8 CONSERVATIVE LUMBERING AT SEWANEE, TENN. 



conservative management, and indicates as closely as possible the 

 methods ■which should prevail in the treatment of the forest. The 

 working out of the plan was directed by the Bureau of Forestry. 



The working plan for the Sewanee forest does not furnish such 

 specific instructions for the management of timberlands of a similar 

 kind that it can be applied to them without modification and expert 

 assistance. It illustrates, however, what may be done with such 

 timberlands: and especially does it emphasize that lumbering and 

 forestry may be practiced together in the South, as elsewhere, with 

 profit. 



THE UNIVERSITY DOMAIN. 



GENERAL, DESCRIPTION. 



The lands of The University of the South, in and around Sewanee, 

 Franklin County, Tenn., comprise about 7,255 acres, 6,655 acres of 

 which are timberlands. About 5,500 acres lie on the top of a spur of 

 the Cumberland Plateau, lined by sandstone escarpments of varying 

 height, from the base of which coves slope into the valleys below. (PL 

 II, tig. 1.) The elevation of the land is from 800 to 1,900 feet above 

 sea level. 



The seasons are mild, without extremes of temperature. The rain 

 is well distributed throughout the vear. the greatest amount falling- in 

 late winter and early spring. The average annual precipitation is 

 56.51 inches. 



The Bangor limestone which lines the slopes of the coves is capped 

 on the plateau by Lookout sandstone, or, as in the extreme east of the 

 tract, by TTalden sandstone. The soil of the plateau is a loamy sand; 

 that of the coves a clay mixed with sand washed down from the plateau. 

 On the surface of the coves little water appears, except in wet weather; 

 but streams fed from springs on the plateau flow continuous!}- under- 

 ground through the coves into the valleys. 



THE PLATEAU. 



The surface of the plateau is rolling, with hollows where the water 

 has worn away the rock, and ridges where erosion has been resisted. 

 The soil is of poor quality, loose and sandy. It will grow grass, vege- 

 tables, and fruit at a profit, but is not generally adapted to agriculture. 

 The trees of the plateau are all broadleafs, and are of the following 

 species: 



Pignut (Hickory) . Black Jack. Poison Sumach. 



Black Willow. Tulip-tree. Eed Maple. 



Chestnut, Sassafras. [Flowering] Dogwood. 



White Oak. Sweet Gum. Black Gum. 



Post Oak. Sycamore. Sourwood. 



Chestnut Oak. Serviceberry. Mountain Laurel. 



Chinquapin Oak. Locust, Persimmon. 



Scarlet Oak. Ailanthus. 



Yellow Oak. Dwarf Sumach. 



