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Table 12. — Commercial Jorest land area in Mississippi by degree of stocking, Jorest type, and Survey region, 1946—48 — Continued 



SOUTH 



Forest type 



All stocking 



Well stocked 



Medium 

 stocked 



Poorly 

 stocked 



Nonstocked 



Softwood types: 



Thousand 

 acres 



853.3 

 2,065.8 



Thousand 

 acres 

 324.5 

 238.1 



Thousand 

 acres 

 336.7 

 645.8 



Thousand 

 acres 

 184.1 

 735.7 



Thousand 

 acres 



8.0 



Longleal-slash pine _ _. - - 



446 2 







Total _ .- 



2,919.1 



562.6 



982.5 



919.8 



454.2 







Hardwood types: 



543.1 



246.3 



1,037.4 



143.9 



8.9 



222.0 



229.1 



36.5 

 374.0 



144.3 



62.8 



299.4 



25.8 



Upland hardwood _ __ 



138.1 





142. U 







Total - 



1.826.8 



374.8 



639.6 



506.5 



3U5.9 







All types -- __---- __ 



4,745.9 



937.4 



1,622.1 



1,426.3 



760.1 







DELTA 



Softwood types: 



Loblolly-shortleaf pine. 

 Cedar 



Total . 



Hardwood types: 



Bottom-land hardwoods 



Upland hardwood 



Upland hardwood-pine „ 



Total 



All types 



42.0 

 16.3 



26.8 

 5.9 





12.8 

 6.6 



2.4 



3.8 







58.3 



32.7 



3.8 



19.4 



2.4 



1,601.5 



3C1.7 



78.9 



475.0 

 141.5 

 41.9 



881.3 



124.0 



34.6 



166.9 

 36.2 



78.3 



2.4 







1,982.1 



658.4 



1,039.9 



203.1 



80.7 



2,040.4 



691.1 



1,043.7 



222. S 



83.1 



