FOREST LAND MANAGEMENT 



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Figure 27. — This farm woodland was last cutjor sawlogs in 1925. Excellent seed trees were lejt, but annual burning has destroyed virtually all pine 



trees in the understory. 



Stock while other regions have been losing. The cen- 

 tral and north regions are much alike in their manage- 

 ment records, except that the central region has 9 

 percent of the forest under good or excellent man- 

 agement as contrasted with 5 percent in north 

 Mississippi. 



The Delta has the most consistently poor cutting 

 practice in the State. Only 10 percent of Its privately 

 owned forest is under fair or better management. At 

 least part of the explanation is that the Delta forest 

 is practically all hardwood, and hardwood forest re- 



quires more conscious efTort and skill in cutting to 

 achieve fair results than does pine. 



How Timber Management Differs Among Private 

 Owners 



There are about 146,000 private forest landowners 

 in Mississippi. Private forest management is as varied 

 as the owners are, but grouping owners into occupa- 

 tion and size classes helps to simplify the picture. 



