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of the country (table 156). The North leads with 

 51 percent, the South is next with 38 percent, and 

 the West last with 1 1 percent. 



Among the regions, the Lake States is first with 

 27 percent of the national total, while the South- 

 eastern region is close behind with 23 percent. 

 Other leading regions are the Middle Atlantic with 

 15 percent, West Gulf with 10 percent, and Pacific 

 Northwest with 7 percent. 



Area of Acceptable Plantations About 

 Equally Divided Between Public and 

 Private Ownerships 



About 48 percent of acceptable plantations are 

 on private lands; 52 percent are on public owner- 

 ships (table 157 and fig. 86). The percentage in 

 public ownership is distributed 30 percent on 

 Federal and 22 percent on .State and other public 

 holdings. 



National-forest acceptable plantations make up 

 most of the Federal total, with 27 out of 30 per- 

 cent. They comprise over one-fourth of all 

 acceptable plantations in the United States. The 



States have 17 percent of the national total and 

 the local units of government 5 percent. 



The ownership of acceptable plantations by 

 sections is distributed fairly equally in the North 

 between Federal, local public, and private, with 

 local public holding a slight lead; in the South it 

 is primarily private; and in the West predomi- 

 nantly Federal. 



Planting Success Highest in South 



Early attempts at planting in the United States 

 were beset with serious difficulties. Besides the 

 natural hazards, little knowledge of artificial re- 

 generation was available either from experience or 

 research. Failures were frequent at the outset, 

 but as planting continued better understanding 

 and better techniques were developed. The suc- 

 cess for all past planting in the Nation as a whole 

 is 76 percent (table 158). 



Sectionally, the South leads the North and West 

 with a success of 85 percent, as against 71 percent 

 and 75 percent, respectively. Among the chief 

 reasons for the better showing of the southern sec- 



Figure 86 



