pine par- 

 ishes, and hardwoods grow on creek bottoms almost everywhere and 

 in mixture with pine on the uplands. The areas on the map left blank 

 are either prairie land or sea marsh, which contain no timber of im- 



